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Sec. 21-14. Corporations; in general. In the event that any business conducted, managed or carried on in the city is organized as a general law corporation, pursuant to the California General Corporation Law, the scheduled license fee need be paid only by the corporation and not by any such individual shareholder thereof. Sec. 21-15. Professional corporations. In the event that any business conducted, managed or carried on in the city is organized as a professional corporation, the scheduled license fee need be paid only by the corporation and not by any such individual shareholder thereof. Sec. 21-16. Evidence of doing business. When any person shall by use of signs, circulars, cards, telephone books, newspapers, or trade publications, advertise, holdout, or represent that he or she is in business in the city, or when any person holds an active license or permit issued by a governmental agency indicating that he or she is in business within the city, or when any person gives other evidence of transacting and carrying on business as may be defined elsewhere herein and such person fails to deny in a sworn statement given to the Collector that he or she is not "engaged in business" within the city, after being requested to do so by the Collector, then these facts shall be considered prima facie evidence that he or she is conducting a business in the city. Sec. 21-17. Effect of chapter on other ordinances. Persons required to pay a license tax for transacting or carrying on any business under this chapter shall not be relieved from the payment of any tax for the privilege of doing such business required under any other provisions of this Code and shall remain subject to all regulatory provisions. Sec. 21-18. No required permits waived. The business license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter constitutes a receipt for the license fee paid and shall have no other legal effect. A business license is a requirement, not a permit, to transact and carry on any business activity within this city. The business license tax receipt is evidence only of the fact that such tax has been paid. Neither the payment of the tax nor the possession of the business tax receipt authorizes, permits or allows the doing of any act which the person paying or holding the same would not otherwise be entitled to do; and any permit, license, variance or other instrument of approval or evidence that any conditions exist as required by any other section of this Code or by any statute or code provisions of the state must first be obtained or complied with before the doing of any act or thing for which it is required. 20 -