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(d) The Tax Administrator, from time to time, may survey the video service suppliers in the City to identify the various components of video service that are being offered to customers within the City, and the charges therefor. The Tax Administrator, thereafter, may issue and disseminate to such video service suppliers an administrative ruling identifying those components: i) that are necessary for or common to the receipt, use or enjoyment of video service; or, ii) which currently are or historically have been included in a bundled rate for video service by a local distribution company. Charges for such components shall be subject to the tax of subsection (a) above. (e) The tax imposed by this section shall be collected from the service user by the video service supplier, its billing agent, or a reseller of such services. In the case of video service, the service user shall be deemed to be the purchaser of the bulk video service (e.g., an apartment owner), unless such service is resold to individual users, in which case the service user shall be the ultimate purchaser of the video service. The amount of tax collected in one (1) month shall be remitted to the Tax Administrator, and must be received by the Tax Administrator on or before the last day of the following month or, at the option of the person required to collect or remit the tax, such person shall remit an estimated amount of the tax measured by the tax billed in the previous month or upon the payment pattern of the service user, which must be received by the Tax Administrator on or before the last day of the following month, provided that the service user shall submit an adjusted payment or request for credit, as appropriate, within sixty (60) days following each calendar quarter. The credit, if approved by the Tax Administrator, maybe applied against any subsequent tax bill that becomes due. Section 9. Section 2-4-217 EFFECT OF BUNDLING TAXABLE ITEMS WITH NON- TAXABLE ITEMS of the San Leandro Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: Except as otherwise provided by state or federal law, or as approved in writing by the Tax Administrator, if one or more non-taxable items are bundled or aggregated together with one or more taxable items (as provided for by this Chapter) under a single charge on a service user's bill, the entire single charge shall be deemed taxable. Section 10. Section 2-4-218 SUBSTANTIAL NEXUS/MINIMUNI CONTACTS of the San Leandro Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: For purposes of imposing a tax or establishing a duty to collect and remit a tax under this Chapter, "substantial nexus" and "minimum contacts" shall be construed broadly in favor of the imposition, collection and/or remittance of the utility users tax to the fullest extent permitted by state and federal law, and as it may change from time to time by judicial interpretation or by statutory enactment. Section 11. Section 2-4-221 FILING RETURN AND PAYMENT of the San Leandro 1Vlunicipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: Each person required by this Chapter to remit a tax shall file a return to the Tax Administrator, on forms approved by the Tax Administrator, on or before the due date. The ORDINANCE NO. 2004-014 1