3.20.050 Occupations Subject to Tax Amount.
There is hereby levied upon, and there shall be collected from, every person engaged in carrying on the following businesses for hire or for the sale of a commodity, or service within or partly within the corporation limits of the City the tax for the privilege of so doing business as hereinafter defined, as follows:
A. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on a telephone business by selling, furnishing, delivering, or distributing any telephone business services within the City there shall be levied a tax equal to 6% of the total gross operating income.
Gross operating income for this purpose shall not include charges which are passed on to the subscribers by a telephone company pursuant to tariffs required by regulatory order to compensate for the cost to the company of the tax imposed by this ordinance.
B. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling, furnishing, delivering, or distributing electric light and power of electrical energy within the City there shall be levied a tax equal to 6% of the total gross operating income.
C. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing of natural, manufactured, or mixed gas for residential, commercial, domestic, or industrial consumption within the City there shall be levied a tax equal to 6% of the total gross operating income.
D. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing water for domestic or industrial consumption within the City there shall be levied a tax equal to 8% of the total gross operating income.
E. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing sewer facilities and/or service for domestic or industrial use within the City there shall be levied a tax equal to 6% of the total gross operating income.
F. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing garbage facilities and/or service for domestic or industrial use within the city there shall be levied a tax equal to 6% of the total annual gross operating revenue.
G. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of furnishing a cable subscription system for television signal distribution within the City there shall be levied a tax equal to 6% of the total gross operating income, It is not the intent of this section to classify the business as a public utility