Each and every seller of electricity, metered or bottled gas (natural or manufactured),
water service and telecommunication services, as each may be defined in F.S. § 166.231,
shall keep complete and accurate records showing all sales within the corporate municipal
limits of the city of each public service; and those records shall be open to inspection
and audit by the city. Those records shall show at the least the price charged upon
each sale, the date thereof, the date of payment, and the tax so levied and collected.
To the extent applicable, the provisions of F.S. § 166.231, relating to the retaining
of the records, the availability of the records and the status of the records and
any amendments to the statute relating to the records, are hereby incorporated within
this article as if fully set forth in this article. To the extent that F.S. § 166.231
is either inapplicable or silent as to the records involved, it is the intent that
such records be public records and reasonably available for inspection by the city
upon reasonable notice to the custodian of the records involved.
