City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2020-0022

• File #: 2020-0022
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 1/10/2020
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 3/4/2020
• Final action: 3/10/2020
• Enactment date: 3/10/2020
• Enactment #: 5
• Effective date: 3/13/2020
• Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 241: Amusement Tax, Section 241.01: Definitions, to update language in the city code. The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows: Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code is hereby amended at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 241: Amusement Tax, Section 241.01: Definitions, as follows:
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 02 - FISCAL

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/13/2020	2	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
3/10/2020	2	City Council	AMENDED	Pass
3/10/2020	1	City Council	Passed Finally, As Amended	Pass
3/4/2020	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
2/26/2020	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
2/19/2020	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
2/12/2020	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
2/5/2020	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
1/29/2020	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
1/28/2020	1	City Council	RECOMMITTED	Pass
1/22/2020	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
1/14/2020	1	City Council	Read and referred

Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 241: Amusement Tax, Section 241.01: Definitions, to update language in the city code. The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows: Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code is hereby amended at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 241: Amusement Tax, Section 241.01:
Definitions, as follows:

Body
The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.

CHAPTER 241: - AMUSEMENT TAX

? 241.01 - DEFINITIONS.

As used in this Chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
(a) AMUSEMENT. All manner and forms of entertainment, including concerts, moving picture shows, vaudeville, circus, carnival and side shows; all forms of entertainment at fair grounds and amusement parks; athletic contests including wrestling matches, boxing and sparring exhibitions, football, basketball and baseball games, skating, golfing, tennis, hockey, bathing, swimming, archery, shooting, riding, dancing and all other forms of diversion, sport, recreation or pastime; shows, exhibitions, contests, displays and games, and all other methods of obtaining admission charges, donations, contributions or monetary charges of any character, from the general public or a limited or selected number thereof, directly or indirectly, in return for other than tangible property, or specific personal professional services; provided that the term AMUSEMENT shall not include any Exempt Amusement or any amusement located outside the City limits private annual affairs sponsored by nonprofit organizations for members and their guests at which the admission charges or contribution equal or approximate the expenses.

(b) ESTABLISHED PRICE. Regular monetary charge of any character, including donations and contributions, fixed and exacted or in any manner received by producers, as herein defined, from the general public or a limited or s...