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No statement shall be conclusive as to the matters set forth therein, nor shall the filing of <br />the same preclude the city from collecting by appropriate action such sum as is actually <br />due and payable hereunder. Such statement and each of the several items therein <br />contained shall be subject to audit and verification by the collector, his or her revenue <br />officers, or duly authorized employees or agents of the City, who are hereby authorized <br />to examine, audit, and inspect such books and records of any licensee or applicant for <br />license, as may be necessary in theirjudgment to verify or ascertain the amount of license <br />fee due. <br />All persons subject to the provisions of this Chapter shall keep complete and detailed <br />records of business transactions, including, but not limited to the following: rent collected, <br />daily_sales, sales taxes collected and paid to the state, any and all city, state and federal <br />taxes collected and remitted from cannabis sales, point of sales (POS) system detailed <br />daily sales data base and summary monthly sales reports, receipts, purchases, and other <br />expenditures, detailed general ledger, income statements, cash flow statements, balance <br />sheets, sales journals, cash disbursement journals and ledgers including payroll journals, <br />third -party staffing agency statements, lease agreements, and other reports regarding the <br />number and types of persons employed and/or otherwise engaged in the business, and <br />shall retain all such records for examination by the collector, his or her revenue officers, <br />or duly authorized employees or agents of the City. Such records shall be maintained for <br />the period of the current calendar year, and for a prior period of at least three (3) complete <br />calendar years or from the commencement of business within the city, whichever period <br />is least. In the event such records of any business are not maintained within the city and <br />are not reasonably made available for examination within the city, then such business <br />shall be responsible for the actual travel and lodging cost in connection with the <br />performance of said examination. <br />No person required to keep records under this section shall refuse to allow the collector, <br />his or her revenue officers, or duly authorized employees or agents of the City to examine <br />said records at reasonable times and places. Any person who willfully refuses to allow <br />said examination on demand and at a reasonable time and place as herein provided shall <br />be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. In addition, such willful refusal shall be cause for <br />suspension and/or revocation of such business' existing Santa Ana Business License as <br />set out in section 21-86 of this Chapter. <br />Section 12. Section 21-80.1 of Article VII of Chapter 21 of the Santa Ana <br />Municipal Code is hereby amended to read in full as follows: <br />Sec. 21-80.1. Same —Audit deficiency; application of penalty and interest; <br />voluntary compliance effect; —Abatement of penalty and interest application; <br />Exception for business license taxes assessed on a monthly basis; audit service <br />fees. <br />Ordinance No. NS-2972 <br />Page 21 of 25 <br />