[R.O. 2009 § 630.010; R.O. 2006 § 655.010; Ord. No. 635 § 1, 4-18-1983]
Every person, firm, company or corporation now or hereafter engaged in the business of furnishing telecommunications service in the City, shall pay the said City as an annual license tax, five percent (5%) of the gross receipts derived from the furnishings of such service within said City, as hereinafter set forth except that the collection of the license tax on the gross receipts from residential customers shall be in abatement until reinstated by ordinance. No residential customer or utility shall be held responsible or liable for sums not collected during the period of abatement.
[R.O. 2009 § 630.020; R.O. 2006 § 655.020; Ord. No. 486 § 1, 1-16-1979]
All such persons, firms, companies or corporations mentioned in Section 630.010 hereof shall file with the City Clerk on or before the last day of each calendar month a sworn statement of the gross receipts derived by such person, firm, company or corporation from the furnishing of such service during the preceding calendar month. At the time of filing any such statement, the person, firm, company or corporation involved shall pay to the City five percent (5%) of such receipts. The telephone company shall have the privilege of crediting such sums as may be due hereunder with any unpaid balance due said company for telephone service rendered or facilities furnished to said City.
[R.O. 2009 § 630.030; R.O. 2006 § 655.030; Ord. No. 278 § 4, 6-15-1970]
The payments required by the provisions of this Chapter shall be in lieu of all other excises, charges, exactions, rentals, impositions or other license or occupation taxes heretofore imposed upon any person, firm, company or corporation engaged in the business described in Section 630.010 hereof; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt such person, firm, company or corporation from any general or special ad valorem tax imposed upon the public generally by said City.
[R.O. 2009 § 630.040; R.O. 2006 § 655.040; Ord. No. 278 § 5, 6-15-1970]
All such persons, firms, companies, or corporations mentioned in Section 630.010 on the request of any person shall remove or raise or lower its wires temporarily to permit the moving of houses or other bulky structures. The expense of such temporary removal, raising or lowering of wires shall be paid by the party or parties requesting such raising or lowering of wires, and payment in advance may be required. Not less than forty-eight (48) hours advance notice shall be given to arrange for such temporary wire changes.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Section 630.050 (R.O. 2006 § 655.050), Right to Trim Trees, Etc., adopted 6-15-1970 by Ord. No. 278, which immediately followed this section, was deleted at time of recodification. See Section 510.050(H), Tree Trimming.
[Ord. No. 4350, 6-22-2023]
Pursuant to Section 393.275, RSMo., and other applicable authority, the City shall maintain now and hereinafter, unless otherwise provided by law, the tax rates of its license taxes on the gross receipts of businesses furnishing telecommunications service, including as imposed and at the rates established pursuant to Section 630.010, as may be amended from time to time, without reduction, notwithstanding any periodic fluctuations in the tariffs or service rates of such utility companies or any notice thereof, including, but not limited to, notice sent under Section 393.275, RSMo.