[Ord. No. 378 §§1, 2, 4, 12-1-1969]
A. 
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing, transmitting, distributing and selling electricity for lighting, heat and power and for any and all other purposes, shall pay to the City of Tipton as a license or occupational tax five percent (5%) of the gross revenue derived from the sale and distribution of such electrical energy to residential and commercial customers within the City limits, which sum shall be paid by such concerns to the City semi-annually.
B. 
Not Exempt from Other Occupational or Franchise Tax. The tax required to be paid by this Section shall be in lieu of any other occupation or franchise tax required of any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business described in Subsection (A) hereof and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to exempt any such person, firm or corporation from the payment to the City of the tax which the City may levy upon the real personal property belonging to such person, firm, or corporation, nor the tax required of merchants or manufacturers for the sale of anything other than electric service, nor shall the tax herein required exempt any such person, firm or corporation from the payment of any other tax which may be required other than an occupational or franchise tax on the business described in Subsection (A) of this Section.
[Ord. No. 11-06 §1, 9-6-2011]
The City of Tipton, Missouri, shall maintain the tax rate of five percent (5%) as a business license tax on all gross receipts of electric utilities without reduction notwithstanding any periodic fluctuation in tariffs of such utility corporations or any notice thereof including, but not limited to, notice sent under Section 393.275, RSMo.