A. Billboards. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of billposting, advertising by means of electric signs, or sign advertising by means of billboards or advertising signboards shall pay a business tax of one hundred dollars per year.
B. Signposting, Bench Advertising. Every person conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of advertising by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, buildings, or other structures except billboards or benches, shall pay a business tax of forty dollars per year.
Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of advertising by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or painting bills or signs upon bus benches shall pay a business tax of five dollars per year for each such bench.
For the purpose of this subsection B, the word "business" is defined to be, and is construed to mean, the doing or performing of any act, or series of acts, or advertising by means or any manner in this subsection specified, or the doing or performing of any act, or series of acts, of posting, sticking, tacking, affixing, or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, buildings, bus benches or other structures, except billboards or advertising signboards; provided, that nothing in this subsection contained shall be construed to affect or apply to any person posting, sticking, tacking, affixing, painting or erecting any business sign on the premises or building occupied and used in the business of such person and which sign advertises the goods, or business of such person.
C. Advertising by Moving Pictures, etc. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of advertising by means of stereopticon, biograph, moving picture or any similar device shall pay a business tax of one hundred dollars per year.
For the purpose of this subsection C, the word "business" is defined to be, is construed to mean, the doing or performing of any act or series of acts of any advertising in any manner or by any means in this subsection specified; provided, that nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed to affect or apply to any person that holds a registration certificate issued under the provisions of Section 4.06.240.
D. Loudspeaker Advertising. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on any commercial public advertising or public announcement by means of any amplifier, phonograph, loudspeaker, microphone, broadcasting radio, megaphone, or other device for public address, or playing any music to attract attention to any commercial advertising or announcement, upon any public street, public sidewalk, public ground, public place, parking lot, or upon any portion of any private property, not fully enclosed by a building or a structure permanently affixed to the ground, or in any open entrance or window, shall pay a business tax of one hundred dollars per year or ten dollars per day.
E. Advertising Matter, Distribution of Handbills or Samples, etc. Every person distributing commercial handbills, samples, or other similar advertising medium shall pay a business tax of one hundred dollars per year or ten dollars per day; provided, that nothing in this subsection contained shall be construed to affect or apply to any person distributing any such handbills or samples for another person that has paid the tax herein provided, but each such person shall comply with each and all of the relevant provisions of this code. (Ord. 2063 § 2 (part), 1975).