(A) The City Council hereby finds that the following activities are of such a nature as to require special regulation and supervision and therefore the following minimum license fees are imposed on every person, corporation, association and the like engaged in the activities named in this section who shall pay in advance to the city for each calendar year (or fraction thereof) the license fee or fees herein set forth.
(1) In the event that a licensee engaged in one of the following activities would be subject to a higher license fee under other provisions of this chapter (0.15% of gross sales or gross income), the higher license fee shall apply.
(2) In no event shall any minimum fee set forth under this section be reduced for the reason that the business or activity covering same shall have been commenced subsequent to January 1 of the tax year.
(B) Types of activities covered are as follows.
(1) For the purpose of raising revenue, for exercising supervisory regulation over motor trucks used for public drays, or for individual or corporate business, or for public hire and other freight carrying vehicles used as public drays in the city, and for policing the city, regulating motor traffic therein, and maintaining and keeping in repair the public ways thereof there is hereby levied and imposed and ordered to be collected from each person, firm or corporation operating any kind of motor truck or trucks, or other motor vehicles as public drays or for individual or corporate business or for public hire by hauling into or out of, or loading or unloading, in the city a tax as privilege license on said trucks, in the sum of $25 yearly. Any truck or delivery wagon used exclusively for transporting unprocessed material or produce to a market within the city, any truck or delivery wagon used exclusively for transporting merchandise purchased or procured in the city to a point within or outside of the city shall be exempt from the payment or the privilege license.
(2) Every person, firm or corporation conducting or engaging in the business of operating, renting, leasing, selling, distributing or installing any machine, board, table or device where same is operated by the insertion of a coin or any counter device, either coin-operated or otherwise, used for amusement or skill, except those used solely for the purpose of vending chewing gum, peanuts, candy, cigarettes or other merchandise and about which there is no element of amusement or skill, shall pay a license fee of $10 per machine, per year. The license shall be publicly displayed on each machine.
(2002 Code, § 110.20) (Ord. 1994-C-2, passed 6-6-1994) Penalty, see § 110.99