HomeMy WebLinkAbout3668 ORDINANCE NO. 3~
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance
2169J3, as amended by Ordinance
2530jl,
relating
to the telephone ~
business utility tax. ~'~
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN: ~%--
SECTION l: City of Bremerton Ordinance No. 2169,
Section 3, as amended by Ordinance 2530, SeCtion 1, certified as
BMC 5.64.030, is amended hereby, as follows:
From and after January 1, 1982, there is hereby
levied upon, and there shall be collected from, every person, firm
or corporation engaged in carrying on a telephone business for hire
or for sale of a commodity or a service within or partly within the
corporate limits of the City, a tax for the privilege of so doing
business as hereinafter defined, to wit:
(a) Upon telephone business there shall be
levied a tax equal to eight percent (8%) of the total gross operating
revenues, excluding revenues from intrastate toll, derived from the
operation of such businesses within the City of Bremerton. Gross
operating revenues for this purpose shall not include charges which
are passed on to the subscribers by a telephone company pursuant to
tariffs required by regulatory order to compensate for the cost to
the company of the tax imposed by this ordinance.
"Telephone Business" means the business of
providing access to a local telephone network, local telephone
network switching service, toll service, or coin telephone services,
or providing telephonic, video, data, or similar communication or
transmission for hire, via a local telephone network, toll line or
channel, or similar communication or transmission system. It
includes cooperative or farmer line telephone companies or
associations operating an exchange. "Telephone business" does not
include the providing of competitive telephone service, nor the
providing of cable television service.
"Competitive telephone service" means the
providing by any person of telephone equipment, apparatus, or
service, other than toll service, which is of a type which can be
provided by persons that are not subject to regulation as telephone
companies under Title 80 RCW and for which a separate charge is made.
APPROVED on first reading this ~ day of December,
1981.
PASSED on second reading by the City Council of the
City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor attested by the City Clerk
in authentication of such passage this ~ day of December, 1981.
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN L. MANDIO, City Clerk