The provisions of this title shall not be deemed or construed to require the payment
of a business tax to conduct, manage, or carry on any business, occupation, or activity
from any institution or organization which is conducted, managed, or carried on wholly
for the benefit of charitable purposes or from which profit is not intended to be
derived, either directly or indirectly, by any individual; nor shall any business
tax be required for the conducting of any entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition,
or lecture within the city whenever the receipts of any such entertainment, concert,
dance, exhibition, or lecture are to be appropriated to any church, school, civic,
fraternal, religious, or benevolent purpose; nor shall any business tax be required
for the conducting of any entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition, or lecture by
any religious, civic, charitable, fraternal, educational, military, state, county,
or municipal organization or association whenever the receipts of any such entertainment,
dance, concert, exhibition, or lecture are to be appropriated for the purpose and
objects for which such organization or association was formed and from which profit
is not derived, whether directly or indirectly, by any individual; provided, however,
that nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt any such organization or association
from complying with any of the provisions of this title requiring a permit from the
city council for any commission or officer to conduct, manage, or carry on any profession,
trade, calling, or occupation.
(Ord. 89 § 2 (part), 1971: prior code § 6108(a))
