Upon any person engaging or continuing within the City in any public service or utility business, except railroad, railroad car, express, pipeline, telephone and telegraph companies, water carriers by steamboat or steamship and motor carriers, there is hereby levied and shall be collected taxes on account of the business engaged in equal to the gross income of the business multiplied by the respective rates as follows: Street and interurban and electric railways, seven- tenths of one percent; water companies, two and four-tenths percent, except as to income received by municipally owned water plants; electric light and power companies, two and nine-tenths percent on sales and demand charges for domestic purposes and commercial lighting and two and four-tenths percent on sales and demand charges for all other purposes, except as to income received by municipally owned plants producing or purchasing electricity and distributing the same; natural gas companies, two and one-tenth percent on the gross income; toll bridge companies, two and one-tenth percent; and upon all other public service or utility businesses, one and four-tenths percent. The measure of this tax shall not include gross income derived from commerce between the City and other cities, states or countries. The measure of the tax under this section shall include only gross income received from the supplying of public services. The gross income of the taxpayer from any other activity shall be included in the measure of the tax imposed by the appropriate section of this article.
(Ord. 203. Passed 5-17-76.)