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e . Ordinance No. 1100 , Page 6. e appeal addressed to the City Commission in which it is requested that the Commission grant him a hearing upon the question of whether or not the license shall be revoked. Such appeal, if made and filed as prescribed herein, shall operate as a stay or postponement of the revocation, until such time as the Commission shall grant a hearing and make final adjudication upon the question of whether or not the license should be revoked. Such hearing shall be held within thirty (30) days after the date of the filing of the appeal. Within seven (7) days after final adjournment of the hearing, the Commission shall cause a written deduction of its judgment thereon to be filed with the City Clerk. Such action and judgment of the Commission, after hearing all the evidence and facts, shall be final and conclusive as to all parties, and shall be, in all cases, by a majority vote. Section 4~-15. Occupational tax . (1) Every owner who owns, controls, possesses, exhibits, displays or who permits to be exhibited or displayed in the City, any skill or pleasure oriented coin-operated machine shall pay on every such machine, an annual occupational tax in the amount of seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50). Such occupational tax shall be payable to the City Clerk on or before the fifteenth day of December for the next succeeding calendar year. (2) The City Clerk shall issue a 'certificate evidencing payment of such occupational tax, and such certificate shall be securely attached to the machine in a manner that will require continued application of steam and water to remove the same, or such certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous place at or near the machine so as to be easily seen by the public. The certificate affixed to the machine shall be valid only for the machine which must be identified by serial number. Any game hall operator who shall exhibit or display within the City, any skill or pleasure oriented coin-operated machine without having annexed or attached thereto a valid certificate issued by the City Clerk, showing payment of the tax due thereon for the current year, shall be deemed to have violated this Article. e (3) The occupational tax provided for hereunder shall not be subject to proration or reduction for payment for a period less than twelve (12) calendar months. (4) The owner of any room, hall, building, tent, or any enclosed or partially enclosed space in which is exhibited for hire, revenue, fee or gain of any kind fewer than four (4) skill or pleasure oriented coin-operated machines shall not be exempt from the payment of occupational tax. Provided, however, that religious, charitable, educational or benevolent organizations, as defined in Section 4~-1, shall be exempt from the payment of this tax. Section 4~-l6. Nonpayment of occupational tax . (1) The City Clerk or his designee may seal, in a manner that will prevent further operation, any coin-operated amusement machine subject to the payment of the occupational tax upon which the tax levied by this Article has not been paid. Any person subject to this Section shall be required to pay a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for release of any machine sealed, as provided herein, for nonpayment of the tax.