(1) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing electric energy, a fee or tax equal to six percent of the total gross income derived from such business in the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due;

(2) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on a telephone business, a fee or tax equal to six percent of the total gross income, excluding revenues from intrastate toll, derived from such business in the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due. "Telephone business" means the business of providing access to a local telephone network, local telephone switching service, toll service, cellular telephone service, coin telephone service, telephonic, video, data, or similar communication, or transmission for hire, via a local telephone network, toll line or channel, cable, microwave, or similar communication or transmission system. The term includes cooperative or farmer line telephone companies or associations operating exchanges. For the purpose of this subsection, gross income does not include charges which are passed onto the subscriber by a telephone company pursuant to tariffs required by regulatory order to compensate for the cost to the company of the tax imposed by this section, nor competitive telephone service which is a type that can be provided by persons that are not subject to regulation as telephone companies under RCW Title 80 and for which a separate charge is made;

(3) Upon every person and/or entity engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing natural gas for domestic, business or industrial consumption, a tax equal to six percent of the total gross income derived from such business in the city during the period for which the tax is due. The city also imposes a use tax, equal in percent to the city's utility tax as now existing or hereinafter amended, for all customers purchasing out of state brokered natural gas;

(4) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of transmitting television by cable, a fee or tax equal to six percent of the total gross income derived from such business in the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due;

(5) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of operating or conducting a water system for domestic, business or industrial consumption, a fee or tax equal to six percent of the total gross income derived from such business in the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due;

(6) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of operating or conducting a sewerage system for domestic, business or industrial use, a fee or tax equal to six percent of the total gross income derived from such business in the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due;

(7) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of operating or conducting a garbage or solid waste refuse collection system for domestic, business or industrial use, a fee or tax equal to six percent of the total gross income derived from such business in the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due;

(8) Upon the city engaged in or carrying on the business of operating water and sewerage systems for domestic, business, or industrial use, and engaged in or carrying on the business of operating a garbage collection service, a fee or tax of equal to twenty-nine and a half percent of the total gross income derived from such business within the city during the period for which the license fee or tax is due. Of this amount 8.5 percent will be distributed with 5.16 percent recorded for the support of fire department operations and 3.34 percent for police department operations. Provided that city utility customers participating in low income senior and/or disabled rate programs will only be charged a fee or tax equal to the rates imposed in subsections (1) thru (7) for private utility company providers. (Ord. 1953,, 2014; Ord. 1950,, 2014; Ord. 1898, § 1, 2012; Ord. 1383,, 1998; Ord. 1100,, 1993; Ord. 939,, 1989; Ord. 810, § 2, 1983.)