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"Provider" means a company or entity providing basic local exchange service, through use of its own facilities, through resale, or through any combination of the two. Sec. 3.26.030. Tax imposed. There is hereby levied on and against each telephone utility company provider operating within the city, a tax upon the occupation and business of maintaining a telephone exchange and line connccted there''vith providing basic local exchange service within the city and upon supplying basic 10cal exchange service at retail to the inhabitants ofthe city. The annual amount oftax levied shall be equal to $8.00 per telephone account for which basic local exchange telephone service is provided within the corporate limits of the city on the effecti'o'e date, as pro'lided in section 3.26.020, January 1 of the current year for which the tax is levied, and upon each anniversary thereof. Sec. 3.26.040. Effective date. For each provider the tax levied by this chapter shall commence on January 1, 1979, aad, or for a new provider, shall commence thirty days from the date the provider first provides basic local exchange service within the city. Such tax shall be due and payable in 12 equal monthly installments, with the first such installment due 30 days after such effective date. Thereafter, each monthly installment shall be payable on the first day of each consecutive month subiect to determination of the base count effective January 1 of each year and the total annual amount payable under this chapter. Sec. 3.26.050. Filin2: statement of service. Within 30 days after the effective date, as provided in section 3.26.020 3.26.040, each telephone utility company provider subj ect to this chapter shall file with the eity eleFk Finance Director, in such foml as the elefk.-Finance Director may require, a statement showing the total telephone accounts for which local exchange telephone service basic local service was provided within the corporate limits of the city on the effective date January 1 of the current year. Such statement shall be filed ',vithin 30 days after each ar.niversary of the effective date, shov/ing such accounts on the anniversary date accompanied by the first monthly installment payment ofthe tax for the current year as provided in section 3.26.040. Sec. 3.26.060. Failure to pay. If any telephone utility company provider subject to the provisions of this chapter shall fail to pay the taxes as provided in this chapter, the full amount of such taxes shall be due and collected from such company provider, and such taxes together with 3