Section 98-73 WHOLESALE MERCHANTS.


A.  Any person conducting, operating or engaging in any of the businesses of a wholesale merchant shall pay an annual license  tax equal to eight cents ($0.08) per $100.00 of his gross  receipts in such business, trade or occupation during the  preceding year.


(Ord. No. 4-98 Amended 2-9-98)


B.  The businesses, trades or occupations referred to in Subsection  A of this section shall include the distribution of the  following:

  Alcohol
  Automotive parts and supplies
  Chemicals
  Clothing and furnishings
  Coal and coke
  Commission merchants who take title (others are classed as  brokers)
  Drugs
  Dry goods
  Electrical and plumbing goods
  Farm products or supplies
  Furniture and house furnishings
  Groceries and foods
  Hardware
  Jewelry
  Lumber, paint and construction materials
  Machinery, equipment and supplies
  Metals and metal work
  Paper and paper products
  Petroleum and petroleum products
  Seafood
  Soft drinks
  Sporting goods
  Tobacco and tobacco products, except leaf tobacco
  Waste materials
  Other goods, wares and merchandise
  Other wholesale merchants

(Ord. No. 4-98 Added "Alcohol" 2-9-98)