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SECTION 6113 When License Required There are hereby imposed upon the businesses, trades and professions, callings and occupations specified in this Chapter license taxes in the amounts hereinafter prescribed. It shall be unlawful for any person to transact and carry on any business, trade, profession, calling or occupation in the City without first having procured a license from said City to do so or without complying with any and all applicable provisions of this article. This section shall not be construed to require any person to obtain a license prior to doing business within the City if such requirement conflicts with applicable statutes of the United States or of the State of California. Persons not required to obtain a license prior to doing business within the City because of conflict with applicable statutes of the United States or of the State of California shall be liable for payment of the tax imposed by this Chapter but shall not be subject to any penal provisions of this code for such non-payment. Said tax shall be collected in a civil action. SECTION 6114. Deposit of License Taxes Ail fees and penalties required under the provisions of this Chapter shall be paid into the City Treasury and deposited in the general fund of the City. SECTION 6115 Branch Establishments - More Than One T~pe of Business A separate license must be obtained for each branch establish- ment or location of the business transacted and carried on and for each separate type of business at the same location, and each license shall authorize the licensee to transact and carry on only the business licensed thereby at the location or in the manner designated in such license; provided that warehouses or distributing plants used in connection with and incidental to a business licensed under the provisions of this Section shall not be deemed to be separate places of business or branch establish- ments; provided further that no business transactions shall be carried on in such incidental or supplemental warehouses or distributing plants. SECTION 6116 Exemption-Conflicts With Federal Or State Law Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed or construed to apply to any person transacting or carrying on any business exempt from business license taxes by virtue of the Constitution or applicable statutes of the United States or the State of California. SECTION 6116.1 Exemption - Burden on Interstate Commerce None of the license taxes provided for in this Chapter shall be so applied as to occasion an undue burden upon interstate commerce. In any case where a license tax is claimed by a licensee or applicant for license to place an undue burden upon such commerce, he may apply to the Director of Finance for an adjustment of the tax so that it shall not be discriminatory or unreasonable as to such commerce. Such application may be made before, at, or within six months after payment of the prescribed license tax. The applicant shall by affidavit and supporting testimony show his method of business and the gross volume or estimated gross volume of business and such other information as the Director of Finance may deem necessary in order to determine the extent, if any, of undue burden on such commerce. The Director of Finance shall then conduct an investi- gation and, after having first obtained the approval of the City - 2 -