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:
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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."
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"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
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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
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