(A) This chapter is enacted to raise revenue for municipal purposes, as well as for regulation.
(B) Persons required to pay a license tax for transacting and carrying on any business under this chapter shall not be relieved from the payment of any license tax for the privilege of doing such business required under any other ordinance of the city and shall remain subject to the regulatory provisions of other ordinances.
(C) Neither the adoption of this chapter nor its superseding of any portion of any other ordinance of the city shall in any manner be construed to affect the prosecution for violation of any other ordinance committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or any penal provision applicable to any such violation, nor be construed to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit required by any ordinance to be posted, filed or deposited, and all rights and obligations thereunto appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. The renumbering and updating of the nonfinancial provisions of this chapter in no way changes or increases or effects in any way the existing business license taxes or fees.
(Ord. 1374, passed 6-2-04)