It shall be the duty of every operator required to make a return and pay any tax under this subchapter to keep and preserve suitable records of the gross daily rentals together with other pertinent records and documents which may be necessary to determine the amount of tax due hereunder and such other records as will substantiate and prove the accuracy of such returns. All records shall remain in the town and be preserved for a period of three years, unless the Clerk/Treasurer, in writing, has authorized their destruction or disposal at any earlier date, and shall be open to examination at any time by the Clerk/Treasurer or by any of his or her duly authorized agents. The burden of proving that a sale was not a taxable sale shall be upon the operator who makes the sale.
(Prior Code, Ch. 7, Art. 4, § 63) Penalty, see § 34.999