Sec. 6-2. Reserved.

Editor's note-Ord. No. 1992-349, § 1, adopted Nov. 3, 1992, amended this Code by repealing § 6-2, pertaining to levy in police jurisdiction, as derived from an ordinance adopted Dec. 13, 1977, § 2.

Sec. 6-3. License issuance fee.

In addition to the licenses levied by this article, each person obtaining a license is required to pay to the clerk of the city a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for the issuance of each license. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 8; Ord. No. 1994-494, §§ 1, 2, 12-6-94)

Sec. 6-4. License year.

All licenses levied by this article are for the calendar year except where otherwise specifically stated. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 13)

Sec. 6-5. Due and delinquent dates; delinquency assessment.

All licenses fixed and levied hereby shall be due on January second of each calendar year and shall be delinquent after January thirty-first of the year for which such license is due. Any person failing to obtain and pay for such license required hereby before the last day of January of any year shall be required to pay and there is hereby fixed and assessed an additional sum equal to fifteen (15) per cent of the amount of such license. This fifteen (15) per cent penalty is due beginning February 1 and shall continue to be due through the last day of February. Beginning March 1 and each month thereafter, an additional five (5) per cent penalty shall be added each month until such time as the license is paid in full. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 3; Ord. No. 1985-22, 11-19-85; Ord. No.1992-349, § II, 11-3-92)

Sec. 6-6. Half year license.

Licenses hereby levied may be issued for a half-year if obtained after the first day of July of any calendar year and the amount for 'he half year shall be one-half of the amount of license levied for a full calendar year. Ord. of 12-13-77, § 7) State law reference-Half year license, Code of Ala. 1975, § 11-51-92(a).

Sec. 6-7. Levy carries over from year to year.

The license hereby levied, and as amended, shall remain in full force and effect and apply to each calendar year hereafter from year to year without the adoption of any other ordinance. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 11)

Sec. 6-8. License constitutes privilege; nontransferable and nonassignable.

No license obtained shall contain any element of contract, but shall be a mere grant or privilege subject to alteration, amendment or revocation at the pleasure of the city and no such license shall be transferable or assignable. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 5)

Sec. 6-9. License for each business.

Any person dealing in two (2) or more of the articles or engaged in two (2) or more of the businesses or having two (2) or more business locations or callings or professions enumerated in this article shall obtain and pay for a license for each business, business location, vocation, calling, profession or occupation. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 6; Ord. No. 1992-349, § II, 11-3-92) State law reference--Similar provision, Code of Ala. 1975, § 11-51-95.

Sec. 6-10. Rendering sworn statements.

In all cases where the amount to be paid for a license depends upon the amount of capital invested or value of goods, stocks, furniture and fixtures or amount of sales or receipts, it shall be the duty of the person applying for such license to render to the city clerk a sworn statement of such capital or sales, or receipts of business, or the value of such stocks, goods, furniture and fixtures, and such other proof, including insurance carried, as the city clerk shall demand, to show the actual amount of capital invested, value of goods, stock, furniture and fixtures, and said city clerk shall not be required to receipt for any money until such proofs are furnished and the person applying submits his books of accounts to inspection and examination by the city clerk, or his auditor, either before or after a license is issued and may be refused a license until he complies with the demand of the city clerk for such inspection of such books. Any person subject to such license failing to render the sworn statement required by this section or failing to submit his said books for inspection or examination shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in sum not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and each day's failure shall constitute a separate offense and be punishable as such. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 9)

Sec. 6-11. Failure to obtain license.

Any person who shall engage in or carry on any business or do any act in the city or within the police jurisdiction thereof for which a license is required under this article without having first paid for and taken out the license therefor, in the manner provided by this article, shall be guilty of doing business without a license and shall, on conviction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense, and may be sentenced to hard labor upon the streets or in the work house for not more thin thirty (30) days. Further, each separate day for which said business is carried on shall constitute a separate offense until said license is procured or taken out. (Ord. of 12-13-77, § 10) State law reference-Punishment limited, Code of Ala, 1975, § 11-.51-93.

Sec. 6-12. Application of tax proceeds.

(a) 'rax proceeds within the city shall be applied for payment ot' the principal of and the interest on the warrants of the city at the respective maturities of said principal and interest, to the extent they are not paid from other funds of the City of Jasper.

(b) One-fourth(/4) of the net tax proceeds within the city shall be applied for the following public school purposes in the foltowing order: (i) payment of the principal of and interest on secu'ties of the city that have been or may hereafter be issued to pay the cost of acquiring, providing and constructing public school buildings in the city and for payment of which the tax proceeds within the city may be pledged, in the order in which such pledges may be made or in such other order of priority or priority as maybe provided for in the proceedings making such pledges; and (ii) payment of costs of operation and maintenance of public schools in the city.

(c) The residue of the tax proceeds within the city remaining after compliance with the provisions of the foregoing paragraph (a) of this section, and after setting aside one-fourth (1/4) of the net tax proceeds in the city for public school purposes in accordance with the foregoing paragraph (b) of this section, shall be paid into the general fund of the city and applied for such purposes as the governing body of the city may from time to time direct. The tax proceeds in the police jurisdiction shall be applied for payment of costs of police and fire protection in the territory within the police jurisdiction of the city and outside its corporate limits. (Ord. No. 1986-32, §§ 1-3, 5-6-86) Editor's note-Ord. No. 1986-32, §§ 1-3, adopted May 6, 1986, did not specifically amend the Code; hence, inclusion of said provisions herein as § 6-12 was at the discretion of the editor.

Secs. 6-13 - 6-19. Reserved.