For purposes of this chapter, unless it is plainly evident from the context that different meaning is intended, certain terms and phrases used herein are defined as follows:
A. “Applicant” means a person who is in the process of applying for a business license which is yet to be issued.
B. “Business” includes professions, trades and occupations, and all and every kind of calling whether or not carried on for gain or profit, but shall not include the services rendered by an employee for his employer.
C. “Business license” means the officially signed form issued as evidence of the City’s having granted permission to exercise the privilege of engaging in a particular business, as defined herein, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth.
D. “Business license tax” means the revenue raised or to be raised from the issuance of a business license pursuant to this chapter. “Business license tax” shall be deemed synonymous with the term “privilege tax,” and shall not supplant any other tax, levy or fee imposed or which may be imposed by the City.
E. “City” means the City of Cupertino, a municipal corporation of the State of California, in its present incorporated form or as in any later reorganized, consolidated, enlarged or reincorporated form.
F. “City Council” means the duly elected members of the City Council of the City of Cupertino.
G. “Collector” means the City Manager, who shall have the power and duties of administering and enforcing this chapter, and shall also mean any and all officers and employees of the City duly designated by the City Manager as his deputies for purposes of administering and enforcing this chapter.
H. “Licensee” means that person who makes application for a business license which is subsequently approved and in whose name the business license is issued.
I. “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, foreign or domestic.
J. “Sworn statement” means an affidavit sworn to before a person authorized to take oaths, or a declaration or certification made under penalty of perjury.
(Ord. 1612, § 1 (part), 1992)