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BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS 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. City of Agoura Hills • Planning Division • 30001 Ladyface Court, Agoura Hills, CA 91031 Phone: 818-597-7328 • Fax: 818-597-7352 • E-mail: [email protected] BUSINESS LICENSE DEFINITIONS 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

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