09/24/2024 Ordinances 9990 ORDINANCE NO. 9990
An ordinance to amend Chapter 23 of the Grand Island City Code specifically to Section
§23-21 to amend the gross receipt percentage to stay current with state statutes.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND
ISLAND,NEBRASKA:
I. That §23-21 of the Grand Island City Code be amended to read as follows:
§ 23-21 Occupation Tax; Exemption
A. All telephone companies and mobile telecommunications services doing business in the
City are required to pay an occupation tax to the City in an amount equal to four(4)percent of
the gross receipts from the legally established basic monthly charges collected for local exchange
telephone service to subscribers within the City, intrastate message toll telephone service and
mobile telecommunications services for revenue in the City.
B. As used in this section, mobile telecommunications services shall mean a wireless
communication service carried on between mobile stations or receivers and land stations, and by
mobile stations communicating among themselves, and includes:
1. Both one-way and two-way wireless communications services;
2. A mobile service which provides a regularly interacting group of base, mobile, portable
and associated control and relay stations, whether on an individual, cooperative, or multiple basis
for private one-way or two-way land mobile radio communications by eligible users over
designated areas of operation; and
3. Any personal communications service.
C. There shall be excepted from the provisions of this Article all receipts for telephone
service to the United States government or any of its departments, and all receipts from the state
or any of its departments, and no part or portion of the tax provided for in this Article shall be
levied upon or assessed against or taken from the United States government, the government of
the state, or any of either of their departments.
(Amended by Ordinance No. 9106, effective 3-1-07) (Amended by Ordinance No. 9593,
effective 9-01-16)
ORDINANCE NO. 9990 (Cont.)
II. This ordinance shall be in full force and will take effect from and after its passage.
Enacted: September 24, 2024.
Roge . Ste e, mayor
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