TCA § 7-4-203 — Privilege tax on contracted vehicles leaving public airports

There is authorized a privilege tax on the privilege of contracted vehicles exiting public airports located within the boundaries of a metropolitan government. The tax shall only be effective upon the adoption of an ordinance by the metropolitan council to impose this privilege tax. The tax shall be imposed only upon contracted vehicles that charge customers a separate fee for transportation from the airport, unless otherwise excluded in this part. The tax shall be two dollars ($2.00) each time a contracted vehicle meeting the requirements of subdivision (a)(2) exits the airport while transporting customers from the airport located within the territory of the metropolitan government, but shall exclude noncommercial vehicles and equipment operated by the metropolitan transit authority. The tax imposed by subsection (a) is a privilege tax upon the contracted vehicle exiting the airport and is to be collected and distributed as provided in this chapter. The privilege tax is due each time a contracted vehicle to which this section applies leaves the airport. The operator of the contracted vehicle shall be responsible for keeping accurate records to determine the amount of the tax due and payable. That information shall be transmitted daily by the operator of the contracted vehicle to a designated individual within the business organization that hired the operator of the contracted vehicle. The privilege tax shall be remitted to the metropolitan tax collection official by a designated individual within the business organization no later than the twentieth of each month. All revenues received by the metropolitan government from the privilege tax imposed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be deposited into a metropolitan government fund entitled “the convention center fund” and shall be used for the purpose of paying costs incurred in modification or construction of a publicly owned convention center in excess of four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) in costs located within the territory of the metropolitan government. If the revenues from the surcharge or tax in any fiscal year exceeds the total of the debt service requirements from that year, the surplus revenue thus accruing shall be retained by the metropolitan government as a reserve fund for future debt service requirements. In the event that the total bonded indebtedness incurred for the modification or construction of the convention center facility by the metropolitan government is paid in full as to bond principal and interest, including expenses of bond sale or sales, the metropolitan government’s taxing resolution imposing the taxes authorized pursuant to subsection (a) shall be repealed and the taxes shall no longer be levied; provided, however, that any funds remaining in the reserve fund after all obligations imposed under this part have been fulfilled shall be used by the governmental board or agency responsible for the operation of the convention center for use by it in the promotion and advertisement of the convention center facilities.