(A) Pursuant to the authority granted by, and subject to, the provisions of RSMo. §§ 144.600 through 144.761, a use tax for general revenue purposes is imposed for the privilege of storing, using, or consuming within the city any article of tangible personal property. This tax does not apply with respect to the storage, use, or consumption of any article of tangible personal property purchased, produced, or manufactured outside this state until the transportation of the article has fully come to rest within this city or until the article has become commingled with the general mass of property of this city.
(B) The rate of the tax shall be 1.5%. If any city sales tax is repealed or the rate thereof is reduced or raised by voter approval, the city use tax rate shall also be deemed to be repealed, reduced, or raised by the same action repealing, reducing, or raising the city use tax.
(Ord. 96-008, passed 5-28-1996)