[Ord. No. 2004-03 §1, 1-26-2004]
"Commercial communications antenna" shall, for purposes of this Article IV, include, to the extent permitted by law, all forms of antenna used for commercial purposes to provide any and all forms of wireless communication service, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, broadband communications, data transfer, paging, cellular and pcs telephone service, telecommunications services and any other wireless services. Each antenna or integrated antenna array on an antenna tower, structure or fixture shall be considered a separate "commercial communication antenna".
[Ord. No. 2004-03 §1, 1-26-2004; Ord. No. 2004-26 §1, 4-27-2004]
It shall be the duty of every person owning a communication antenna located within the City, by September first (1st) of each year, to make application to the City Clerk for a license hereunder on forms furnished by the City Clerk, such license to be for a year or portion of a year in which said license is issued.
[Ord. No. 2004-03 §1, 1-26-2004]
There shall be levied and collected by the City Clerk a business license tax for each fiscal year or portion thereof in the amount of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for each commercial communications antenna.
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Editor's Note — Ord. no. 2004-26 §2, 4-27-04, states that "the tax levied herein shall be established for the period commencing September 1, 2004".
[Ord. No. 2004-03 §1, 1-26-2004]
At the time of filing such license, such person shall pay to the City Clerk the business license tax set forth in Section 605.420 above. Every owner and lessor of any such communications antenna is and shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of the business tax levied pursuant to this Article IV.
[Ord. No. 2004-03 §1, 1-26-2004]
In addition to any other penalties, any person who is required to take out a license, or any person whose license has expired under the provisions of this Article, and notice has been given by the Clerk, shall, if not paid within thirty (30) days after the expiration of such license, pay a penalty of twenty dollars ($20.00), and for every ten (10) days thereafter twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be added as a penalty until the party required to take out such license shall have complied with the provisions regulating licenses in this Article. This penalty shall be collected with the license by the City Clerk and paid into the City Treasury.
[Ord. No. 2004-03 §1, 1-26-2004]
The payment of the amounts specified herein and the issuance of the license herein provided for shall not be construed to permit the transfer of any said license to any other person.