[Ord. No. 4 §1, 2-25-1980; Ord. No. 332 §1, 7-19-1999]
The word "person" when used in this Chapter, shall include any individual (residential), firm, partnership, joint venture, association, cooperative, corporation, estate, business trust, trustee, receiver, syndicate or any other group or combination acting as a unit, in the plural as well as in the singular number.
[Ord. No. 4 §2, 2-25-1980; Ord. No. 332 §§2, 4, 7-19-1999]
A. 
Every person now or hereafter engaged in the business of supplying electricity, telephone service, gas (natural or manufactured) for compensation for any purpose in the City of Foristell, Missouri, shall pay to the City of Foristell, Missouri, on a monthly basis an amount equal to three percent (3%) of said person's gross receipts from said business.
B. 
Exception. The tax provided for in this Chapter shall have no application to businesses described in Subsection (A) hereof which are owned and operated by the City of Foristell, Missouri. Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to revenue derived from interstate telephone calls.
[Ord. No. 4 §3, 2-25-1980]
Every person now or hereafter engaged in the business described in Section 615.020 hereof shall pay to the Collector of the City of Foristell, Missouri, on the fifteenth (15th) day of each month of each year that this Chapter is in force and effect an amount equal to three percent (3%) of said person's gross receipts from the said business herein named for the preceding month.
[Ord. No. 4 §4, 2-25-1980; Ord. No. 332 §3, 7-19-1999]
The tax herein required to be paid shall be in lieu of any other occupation tax required of any person engaged in the businesses enumerated in Section 615.020 hereof, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any such person from the payment to the City of Foristell, Missouri, of the tax, which said town 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, gas (natural or manufactured) or telephone service, 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 occupation tax on the business described in Section 615.020.
[Ord. No. 72 §1, 3-14-1988; Ord. No. 120 §1, 11-27-1989; Ord. No. 121 §1, 12-28-1989; Ord. No. 138 §1, 9-13-1990; Ord. No. 144 §1, 11-12-1990; Ord. No. 147 §1, 1-14-1991; Ord. No. 160 §1, 11-12-1991; Ord. No. 162 §1, 1-13-1992; Ord. No. 179 §1, 1-11-1993; Ord. No. 183 §1, 2-8-1993; Ord. No. 332, 7-19-1999]
Pursuant to Section 393.275(2), RSMo., the Board of Aldermen of the City of Foristell, Missouri, hereby orders that the tax rate for persons or businesses engaged in the business of supplying natural gas or electric for any purpose within the City of Foristell shall be taxed at a rate of three percent (3%) from and after the rate increase authorized by the Missouri Public Service Commission on the thirtieth (30th) day of December, 1992.
[Ord. No. 778 §1, 9-6-2011; Ord. No. 795 § 1, 1-22-2013]
The gross receipts tax imposed upon electric corporations, including but not limited to Ameren Missouri, pursuant to the Code of the City of Foristell, shall be maintained at its existing rate of three percent (3%), despite the tariff increase awarded by the PSC to Ameren Missouri effective on December 12, 2012.
[Ord. No. 332 §5, 7-19-1999]
Any person engaged in any of the businesses described in Section 615.020(A) who shall violate any of the provisions of this Chapter, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Each day's violation of this Chapter shall constitute a separate offense.