94.110. License taxes on certain businesses. - Missouri Statutes

License taxes on certain businesses.

94.110. The council shall have power and authority to levyand collect a license tax on wholesale houses, auctioneers,architects, druggists, grocers, banks, brokers, wholesalemerchants, merchants of all kinds, confectioners, deliverytrucks, ice trucks, transfer trucks, laundry wagons, milk wagons,merchant delivery companies, cigar and tobacco stands, hayscales, wood dealers, coal dealers, lumber dealers, real estateagents, loan companies, abstracters, abstract agencies, loanagents, collection agencies, undertakers, public buildings,office buildings, public halls, public grounds, concerts,photographers in office or upon the streets, canvassers, artists,drummers, patent right dealers, automobile agents and dealers,automobile accessory dealers, insurance companies, insuranceagents, taverns, hotels, rooming houses, boardinghouses, healthschools, telephone companies, street contractors, paper hangercontractors, painting contractors, plastering contractors, andall subcontractors, flour mills, express company agencies,wagons, buggies, carriages, tinners, barbers, barbershops, hairdressers, hair dressing shops, whether conducted in connectionwith other business or separate beauty parlors, tailors,florists, nursery stock agents, book binders, monument dealersand agencies, manufacturing agents, shoe cobbler shops, storagewarehouses, shoe shining parlors, newspaper offices, job printingplants, ready-to-wear clothing agencies, tailor-made clothingagencies, sewing machine agents, piano and organ dealers andagents, foreign coffee and tea dealers and agents, and all othervocations whatsoever, and fix the rate of carriage of persons andwagonage, drayage and cartage of property; and to levy andcollect a license tax and regulate hawkers, peddlers,pawnbrokers, restaurants, butchers, wholesale butchers,bathhouses and masseurs, lunch stands, lunch counters, lunchwagons, soft drink and ice cream stand and vendors, ice creamparlors, peanut and popcorn stands, and stands of every kind,hucksters, opera houses, moving picture shows, private parks,public lectures, public meetings, baseball parks, outdooradvertising, horse and cattle dealers, stockyards, wagon yards,auto yards, oil stations, wholesale and retail, inspectors,gaugers, mercantile agents, manufacturing and other corporations,or institutions, machine shops, blacksmith shops, foundries,sewer contractors, building contractors, stone contractors,plumbing contractors, brick contractors, cement contractors,sidewalk contractors, bridge contractors, and all subcontractors,street railroad cars, light, power and water companies, gascompanies, laundries, laundry agencies, ice plants and ice plantagencies, ice dealers, omnibuses, automobiles, automobiletrailers, tractors, carts, drays, milk wagons, laundry wagons,delivery wagons, transfer and job wagons, ice wagons, and allother vehicles, traveling and auction stores, plumbers, pressingestablishments, installment houses and agencies, produce andpoultry dealers, feather renovators, bakers and bakeries, bakerydelivery wagons, and delivery autos, bottling works, dye works,cleaning establishments, sand plants, steam fitters, corndoctors, chiropodists, hackmen, taxicabs, buses, draymen, omnibusdrivers, porters, ferries, and to regulate the same, and thelanding thereof, within the limits of the city, and all otherspursuing like occupations; and to levy and collect a license tax,regulate, restrain, prohibit and suppress ordinaries, moneybrokers, money changers, intelligence and employment offices andagencies, public masquerades, balls, street exhibitions, dancehalls, fortune tellers, pistol galleries, shooting galleries,palmists, private venereal hospitals, museums, menageries,equestrian performances, fluoroscopic views, picture shows,telescopic views, lung testers, muscle developers, magnifyingglasses, ten pin alleys, ball alleys, bowling alleys, billiardtables, pool and other tables, miniature golf courses, theatricalor other exhibitions, boxing and sparring exhibitions, shows andamusements, amusement parks, and the sales of unclaimed goods byexpress companies or common carriers, auto wrecking shops, billposters, junk dealers, porters, carnival and street fairs,circuses and shows, for parade and exhibition, or both, skatingrinks, and runners and solicitors for steamboats, cars, stages,taxicabs, hotels, rooming houses, boardinghouses, bathhouses,masseurs, health schools, and all other vocations and businesswhatsoever, and all others pursuing like occupations.

(RSMo 1939 § 6986, A.L. 1943 p. 701, A.L. 1953 p. 295)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 6840; 1919 § 8322; 1909 § 9253

CROSS REFERENCE:

Imposition of tax or license fee on certain professions prohibited--imposition of tax or fee prohibited unless business office maintained, RSMo 71.620