[Ord. No. 7 §1, 2-4-1965]
The word "person", when used in this Article,
shall include any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint partnership,
joint adventure, association, corporation, estate, business trust,
trustee, receiver, syndicate or any other group or combination acting
as a unit, in the plural, as well as the singular, number.
[Ord. No. 7 §2, 2-4-1965]
After the effective date of this Article, February 4, 1965,
no person shall carry on, conduct or engage in the business of supplying
electricity, telephone service, water or gas for compensation in the
City of Leadwood without first having obtained a license so to do.
[Ord. No. 86 §§1 —
2, 6-5-1975]
Every person who, after the effective date of this Article,
shall carry on, conduct or engage in the business of supplying electricity,
telephone service, water or gas for compensation in the City of Leadwood
shall pay to said City, as a license tax, a sum equal to seven percent
(7%) of the gross receipts from such business in said City to be determined
as hereinafter provided.
[Ord. No. 149 §1, 10-2-1986]
The City of Leadwood, in order to maintain its sources of revenue
at its historical level, hereby determines to maintain the seven percent
(7%) gross receipts tax against the AmerenUE Company.
[Ord. No. 7 §4, 2-4-1965]
A.
Every
such person shall, within thirty (30) days after the effective date
of this Article and on or before the first (1st) day of each succeeding
July and January, file in writing for a license to conduct such business
in said City for a period ending on the first (1st) day of July or
the first (1st) day of January then next following, as the case may
be. Such application shall be made in a form to be prescribed by the
City Clerk.
B.
At the time of the filing of such application, every such person shall pay or cause to be paid to the City Collector the license tax provided for in Section 615.030 hereof. Upon payment thereof, the City Clerk shall issue to such person a license entitling such person to conduct such business in said City of Leadwood for the period of time ending on the first (1st) day of July or the first (1st) day of January then next following, as the case may be.
[Ord. No. 7 §4, 2-4-1965; Amending Ord. No. 7, 1-21-2001]
On or before the twentieth (20th) day following the date upon
which any such license shall expire, the person holding a license
to carry on, conduct or engage in the business of supplying electricity,
telephone service, water or gas for compensation in said City of Leadwood
shall file with the City Clerk of the City of Leadwood a sworn statement
setting forth the gross receipts from such business in said City for
and during the period within which such license was in effect. The
advance estimate tax payment requirement is hereby abolished. A monthly
tax remittance will commence by February 28, 2001, and monthly thereafter.
[Ord. No. 7 §5, 2-4-1965]
The City Clerk of the City of Leadwood or any other person authorized by the Board of Aldermen of said City shall have free access at all reasonable times to the books and records of any person carrying on, conducting or engaging in any business described in this Article for the purpose of verifying the correctness and accuracy of the statements required to be made by the provisions of Section 615.060.
[Ord. No. 7 §7, 2-4-1965]
In addition to the penalties herein provided, the license of
any person who shall have been convicted of violating any of the provisions
of this Chapter may at the option of the Board of Aldermen of the
City of Leadwood be revoked by said Board of Aldermen without notice.
[Ord. No. 7 §8, 2-4-1965]
The tax herein levied shall be in lieu of any other occupational tax required of any person engaged in any of the businesses described in Section 615.030 of this Article, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any such person from the payment to the City of Leadwood of the tax which said City may now or hereafter levy upon the real or personal property belonging to any such person, nor any tax now or hereafter levied upon anything other than electricity, gas, telephone service or water, nor shall the payment of the tax herein levied exempt any such person from the payment of any other tax which may lawfully be levied, other than an occupational tax on any of the businesses described in Section 615.030.
[Ord. No. 86 §3, 6-5-1975]
Prior to any construction and/or maintenance to any existing
or newly installed facility, transmission line or appurtenance, a
permit will be required. Said permit must be obtained from the City
Clerk or, in the event of an emergency, permission may be obtained
from the Mayor, Street Commissioner or Superintendent of Public Works.
[Ord. No. 93 §1, 9-16-1975]
Every person, firm, company or corporation now or hereafter
engaged in the business of furnishing exchange telephone service in
the City of Leadwood, Missouri, shall pay the said City as an annual
license tax seven percent (7%) of the gross receipts derived and collected
from its or their customers located within the City and any services
there provided, except such receipts as represent charges for message
rate toll or long distance telephone service, charges for exclusive
interstate service of any kind, charges for Morse, telegraph, television
or radio program transmission facilities or for other services extending
beyond the boundaries of the City, charges for the billing and collecting
for telegrams, charges for the sale of and advertising in telephone
directories, charges for the rental of plant facilities or other property
not currently used by any such company in furnishing its telephone
services, and charges which combine both receipts which are herein
taxes and which are herein excepted in all cases in which the demonstrable
cost to any such telephone company, in making a separation between
the revenues taxed and those excepted, shall exceed the evident revenue
to be derived therefrom by the City hereunder.
[Ord. No. 93 §2, 9-16-1975]
All such persons, firms, companies or corporations mentioned in Section 615.110 preceding shall file with the City Clerk on or before the first (1st) day of May and the first (1st) day of November of each year a sworn statement of the gross receipts derived by such person, firm, company or corporation from the furnishing of such service during the six (6) month periods ending March seventh (7th) and September seventh (7th) respectively. At the time of the May first (1st) filing required by this Section, the tax for the preceding period of September seventh (7th) to March seventh (7th) shall be paid; at the time of the November first (1st) filing required by this Section, the tax for the preceding period of March eighth (8th) to September seventh (7th) shall be paid. The tax shall be in an amount equal to seven percent (7%) of such gross 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.
[Ord. No. 93 §3, 9-16-1975]
The first (1st) payment of tax provided for herein shall be
due and payable on May 1, 1976, and shall be for the period from October
7, 1975 to March 7, 1976; and first (1st) payment to be reduced by
any amount which may heretofore have been paid for the period from
October 7, 1975 to December 31, 1975.
[Ord. No. 93 §4, 9-16-1975]
The payments required by the provisions of this Article 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 615.110 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.
[Ord. No. 93 §5, 9-16-1975]
Upon payment of the tax as described in this Article, the City
shall issue an occupational license for the period covered by the
payment.
[Ord. No. 93 §6, 9-16-1975]
All such persons, firms, companies or corporations mentioned in Section 615.110 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.
[Ord. No. 93 §7, 9-16-1975]
The right is hereby granted to all such persons, firms, companies or corporations mentioned in Section 615.110 to trim trees, brush or hedges upon and overhanging the streets, alleys, sidewalks and public places of said City so as to prevent such foliage from coming in contact with telephone wires and cables, all of said trimming to be done under the supervision and direction of the Governing Body of said City or of any City Official to whom said duties have been or may be delegated. Before any work of the above-stated nature or any work which involves work upon the right-of-way or property of the City of Leadwood may commence, the permit as stipulated in Section 615.100 will be required.
