Ordinances by Topic Small Business

An ordinance requiring all short term rental operators to obtain a short term rental business license; imposing a license fee of three percent of the rent charged for each short term rental, to be paid quarterly; authorizing the License Collector to collect such license fee on behalf of the City of St. Louis and to administer and enforce the license requirement; designating the uses of license fee revenue; directing the Comptroller to establish an account to be known as the Affordable Housing-License Fee Fund; and containing a severability and emergency clause.

This is an ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorizing the St. Louis Treasurer’s Office to accept a Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund Program grant of up to an initial amount of $75,000.00, plus a subsequent anticipated award up to $75,000.00 for project implementation, by entering into a joint Memorandum of Understanding between the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) and The Office of Financial Empowerment with the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund; The ordinance authorizes the Treasurer to expend such funds, to the extent received.

B.B.#67 – Coatar - An ordinance to terminate and dissolve the Orpheum Theater Community District pursuant to the Community Improvement District Act, Sections 67.1401 – 67.1575 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri.

BOARD BILL NO. 124 INTRODUCED BY ALDERMAN BRANDON BOSLEY An ordinance repealing Ordinance 6900 pertaining to the issuance of any package or drink liquor licenses for premises within the boundaries of the Third Ward Liquor Control District and in lieu thereof containing the following supplementary exemptions: renewal of an existing license and the establishment of an Entertainment District; and containing an emergency clause.

BOARD BILL NO. 125 INTRODUCED BY ALDERWOMAN PAMELA BOYD An ordinance repealing Ordinance 70573 and in lieu thereof enacting a new ordinance prohibiting the issuance of any package or drink liquor licenses for any currently non-licensed premises within the boundaries of the Twenty-Seventh Ward Liquor Control District, as established herein, for a period of three years from the effective date hereof; containing exceptions and allowing, during the moratorium period, for the transfer of existing licenses, under certain circumstances, the issuance of a drink license to non-profit corporations at currently non-licensed premises, the issuance of a drink license to persons operating a restaurant at a previously non-licensed premises; and containing an emergency clause.

BOARD BILL NO. 68 INTRODUCED BY ALDERMEN LYDA KREWSON, FRANK WILLIAMSON An ordinance approving a petition for the creation of the East Loop Community Improvement District; authorizing the district to impose special assessments; finding a public purpose; and containing a severability clause.