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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance_315_10/26/1982• ORDINANCE N0. 315 • AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, FLORIDA AMEPJDING CHAPTER 11 OF THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA CODE RELATING TO LICENSES BY PROVIDING FOR REGISTRATION AND FOR A CERTIFICATION FEE FOR BUSINESSES LOCATED OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE LIMITS WHICH CONDUCT BUSINESS WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA; BY PROVIDING FURTHER FOR THE APPLICATION OF LICENSE TAXES TO THE INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION: PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, FLORIDA; Section 1. Chapter 11 of the Code of Ordinancesof the Village is hereby amended by providing a new Section 11-26.1 to read as follows: "Section 11-26.1 Registration required. Any person who engages in any business, occupation or profession within the Village not required to be licensed under the provisions of this Chapter, shall be certified with the Licensing Officer by executing an information form provided by the Village. The purpose of such certification is to provide the Village with information concerning those who are doing business within the Village and, where appropriate, to assure the Village that such persons are licensed county wide by the County of Palm Beach, Florida. The fee for this certification shall be $2,00 ( Two Dollars). Anyone violating this provision by failing to register the required information with the lice~~sing office shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree." Section 2. Section 11-27 is hereby amended by adding (thereto the following language; "The tax provided for in this Section for architects, auctioneers, auditors or accountants, dentists, draftsmen, civil engineers, lawyers, osteopaths, chiropractors, chiropodists, phrenologists, physicians or surgeons, real estate salesmen, or other similar professions, shall be construed to mean that each individual shall pay the tax herein provided, whether practicing by himself or in partnership, or employed by another. Section 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention Hof the Village of Tequesta that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, • clauses, and phrases of this Ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Ordinance. Section 4. Permission to codify this Ordinance is hereby granted. Section 5. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Councilmember Lee M. Brown who moved i is adoption . The motion was seconded by Councilmember Thomas J. Little and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows: FOR ADOPTION AGAINST ADOPTION Lee M. Brown Thomas J. Beddow Thomas J. Little W.H. Mapes, Jr. Carlton D. Stoddard I The P-1ayor thereupon declared the Ordinance duly passed and adopted this 26 day of October A.D., 1982. (ATTEST: i~~,~Y - , MAYOR OF TE~IitST~i age pier