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Acupressure/acupressure technicians Ambulance operator means any means, unless otherwise defined by person or entity who for any monetary the State of California, the stimulation or other consideration, or as an or sedation of specific meridian points incident to any other occupation, and trigger points neat the surface of transports in one or more ambulances the body by the use of pressure applied one or more persons needing medical by an acupressurist in order to prevent attention or services. or modify the perception of pain or to normalize physiological functions, Ambulance vehicle means a motor including pain control, in the treatment vehicle specially constructed, Billiard room means any place open of certain diseases or dysfunctions of modified, equipped, or arranged for the to the public where billiards, bagatelle the body. purpose of transporting sick, injured, or pool is played, or in which any convalescent, infirm, or otherwise billiard, bagatelle or pool table is Adult business means any business incapacitated persons, authorized by kept and persons are permitted to which, because minors are excluded the state as an emergency vehicle, play or do play thereon, whether any by virtue of their age as a prevailing and used, or having the potential compensation or reward is charged for business practice, is not customarily for being used, in emergency or the use of such table or not. “Billiard open to the general public, including, nonemergency medical service to the room” does not include a place having but not limited to, an adult arcade, public, regardless of level of service. not more than one coin-operated adult bookstore, adult theater, cabaret, An ambulance includes a ground pool or billiard table, which table is love parlor, model studio, nude studio, ambulance and EMS Aircraft. maintained as an incident to some sexual catharsis center, sexual other type of business activity.” encounter shop, sexual novelty store, Ambulance driver means any person or any other similar use wherein the who drives an ambulance in which any Boarding house means a dwelling preponderant business is the offering person needing medical attention or unit where lodging is provided, with or of services, materials and/or products services is transported. without meals for compensation, for which have as their dominant theme five (5) or more persons. the sexual arousal, sexual gratification Apartment house means any building and/or sexual stimulation of a or portion thereof which is designed, Bookstore means any premises customer. This definition does not built, rented, let or hired out to be which has a substantial or significant apply, shall be interpreted to apply, to occupied, or which is occupied as the portion of its stock in trade consisting any business conducted, operated by home or residence of three (3) or more of books, magazines, periodicals, or employing licensed chiropractors, families living independently of each pamphlets or newspapers. licensed physicians, licensed other and doing their cooking in the therapists, licensed psychologists, building. Carnival game booth means a booth licensed social workers or licensed located within a carnival, circus marriage counselors, or state certified Auto body & fender means the or travel show for diverse public practitioners or therapists when business of automotive body repair entertainment and amusement performing professional services under and/or automotive fender repair. which may include, but is not limited or pursuant to the respective license or to, games or tests of strength, skill, certificate held. chance, or other capacity.

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Circus/travel show means a public down sale,” “closing sale,” “closing- of a sale as defined in this section, spectacle of diverse entertainment and out sale,” “creditors’ committee sale,” or notice of intention to conduct any amusement which may include, but is “creditors’ sale,” “damaged goods such sale, including but not limited not limited to: merry-go-rounds, ferris sale,” “end sale,” “executor’s sale,” to oral or written announcements wheels, or other similar mechanical “final days sale,” “fire sale,” “forced out by proclamation or outcry, apparatus or rides; menageries, trained sale,” “forced out of business sale,” newspaper advertisement, magazine animal acts, or animal rides, petting or “insolvent sale,” “insurance salvage advertisement, handbill, written or similar animal exhibitions; acrobatic or sale,” “last days sale,” “lease expires printed notice, printed display, billboard other physical feats or demonstrations sale,” “lease expiring sale,” “liquidation display, posters, radio, or television by performers; sideshows, games sale,” “loss of lease sale,” “mortgage announcement. or tests of strength, skill, or other sale,” “outselling sale,” “receiver’s capacity; and public eating places, sale,” “removal sale,” “reorganization Coin game means any coin-operated for which a fee or payment may be sale,” “salvage sale,” “selling-out sale,” machine of skill open to the public, charged for entry into the location, “smoke sale,” “smoke and water sale,” which is not operated as a part of an viewing of any such entertainment or “trustee’s sale,” “quitting business activity licensed pursuant to a circus or amusement, participation in any of its sale,” “wholesale closing-out sale,” carnival. activities, or purchase of food, drink or “we quit sale,” “we give up sale,” merchandise. “fixtures for sale,” or advertised by any Cold storage warehouse means other expression or characterization a place artificially refrigerated to a Close out sale means any sale of, closely similar to any of the foregoing temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or any offer to sell, to the public, or and calculated to convey the same or below. It does not include any any group thereof, goods, wares or meaning; and 3) All sales advertised such place in a private home, hotel, merchandise on order, in transit or in in a manner calculated to indicate restaurant, or exclusively retail stock, in connection with a declared that the goods, ware or merchandise establishment not storing articles of purpose as set forth by advertising to be sold, or any part thereof, have food for other purposes. “Article of that such sale is anticipatory to or been involved in any business food” means any article of food used to avoid the termination, liquidation, failure, to have been derived from for human consumption. It includes revision, windup, discontinuance, a business which has failed, been fresh meat and fresh meat products removal, dissolution or abandonment closed, discontinued or liquidated; (except in process of manufacture), of the business or that portion of the and 4) All sales accompanied by fresh and dried fruits or vegetables, business conducted at any location, notices of advertising indicating fish, shellfish, game, poultry, eggs, and: 1) All sales advertised in any that the premises are available for butter and cheese, but not malt manner calculated to convey to purchase or lease or are otherwise beverages. the public the belief that upon the to be vacated; and 5) All sales disposal of the goods to be placed accompanied by advertising indicating on sale, the business or that portion a business emergency or failure thereof being conducted at any affecting the seller or any previous location, will cease, be removed, be holder of the goods to be disposed interrupted, discontinued or changed; of. For purposes of the definition and; 2) All sales advertised to be of “close out sale,” “advertise”,” “adjuster’s sale,” “adjustment sale,” “advertisements,” “advertising,” “assignee’s sale,” “bankrupt sale,” “publish,” and “publication” mean any “benefit of administrator’s sale,” and all means, whether oral, written, “benefit of creditors sale,” “benefit lettered or printed, used for conveying of trustee’s sale,” “building coming to the public notice of the conduct BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS

Dance includes the following group in any three-month period; 7) “Entertainment” means: 1) Any definitions: 1) “Dancing club” means “Taxi dance hall” means any place at act, play, review, pantomime, scene, any club or association of persons which a public dance is conducted song, dance act, song and dance act, which conducts dances, other than where partners are provided for or poetry recitation, conducted or public dances, for its members or bona dancing or social purposes by those participated in by any professional fide guests. It does not include any conducting managing, maintaining entertainer in or upon any premises to licensed adult business licensed; or operating such public dance for which the public is admitted, or in any 2) “Dancing school” means any school, patrons or other guests, and for which proprietary club. The term “professional class or classes wherein dancing such patrons or guests pay a fee or entertainer” means a person or persons is the principal subject taught; 3) other consideration; 8) “Taxi dancer” who engage for livelihood or gain in the “Private dance” means a gathering means a partner who is, for a fee or presentation of entertainment; or 2) of persons in or upon any premises other consideration, furnished to a The exhibition of motion pictures as an where dancing is permitted, either as patron or other guest at a taxi dance incident to a public eating place or to the main purpose for such gathering hall; and 9) “Youth dance” means a premises which possess or which are or as an incident to some other public dance or private dance to which required to possess a retailer’s on-sale purpose, and to which premises only persons between the ages of 15 and license as defined in Section 23034 of members, pupils or bona fide guests of 21 years are admitted as participants. the Business and Professions Code.; or a particular club, organization, dancing 3) Fashion or style show except when club or dancing school are admitted; Door-to-Door Solicitation means the act conducted by a bona fide nonprofit club provided, however, that dancing by the of any person traveling by foot, or organization, and when conducted occupants of and guests at a private vehicle, or any other type of solely as a fundraising activity for residence shall not be considered a conveyance, who goes from house to charitable purposes. “Entertainment” “private dance” as defined herein, and house, or business to business, for does not include: 1) Mechanical music no license shall be required; any purpose, including but not limited alone; or 2) Instrumental music alone; 4) “Public dance” means a gathering to: engaging in door-to-door sales, except between the hours of 2:00 of persons in or upon any premises conducting a survey or poll, soliciting a.m., and 6:00 a.m.; or 3) Dancing where dancing is permitted, either as opinions, requesting donations or participated in only by customers; the main purpose for such gathering distribution or disseminating however, this definition does not or as an incident to some other purpose, information or materials. exempt exhibition dancing by a person and to which premises the public is receiving compensation for such admitted; 5) “Public dance hall” means exhibition dancing. a place where dancing is permitted, whether for profit or not for profit, and “Entertainment manager” means to which the public is admitted either the person on the premises of with or without charge, or at which the the entertainment serving as the public is allowed to participate in the responsible party during which the dancing, either with or without charge; establishment is open. 6) “Special dance” means an individual public dance or private dance “Exhibition (fee for entry)” means a conducted by any person, dancing public display of works of art or other club, dancing school or association items of interest, held in an art gallery of persons, dancing clubs or dancing or museum or at a trade fair, for a fee; schools, which dance, if authorized, or a public display or demonstration of will result in not more than three such a particular skill for a fee. dances being held by such person or BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS

“Filling station” means the business of “Gun dealer” means any person, firm “Hotel” means any building or portion selling or distributing, either wholesale or corporation who sells or otherwise thereof with access provided through or retail, propane gas, cryogenics, transfers to the public any pistol, a common entrance, lobby or hallway butane gas, or other flammable revolver, rifle, shotgun, or other firearm, to guest rooms, and which rooms are vaporous gas, distillate, kerosene, including those persons required by designed, intended to be used or are gasoline or refined petroleum products Section 12070(a) of the California used, rented or hired out as temporary or from a filling station, tank truck or Penal Code to obtain a license overnight accommodations for guests. trailer, or stationary tank. under California Penal Code Section 12071. “Gun dealer” also includes “Launderette/laundromat” means “Food establishment” the business any person, firm or corporation who a business premises equipped with of selling liquids or edibles for human purchases, takes in trade or accepts individual clothes washing and drying consumption from wayside stands on consignment from the public any machines either coin operated or upon or adjacent to public highways, or firearm of any type, including, but not attendant operated for the use of retail from stores or other established places limited to pistols, revolvers, rifles and customers, exclusive of laundry facilities of business except public eating places, shotguns. provided as an accessory use in an or exclusively by dispensing machine. apartment house or apartment hotel. “Hay, grain, & feed” means the “Game arcade” means any premises business of buying, selling or “Livery stable” means any place where where there are maintained five (5) or otherwise dealing in hay, straw, alfalfa, horses are boarded or rented or where more games of skill or amusement grain, grain products used or intended riding lessons are given. whereby machines, contests, devices, to be used for livestock food, or any games, tables, boards or amusements, stock food other than manufactured or the operation of which is permitted, proprietary food. controlled, obtained, conducted, allowed, authorized or made possible “Health gym/spa” means any place by the depositing of coin, plate, disc, which has therein a swimming pool, slug or key into any slot, crevice or soaking facility such as a spa, tub or other opening or receptacle, or by the any other device in which a person payment of any fee or fees, and where can soak, a steamroom, a sauna or said machine, contest, device game, bathing place, including shower baths. table, board or amusement tests or A “health gym/spa” does not include: provided a means of testing the skill of 1) A private residence, condominium, the operator thereof with reference to townhouse, trailer park, or apartment its operation or the results thereof. complex; 2) A place where any treatment is administered in the course of the practice of any healing art or profession under the provisions of the Business and Professions Code or any other statute of the state of California; or 3) A place of employment where bathing facilities for the use of employees are required by law. BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS

“Locksmith” means the business, trade “Model studio” means any premises “Motor vehicle rental” means or occupation of making or fashioning on which there is conducted the conducting, managing or carrying on keys for locks or similar devices, business of furnishing figure models the business of renting motor vehicles or constructing, reconstructing, who pose for the purpose of being without drivers. or repairing or adjusting locks, or observed or viewed by any person, opening or closing locks for others or of being sketched, painted, drawn, “Motor vehicle repair” means the by mechanical means other than sculptured, photographed or otherwise repair of motor vehicles for a charge, the regular keys furnished for that similarly depicted for persons who or the repair of motor vehicles as an purpose by the manufacturer of the pay a fee or other consideration or incident to the business of selling new locks. The definition of “locksmith” compensation, or a gratuity, for the or used motor vehicles, or new or used does not include: A) A person who right of opportunity so to depict the motor vehicle parts, or as an incident only duplicates keys; or B) A person, figure model, or for admission to, or to any other traffic in motor vehicles licensed pursuant to or specifically for permission to remain upon, or as or their parts or equipment. “Motor excepted from tow-truck licensing a condition of remaining upon the vehicle repair does not include any of requirements who only assists premises; or any premises where the following work: 1) Tire changing motorists in opening locked vehicle there is conducted the business of or tire repairing; 2) Replacement of doors by means of rods, wires or furnishing or providing or procuring windshield wiper blades and arms, devices utilized to open locked vehicle for a fee or other consideration or gas caps, lamps and lamp globes, and doors by manipulating inside door compensation or gratuity, figure other similar minor accessories; 3) handles or door-locking buttons, and models to be observed or viewed by Fanbelt changing; 4) Battery servicing, without the use of locksmith tools any person or to be sketched, painted, charging and changing, not including to manipulate the vehicle door lock drawn, sculptured, photographed or repair or rebuilding; 5) Work only for tumblers. otherwise similarly depicted. “Model a motor vehicle repairer and not the studio” does not mean any studio or owner of the motor vehicle; 6) Fitting “Lumberyard” means a place where any premises which is operated by any and replacing glass in motor vehicle wood used for building purposes is state college, or public junior college windows; 7) Cutting and fitting seat stored and sold. or school wherein the persons, firm, covers; 8) The installation of such association, partnership or corporation minor parts or the making of such “Massage establishment owner” operating it has met the requirements trivial repairs as is customarily done means a person who owns five established in Division 21 of the as an incident to the business of percent (5%) or more of a message Education Code for the issuance or selling motor fuel, oil or accessories, establishment business and is not conferring of, and is in fact authorized including the testing, adjustment certified under state massage therapy thereunder to issue and confer, a and replacement of the following laws. “Massage establishment” diploma or honorary diploma. parts: carburetors, coils, condensors, means a business or establishment, distributor caps, filters, generators, including a sole proprietor or points, rotors, spark plugs, voltage independent contractor, that offers regulators, water and fuel pumps, massage services at a fixed place water hoses, or wiring; 9) Painting or of business, and also includes all enameling; 10) Body and fender work; establishments or businesses where or 11) Radiator cleaning and flushing. massage is provided as an ancillary services, such as gyms, clubs, day spas and professional offices where such massage is not otherwise exempt. BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS

“Outdoor festival” means any music “Peddling” means any person, “Public eating place” means and festival, dance festival, “rock festival” or whether as an employee or otherwise, includes every restaurant, lunch similar musical activity to which both engaged in the business of itinerant room, tea room, coffee shop, soda of the following apply: 1) Attendance peddling, selling, hawking, vending, fountain, public boarding house, by more than 500 persons is desired delivery or soliciting for sale, either hotel, club, beer parlor, cocktail or may reasonably be expected; and retail or wholesale, any merchandise, lounge, and every other public place 2) The festival will be held at any place including but not limited to liquids or where food or drinks are prepared other than in a permanent building edibles for human consumption, from or served, or both, to be consumed or permanent installation which has packs, baskets, temporary stands or by the public on the premises, and been constructed for the purpose of/ facilities, handcarts, or vehicles, at any all kitchens, commissaries and or is so constructed that it can be place other than a fixed place of other rooms appurtenant thereto, or used for conducting such activities. It business in the City. The term connected therewith. All places where is immaterial whether music will be “peddling” or sandwiches, lunches, or similar food provided by paid, or professional, or “solicitation” shall not include a person are prepared for sale or gift to the amateur performers, or by prerecorded engaged in the delivery or sale of pre- public, shall be classified as public means, or whether admission is to be ordered goods to a private residence eating places. charged. or business with the prior consent of the owner, occupant, lessee, or the “School private” means any school “Pawnbroker” means any person designee of said persons, including but giving a course of training similar to engaged in any one or more of the not limited to employees. that given in any grade of a public following businesses: 1) Pawnbroking; school from kindergarten to the twelfth or 2) Lending money for himself or any “Plant nursery” means a place where grade, inclusive, but shall not include: other person upon personal property, plants are grown commercially, either 1) Public schools; 2) Trade schools; 3) pawns or pledges, in the possession for sale direct to the public or to other Institutions for the conduct of which a of the lender; or 3) Purchasing articles retailers license from the state is obtained; or of personal property and reselling or 4) Institutions maintained by any bona agreeing to resell such articles to the “Psychic reading” means the fide religious organization, or by and vendors or assignees at prices agreed engagement, practice, business for the adherents of a bona fide church, upon at or before the time of such or art of astrology, phrenology, life sect or denomination. purchase. reading, fortunetelling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, “Second hand dealer” means a hypnotism, mediumship, mesmerism, person, other than a used-car dealer oriental mysteries, palmistry, or dealer in secondhand books or spirits, etherealization, numerology, magazines, engaged in conducting, physiognomy, seership, prophecy, managing or carrying on the business augury, divination, magic, necromancy, of buying, selling or otherwise dealing reading of tarot or similar cards, or use in secondhand goods, wares or of other similar occult powers for any merchandise, including gold, silver, form of compensation. platinum and mercury, but does not include a person who does not sell, or offer to sell, secondhand goods, wares or merchandise except such as is received by such person as payment or part payment for a new article sold by him. BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS

“Taxi cab driver” means an individual “Taxi cab operator” means any person driver, at rates based on the distance, who drives or is in actual physical in the business of providing taxicab duration or number of trips, or on the control of a taxicab, either as agent, service such that passengers are riding time, or on any combination of association member, employee, or accepted for transportation in taxicabs such rates, which vehicle is routed otherwise, in providing taxicab service within City limits, provided that such under the direction or with the such that passengers are accepted for person operates or uses three or more agreement of such passengers or transportation in such taxicab within taxicabs, whether as owner, lessor, other persons hiring such vehicle. the City limits. “Taxicab” means every lessee, employer or otherwise, in automobile or motor-propelled vehicle providing such taxicab services, and “Taxicab vehicle” means every having a distinctive insignia and color directly conducts, manages or carries automobile or motor-propelled vehicle scheme, used for the transportation on the business of providing taxicab having a distinctive insignia and color of not more than eight passengers service with such taxicabs. “Taxi cab scheme, used for the transportation for hire, excluding the driver, at rates operator” also means any association of not more than eight passengers based on the distance, duration or with a membership solely of licensed for hire, excluding the driver, at rates number of trips, or on the writing time, taxicab drivers, all of whom are based on the distance, duration or or on any combination of such rates, engaged in providing taxicab service number of trips, or on the riding time, which vehicle is routed under the such that passengers are accepted or on any combination of such rates, direction or with the agreement of such for transportation in their taxicabs which vehicle is routed under the passengers or other persons hiring within City limits, provided that each direction or with the agreement of such such vehicle. such taxicab driver shall be the owner, passengers or other persons hiring lessor, lessee, or otherwise have an such vehicle. ownership interest in one taxicab, which is driven by such taxicab driver “Theatre” means an enclosed building on a regular shift basis, and each such used for public assembly and/or taxicab driver shall be required as a entertainment, including sporting condition of association membership events, theatrical performances, to abide by the operating procedures concerts and recitals, circuses, stock of the association, including but not shows and conventions. “Theatre” limited to recordkeeping, service shall include auditorium. standards, safety standards, maintenance schedules, dispatching procedures, and discipline rules, and the association shall be a registered nonprofit corporation organized to provide supervisory disciplinary and dispatching services to not less than twenty-five (25) nor more than one hundred (100) taxicab drivers each of whose taxicabs have the same uniform insignia and color scheme. “Taxicab” means every automobile or motor- propelled vehicle having a distinctive insignia and color scheme, used for the transportation of not more than eight passengers for hire, excluding the BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS

Category C Businesses: Carnival Game Booth* Circus/ Gun Dealer* Plant Nursery Accupressure & Travel Show Hay, Grain & Feed Public Eating Accupressure Technicians Close Out Sale Hotel 16 units or more School Private* Ambulance Operator Coin Game Health Gym/Spa* Pawnbrokers & Ambulance Vehicle Cold Storage Warehouse Launderette/ Second Hand Ambulance Driver Dance* Laundromat Livery Dealers* Peddling* T Apartment Houses Door-to-Door Sales Stable Lumberyard Taxi Cab Driver* 16 or more units Entertainment Manager* Locksmith* Taxi Cab Operator* Auto Body & Fender Exhibition* Massage Taxicab Vehicle* Auto Paint Shop Filling Stations Establishment* Model Theatre* Billard Room* Food Establishments Studio* Tow Truck Boarding Room (food sales as accessory use) Motor Vehicle Rental Bookstore* Game Arcade* Motor Vehicle Repair* Carnival* Outdoor Festival* * Denotes Background Check