(A) Every person who engages in operating an adult entertainment establishment as defined herein shall in lieu of the regular occupational license fee charged by the city pay an annual license tax of $5,000 per year effective the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, which fee is due by July 31, 1999 and thereafter due on such date as the city’s Occupational Ordinance requires. Every person who engages in employment, contractually or otherwise, as an independent contractor in an adult entertainment establishment as defined herein, shall pay the regular occupational license fee charged by the city. Such licenses shall be valid upon issuance of same and shall not be transferable to any other person during the period of the license and said tax charged to offset the city’s expenses in exercising its police and regulatory powers involving adult entertainment.
(B) The license fees shall be charged for each license application filed and shall be paid at the time the application and diagram are submitted for processing.
(Ord. 99-006, passed 6-15-99)