There shall be excluded from the measure of tax:
(A) The amount of any sales or use tax imposed by the State of California upon a retailer or consumer;
(B) The storage, use or the consumption of tangible personal property, the gross receipts from the sale of which has been subject to sales tax under a sales and use tax ordinance enacted in accordance with Cal. Revenue and Taxation Code Part 1.5 of Division 2 by any city and county, county or city in this state;
(C) The gross receipts from sales to, and the storage, use or other consumption of property purchased by, operators of common carriers and waterborne vessels to be used or consumed in the operation of the common carriers or waterborne vessels, principally outside this city; and
(D) The storage or use of tangible personal property in the transportation or transmission of persons, property or communications, or in the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity or in the manufacture, transmission or distribution of gas in intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce by public utilities which are regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California.
(1995 Code, § 5.08.120)