Ordinance 2010-94 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • • 2. "Telephone business" means the business of providing access to a local telephone network, local telephone network switching services, toll service, or coin telephone services, or providing telephone, 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 services, not the providing of cable television services. 3. "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. 4. "Cellular telephone service" means the two-way voice and data telephone/tele-communications system based in whole or substantially in part on wireless radio communications and which is not subject to regulation by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC). This includes "cellular mobile service". The cellular system is defined by the FCP as a high capacity land mobile system in which assigned spectrum is divided into descrete channels which are assigned in groups to geographic cells covering a cellular geographic service area. The discrete channels are capable of being revised in different cells within the same area. The "cellular mobile service" is defined to include other wireless radio communications services such as specialized mobile radio (SMR), personal communication services (PCS), and any other evolving wireless radio communications technology which accomplishes the same purpose as cellular mobile service. C. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the sale of artificial, natural, or mixed gases, a tax equal to five and three quarters percent (5.75%) of the total gross revenues derived from the operation of such business within the City of Everett, which shall be paid monthly on or before the 20th of the following month. D. Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the sale of electrical power, a tax equal to five and three quarters percent (5.75%) of the total gross revenues derived from the sale of electricity within the City of Everett, exclusive of revenues derived from the sale of electricity for purposes of resale, which shall be paid monthly on or before the 20th day of the following month. 3