(A) A city telecommunications infrastructure maintenance fee is hereby imposed upon all telecommunications retailers in the amount of 1% of all gross charges charged by the telecommunications retailer to service addresses within the city for telecommunications originating or received in the city.
(B) Upon the effective date of the infrastructure maintenance fee authorized in this subchapter, the city infrastructure maintenance fee authorized hereunder shall be the only fee or compensation for the use of all public rights-of-way within the city by telecommunications retailers. Imposition of the infrastructure maintenance fee provided under this subchapter does not, however, serve as a limitation on the levying of any taxes or imposition of any fees otherwise authorized by law.
(C) The city telecommunications infrastructure maintenance fee authorized by this section shall be collected, enforced and administered as set forth in § 115.04 of this chapter.
(1999 Code, § 115.03) (Ord. 1968, passed 12-22-1997)
Editor’s note:
The telecommunications infrastructure maintenance fee authorized by this section has been superseded by the Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax imposed by § 115.20 of this chapter.
Statutory reference:
Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax, see ILCS Ch. 35, Act 636, §§ 5-1 et seq.