Every club licensed and exercising any of the privileges conferred by this chapter or by any rules or regulations of the commission and subject to the payment of the gross receipts tax shall, within twenty-four hours after each contest, submit to the secretary of the commission a written report showing the actual number of tickets sold, the gross receipts therefrom, and the number of press and complimentary tickets. Each shall, within twenty-four hours, pay to the commission the tax levied upon its gross receipts. The secretary of the commission, or a representative delegated by him, shall be present at the counting of the tickets, which shall be placed by the ticket-takers at each door of the building in which the exhibition is being held into a locked box which shall not be opened except in the presence of the secretary or his representative. The number and disbursement of complimentary tickets shall be regulated by the commission, provided, that in no case shall the number of such complimentary tickets exceed three hundred for each performance.
La. R.S. § 4:68