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Ord 1636 - Amending Chapter 15 of the Town Code clarifying the list of professional and semiprofessional occupationsORDINANCE NO. 1636 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHARTER 15 OF THE TOWN CODE CLARIFYING THE LIST OF PROFESSIONAL AND SEMIPROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS The Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos hereby ORDAINS: <nrtinn 7 Section 15 -1 of the Los Gatos Town Code is amended to read as follows: Sec. 15 -1. Definitions For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: "Business" means professions, trades and occupations and every kind of calling carried on for profit or livelihood, including the business of renting or leasing apartments. "Fixed place of business" means the premises occupied for the particular purpose of conducting the business thereat, and regularly kept open for that purpose, with a competent person in attendance for the purpose of attending to such business. Included in such term is the premises rented or leased by persons owning apartments located in the Town. "Gross receipts" means the total amount of the sale price of all sales and the total amount charged or received for the performance of any act, service or employment of whatever nature it may be, for which a charge is made or credit allowed, whether or not such service, act or employment is done as a part of or in connection with the sale of materials, goods, wares or merchandise. Included in such term shall be all receipts, cash, credits and property of any kind or nature, and any amount for which credit is allowed by the seller to the purchaser without any deduction therefrom on account of the cost of the property sold, the cost of the materials used, labor, or service costs, interest paid or payable or losses or other expenses whatsoever. Excluded from such term shall be cash discounts allowed and taken on sales, any tax required by law to be included in, or added to, the purchase price and collected from the consumer or purchaser, and such part of the sale price of property returned by purchasers upon recission of the contract of sale as is refunded either in cash or by credit. "Home occupation" means an occupation customarily carried on by the resident of a dwelling as a secondary use within the same dwelling and in connection with which there is no person employed, no sound audible beyond such dwelling, no display, no advertising and no selling of a commodity upon the premi se s. "Jobbing business" means any business conducted solely for the purpose of selling goods, wares or merchandise in job lots to wholesale merchants for resale at wholesale to the trade by such wholesale merchants. "Person" means any domestic or foreign association, syndicate, joint stock corporation, partnership of every kind, club, business or common law trust, society, and individual transacting and carrying on any business in the Town. "Quarter" means a period of three calendar months. The quarters begin on the first day of January, April, July and October of each year. The quarter shall include fractions thereof. "Retail estate broker" means the managing broker and/or partner of any real estate office. "Retail business" means any business conducted for the purpose of selling, or offering to sell, any goods, wares or merchandise, other than as a part of a "wholesale business" and "jobbing business." -2- "Vehicle" means any device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public street or highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. "Wholesale business" means any business conducted solely for the purpose of selling goods, wares or merchandise in wholesale lots to retail merchants for resale at retail to the trade by such retail merchants. Section 18 -28.38 of the Los Gatos Town Code is amended to read as follows: Sec. 15- 28.38. Professional and semiprofessional Occupations. Per profession or semiprofessional person ...................... $100.00 Additional per employee ........ ... .......................... 10.00 Professional or semiprofessional business or service occupations include, but are riot limited to, the following: Accountant Advertising counsel Appraiser Architect Artist Assayer Attorney -at -law Auditor Bacteriologist Broker, stock or bond Chemist Chiropodist Chiropractor Dentist Designer or decorator Detective of investigative personnel Draftsperson Drugless practitioner Electrologist Engineer: civil, mining, electrical, construction Engineer-: structural, consulting, mechanical, hydraulic Engraver Feed, grain and fruit broker Geologist Illustrator or showcard writer Landscape architect Lapidary Lithographer Masseuse or masseur Oculist, optician or optometrist -3- Osteopath Physician Real estate brokers Surgeon Surveyor Taxidermist Veterinarian X -ray, dental or medical laboratory Section 2. This ordinance takes effect 30 days after it is adopted. Within 15 days after this ordinance is adopted, the Town Clerk shall cause it to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the Town. The above and foregoing ordinance was duly and regularly introduced at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos, California, held on the 17th day of December , 1984. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OFF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, at a regul -dr meeting held this 7th day of January. 1985; by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS Eric D. Carlson, Terrence J. Daily and Mayor.Joanne Benjamin NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS None ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS Thomas J. Ferrito and Brent N. Ventura ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS None SIGNED: MAPR OF E TOWN OF LOS 'ATOS ATTEST: CLERK OF THE TOWN - OF LOS G OS -4-