Businesses and business activities listed in this section are
subject to business license tax on the basis of the graduated scale:
(2) Advertising,
signs. Posting, affixing, stenciling or painting advertising bills
or signs upon any post, fence, billboard, advertising signboard, building
or other structure, as well as operating and maintaining any billboards,
signboards, advertising structure or sign device;
(5) Air
conditioning service and maintenance;
(6) Aircraft
dealers and distributors;
(8) Aircraft
service and maintenance;
(9) Airport,
ticket office and operation;
(16) Automobile accessories, parts or equipment business;
(27) Billiard equipment, retail;
(31) Bus service, charter only;
(33) Cash registers and supplies;
(37) Collection agency and/or credit bureaus;
(49) Electric equipment repair;
(50) Electric cars and carts, retail;
(52) Equipment rental service;
(53) Exhibits and shows, nontheatrical;
(62) Golf course or driving range;
(73) Laundry and dry cleaning business branch call office;
(74) Land developer, land development company;
(77) Limousines.
If the operator does not maintain any office in the city limits,
and only enters the city limits for picking up and dropping off persons
at the airport, occasionally (not to exceed twenty trips annually),
the operator is exempt from this section. However, the operator will
be liable for per-trip charges at the airport which shall be in lieu
of a business license tax.
(81) Maintenance, buildings, windows, swimming pools, etc.;
(83) Massage parlors or other massage operations;
(89) Mobile home or trailer service (preparatory);
(92) Motor driven cycles or scooters, rentals or sales;
(96) Newspapers, magazines and other publications, excepting that delivery
boys shall not be included in computation of tax;
(100) Parking lot; provided that no tax shall be due for a temporary parking
lot for which a permit has been issued pursuant to Section 9405.01-A-10
of the Palm Springs Zoning Ordinance;
(101) Patio equipment and supplies;
(108) Printing and blueprinting;
(114) Restaurant equipment and supplies;
(115) Retail business not classified elsewhere;
(117) Schools, seminars or classes;
(118) Service business not classified elsewhere;
(121) Sound systems and equipment;
(125) Swimming pool equipment and supplies;
(128) Television cable service;
(129) Television or radio service;
(136) Vehicle upholstering and/or top shop;
(137) Weather forecast service;
(139) Wholesale distributor or delivery;
(Prior code § 2221; Ord. 909 § 1, 1971; Ord. 1257 § 1, 1986; Ord. 1458 §
2. 1993; Ord. 1510 § 2, 1995)