A person conducting or operating any place for entrance to which an admission charge is made shall, on a form prescribed by the finance director, make application to and procure from the city a certificate of registration which certificate shall be valid until the thirty-first day of December of the year in which it was issued. Such certificate of registration shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each ticket or box office where tickets of admission are sold. (Ord. 3801 § 5, 1982.)