[Ord. No. 761, §1.; Ord. No. 776 §1]
Every person engaged in the business of supplying electricity
or service connected therewith for compensation for any purpose in
the city, and every manufacturing corporation now or hereafter engaged
in the manufacture of electricity for compensation for any purpose
in the city, shall pay to the city as a license tax, a sum equal to
five percent of the gross receipts received from such business within
the city.
[Ord. No. 35, §3]
It is hereby made the duty of every person engaged in any business
described in this division to file with the city clerk, on January
15, 1956, a sworn statement of the gross receipts of such person received
within the city from July 15, 1955, to January 15, 1956, and thereafter
a similar statement on July 15 and January 15 of each year of such
receipts for the six calendar months preceding the filing of such
statement. The city clerk or his duly authorized deputy is hereby
authorized to investigate the correctness and accuracy of such statement
and for that purpose shall have access at all reasonable times during
business hours to examine the books, documents, papers and records
of any person making such statement in order to ascertain the accuracy
thereof.
[Ord. No. 35, §4]
Every person engaged in any of the businesses described in this
division shall pay to the city collector on January 25, 1956, and
on July 25, 1956, and on the 25th day of January and July of each
year thereafter an amount equal to five percent of the person's gross
receipts received from such business within the city for the preceding
six calendar months.
[Ord. No. 35, §5]
The tax required to be paid in this division shall be in lieu
of any other occupation tax required of any person engaged in any
of the businesses described in this division, but nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to exempt any such person from the payment
to the city of the tax which the city levies upon the real and 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
any occupation tax on any of the businesses described in this division.
