§ 40-359. Railroads and railways.

(a)

License required; fee. Every railroad company operating either steam- or diesel-powered engines, transacting business within the city, not including a business done to or from points without the state and not including any business done for the government of the United States or its officers or agents, and every such railroad company operating its trains or keeping and maintaining its tracks across, upon or along any street, alley or other public place of the city, or operating its trains over, under or across any street, alley or other public place in the city by means of any surface track, bridge, viaduct or tunnel, and every such railroad company occupying any portion of any street, alley or other public place of the city, with its roadbed, tracks, ties, switches, bridges, viaducts, tunnels or other structures, shall procure from the city a license therefor, and shall pay therefor a license fee of $625.00 per annum.

(b)

Scope of section. The license fee as provided in this section shall be in lieu of any license or occupation tax on the agents of every such railroad company transacting business within the city.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 21.454)

Cross reference

Railroads, ch. 58.