Chula Vista Municipal Code Ch. 5.60 Business Licenses, Taxes and Regulations

VENDING, WEIGHING, MUSIC, AMUSEMENT, AND VIDEO MACHINES AND NEWSRACKS*

Sections:

• 5.60.010 Vending, weighing, music, amusement, and video machines and newsracks – License tax – Receipts to be attached to machine.

• 5.60.020 Repealed.

• 5.60.030 Repealed.

• 5.60.040 Repealed.

***** For statutory authority for cities to license businesses for purposes of revenue and regulation, see Gov. Code § 37101.

CROSS REFERENCE: Amusement Devices, see Ch. 5.12 CVMC. Food Vendors, see CVMC Title 8.

Every Person who operates a business which has, on the premises on which the business is located, a vending, weighing, music, amusement or video machine operated by a coin or a slug shall pay a tax as presently designated, or as may in the future be amended, in Section 5.60.010 of the master tax schedule in CVMC 5.07.030, in addition to any other license tax required by this chapter. This tax is separately assessed as a business license tax independent of the primary business conducted on the premises. Postage machines, newsracks and laundry machines are exempt from license taxes, as are vending machines for which at least 80 percent of the proceeds from the operation of the machines are made available to a nonprofit organization, and are shown to the satisfaction of the City Finance Officer to be available to a nonprofit organization and are labeled to the satisfaction of the City Finance Officer as dedicated to a nonprofit organization.

The City Finance Officer shall issue a separate license for each such machine, which shall be attached to and maintained thereon for the full term for which the license is issued. (Ord. 2618 § 1, 1994; Ord. 2537 § 1, 1992; Ord. 2408 § 1, 1990; Ord. 1801 § 12, 1978; prior code § 18.52).