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in, or in connection with, any such application or return , or to aid or abet another in any attempt to evade payment of the fee or tax, or any part thereof, or for any person to fail to appear and/or . testify in response to subpoena issued pursuant hereto, or to testify . falsely upon any investigation of the correctness of a return, or upon the hearing of any appeal, or in any manner to hinder or delay the City or any of its officers in carrying out the provisions of this ordinance. Section 2L : LICENSE FEE ADDITIONAL TO OTHERS: The license . fee and tax herein levied shall be additional to any license fee or tax imposed or levied under any law or any other ordinance of Everett, a municipal corporation, except as herein otherwise expressly pro- vided. Section 25 : TAX CONSTITUTES DEBT: Any license fee or tax due and unpaid under this ordinance , and all penalties thereon, shall: constitute a debt to Everett, a municipal corporation, and may be collected by court proceedings in the same manner as any other debt. in like amount , which remedy shall be in addition to all other exist ing remedies. Section 26: AP 'LICATIC TO CITY'S BUSINESS ACTIVITIES : Whenever Everett, a municipal corporation, through any department or . division shall engage in any business activity which if engaged in by any person would under this ordinance reouire a Business License and the payment of a license fee or tax by such person, the City department or division engaging in such business activity shall as to such business activity at the same time and in the same manner as persons are reouired hereunder make returns and from the funds of such department or division pay the license fees or taxes imposed hereunder. Section 27 : REVOCATION OF LICENSE: The Clerk may revoke the license issued to any taxpayer who is in default in any payment revocation- of any license fee or tax hereunder, or who shall fail to comply of license with any of the provisions of this ordinance. Notice of such revo- cation shall be mai_Jed to the taxpayer by the Clerk, and on and after the date thereof any such taxpayer who continues to engage in business shall be deemed to be operating without a license and shall be sub- ject to any or all penalties herein provided. Section 28: PENALTIE;S: Any person violating or failing penalties to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance or any lawful rule or regulation adopted by the Clerk pursuant thereto , upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ( 300.00) , or by imp risonment in the City Jail fora term not exceeding ninety (90) days , or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any taxpayer who engages in, or carries on, any business • subject to a tax hereunder without having his "Business License" so to do shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance for each day during which the business is so engaged in, or carried on; and • -13-