City of Cottleville, MO Gross Receipts Tax

[Ord. No. 12 §§2 — 4, 6-12-1980]

Every person now or hereafter engaged in the business of supplying electricity for compensation for any purpose in the City of Cottleville, Missouri, shall pay to the City of Cottleville, Missouri, as a license tax a sum equal to five percent (5%) of the gross operating revenue derived from such business within the corporate limits exclusive of the sales of electricity to the municipality for street lighting, water pumping and other municipal purposes.

Every person now or hereafter engaged in the business described in Subsection (A) hereof shall pay to the Collector of the City of Cottleville, Missouri, on the fifteenth (15th) day of each month of each year that this Section is in force and effect an amount equal to five percent (5%) of said person's gross receipts from the said business herein named for the preceding month.

The tax herein required to be paid shall be in lieu of any other occupational tax required of any person engaged in the business enumerated in Subsection (A) hereof, but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to exempt any such person from the payment to the City of Cottleville, Missouri, of the tax taxes which the City of Cottleville, Missouri, levies upon the real or personal property belonging to any such person nor the tax required of merchants or manufacturers for the sale of anything other than electricity, nor shall the tax herein required exempt any such person from the payment of any other tax, which may be lawfully required, other than an occupational tax on the business described in Subsection (A).