§ 7-1207. SPECIFIC BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS.

(a)

Every person primarily conducting, carrying on or engaged in a profession in the private sector shall pay the annual license fee designated in the Master Fee Resolution, except that where the professional is an employee in an employment relationship then the employer shall pay the employee's designated annual license fee unless the employer pays a license fee under Section 7-1202 or Section 7-1208. For purposes of this subsection the term "employee" means an employee whose wages are reported by the employer on a Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statement.

(b)

The term "profession" is defined to mean a calling requiring specialized knowledge, training or academic preparation, and certification or licensing, and shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: accountant, actuary, analyst, archaeologist, attorney at law, audiologist, bacteriologist, certified shorthand reporter, chiropractor, consultant, counselor, dentist, dental hygienist, insurance adjuster, insurance broker, landscape architect, mortician, metallurgist, nurse, oculist, optometrist, osteopath, osteopathist, pharmacist, physical therapist, physician, podiatrist, psychologist, psychiatrist, real estate licensee, speech pathologist, surgeon, surveyor, veterinarian, X-ray technician, or other professions determined by the Director to be similar thereto.

(c)

Said license fee shall be established as $328 per individual professional per year and the maximum annual fee per firm shall be $5,260 on November 1, 1990; and thereafter annually, on July 1 of each year commencing on July 1, 1991, said fees shall escalate automatically without further action by this Council, by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index (Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside City Average for urban wage earners and clerical workers—all items, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States of America) between March of said year and March of the preceding year, whichever is greater, unless the Council shall determine prior to July 1 of any year that all or part of the increase shall be deferred.

(d)

The term "private sector" as used in subsection (a) is defined to mean (i) anyone who is not an employee of a public entity as defined in Government Code Section 811.2 receiving a salary and benefits directly from said agency, or (ii) anyone not working exclusively for a public entity.

(e)

If any sentence, clause or phrase of this section is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this section. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and adopted this section and each sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

(Orig. Ord. 4674; Am. Ord. 5480, 1959; Am. Ord. 68-95, 1968; Am. Ord. 78-52, § 1, eff. 4-28-78; Am. Ord. 79-33, § 1, eff. 3-16-79; Am. Ord. 80-115, § 28, eff. 8-8-80; Am. Ord. 83-88, § 1, eff. 7-15-83; Am. Ord. 83-104, § 1, eff. 8-12-3; Am. Ord. 83-136, § 1, eff. 11-11-83; Am. Ord. 85-118, § 1, eff. 9-13-85; Am. Ord. 90-117, § 1, eff. 10-30-90; Am. Ord. 2008-13, §§ 3, 4, eff. 3-14-08).