The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed or construed to require the payment of a license tax to conduct, manage or carry on any business, occupation or activity from any institution or organization which is conducted, managed or carried on wholly for the benefit of charitable purposes or from which profit is not derived, either directly or indirectly by any person, nor shall any license tax be required for the conducting of any entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition or lecture on scientific, historical, literary, religious or moral subjects within the city, whenever the receipts of any such entertainment, concert, exhibition or lecture are to be appropriated to any church or school or to any religious or benevolent purpose, nor shall any license tax be required for the conducting of any entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition or lecture by any religious, charitable, fraternal, educational, military, state, county or municipal organization or association, whenever the receipts of any such entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition or lecture are to be appropriated for the purpose and objects for which the organization or association was formed, and from which profit is not derived, either directly or indirectly by any person.
(1995 Code, § 5.04.110)