HomeMy WebLinkAbout1513 ORDINANCE NO. 1513
AN ORDINANCE relating to and providing for an occupation tax on persons, firms
or corporations, engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, from
place to place within the City of Bremerton, over regular routes and on regular
schedules, repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith;
defining offenses, anal providing penalties.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. The provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed an exercise of
the power of the city of Bremerton to tax for revenue.
Section 2. ~Every person, firm or corporation, engaging as a common carrier in
the intra-city business of carrying passengers for hire in the City of Bremerton
over regular routes and on regular schedules, shall pay to the C. ity of Bremerton
annually, on or before the 1st day of July of each year, an excese tax in the s~m
of two per cent (~%) of the gross revenue of such person, firm or corporation, durin[
the next preceding calendar year, to-wit, two per cent of its gross revenue for the
period from January 1st to December 31st, inclusive, of the year preceding the year
in which payment is made.
Section 3. That at or prior to the time of payment of such tax, and prior to
the first day of July in each year, the person or the manager of the firm or corp-
oration engaging in such business, shall file an affidavit with the City Clerk of
the C~ty of Bremerton, stating the gross revenue of such person, firm or corporation
for the next preceding calendar year, and the City of Bremerton may accept such
affidavit as fixing the amount of tax to be paid, or may make an independent audit
of the books and records of such person, firm or corporation, to determine the
amount of such tax. Such tax shall be paid to the City Treasurer, who shall execute
his receipt therefor.
Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation engage~ in a business of the type
described in Section 2 of this ordinance guring the calendar year 1941 and still
engaging in such bus, ness in the City of Bremerton, shall immediately file the
affidavit mentioned in Section 3 of this ordinance, and shall immediately pay a tax
of two per cent (2%) of its gross revenue d~ring the calendar year 1941, to the
City Treasurer and receive his receipt therefor, unless such person, firm or corp-
oration, shall have paid and the City of Bremerton shall have accepted the amount
due on July l, 1942, pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance No. 876 of the City of
Bremerton, ~n which event the amount so paid shall be credited upon the amo~mt of
tax; the payment of such tax shall be considered a necessary prereq'uisite to the
right to Uo business in the City of Bremerton for the fiscal year July 1,1942,
to June 30, 1943.
Section 5. The routes, schedules, fares and services of such person, firm or
corporation, shall be subject to regulation by the Department of Public Service of
the State of Washington, pursuant to the Public Service Co~nission laws of the
State of Washington.
Section 6. That Section 3 of Ordinance No.876 of the City of Bremerton, entitle(
"An ordinance regulating common carriers of passengers upon the public streets of
the City of Bremerton, in motor propelled vehicles, providing for the licensing of
such vehicles, prescribing regulations for the same an~ fixing penalties an~ re-
pealing Ordinances No.772 and No.829," passed July ll, 19~8, be and the said Section
3 of said ordinance, together with any ordinance or parts of ordinance in conflict
herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.
S~/~?/~l~Section 7. ~ny person, firm or corporation, and the manager in chapge of any
firm or corporation, failing to comply with or violating any of the provisions of
this ord~.nance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of
not exceeding the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars, and by impr~so~ument in
the city jail for a period of not exceeding ninety (90) days, an~ after any such
failure of compliance or violation of the provisions hereof, shall have existed for
a period of ten (lC) ~ays, each ten day the continuance of such failure of compliance
or violation shall be 8eemed a separate offense.
PASSED and approved by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by
the Mayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, this
16th day of December, 1942.