Pursuant to the power granted to the City by the provisions of 65 ILCS 5/11-42-1 and 65 ILCS 5/11-42-5, there is hereby imposed a tax on the purchase of all tickets for admissions to motion pictures sold within the City of Clinton.
A. For the purposes of this Chapter, the phrase "motion pictures" shall encompass any series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly changed so as to produce the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move.
B. Exemptions: Motion picture tickets sold by any person or groups of persons for exhibition within any school building are exempt from this tax. (Ord. 1582, 9-19-2023)