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Any individual or entity who fails to pay the taxes required by this article when <br />due shall be subject to penalties and interest to as set forth in accordance with this <br />Chapter. The collector is not required to send a delinquency or other notice or bill to <br />any person subject to the provisions of this Chapter and failure to send such notice or <br />bill shall not affect the validity of any tax or penalty due under the provisions of this <br />Chapter. <br />(h) Payment of tax does not authorize unlawful business. <br />(1) The payment of a business tax required by this article, and its <br />acceptance by the City, shall not entitle any person to carry on any <br />Collective /Cooperative unless the person has complied with all of the <br />requirements of this code and all other applicable laws, nor to carry on any <br />Collective /Cooperative in any building or on any premises in the event that such <br />building or premises are situated in a zone or locality in which the conduct of <br />such Collective /Cooperative is in violation of any law. <br />(2) No tax paid under the provisions of this article shall be construed as <br />authorizing the conduct or continuance of any illegal or unlawful business, or any legal <br />business in an illegal manner, or any business <br />Nothing in this article implies or authorizes <br />distribution or possession of marijuana is legal <br />by California and federal law. Nothing in this <br />authorizing the sale of marijuana. <br />in violation of any ordinance of the city. <br />that any activity connected with the <br />unless otherwise authorized and allowed <br />section shall be applied or construed as <br />(i) Business license tax certificate - Required. <br />There are imposed upon all persons engaged in Collective /Cooperative in the <br />city taxes in the amounts prescribed in this article. It shall be unlawful for any person, <br />either for him or herself or for any other person, to commence, transact or carry on any <br />business in the city without first having procured a business license from the city under <br />this Chapter and having paid the taxes set forth in this article, and without complying <br />with any and all applicable provisions contained in this Chapter. The carrying on of any <br />Collective /Cooperative without complying with all the provisions of this article shall <br />constitute a separate violation of this Chapter for each and every day that such <br />Collective /Cooperative is so carried on. <br />Q) Classification of business license assessment type — term and renewal. <br />The business license issued to Marijuana Collectives /Cooperatives shall be <br />classed as a gross receipts assessment type, issued for the same term of license as set <br />forth in Section 21 -71 (c) and shall be subject to renewal in accordance with Sections <br />21- 72(c), 21- 73(c), and 21 -77 of this Chapter. <br />(k) Operative Date. <br />Upon the approval by the majority of the voters of the City of Santa Ana at the <br />16 <br />55D -24 <br />