The following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) BUSINESS. All activities engaged in, or caused to be engaged in, by any person with the object of gain, profit, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect to such person.

(2) COUNTY. Baldwin County, Alabama.

(3) EXEMPT ORGANIZATION. Any organization exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. §501, as in effect from time to time.

(4) GROSS PROCEEDS. The value proceeding or accruing from leasing or renting tangible personal property, without any deduction on account of the cost of the property so leased or rented, the cost of materials used, labor or service cost, interest paid, or any other expenses whatsoever, and without any deduction on account of loss and shall also include on the part of any person claiming an exemption under subdivision (4) of Section 45-2-244.182 an amount equal to the amount of rental paid on any tangible personal property acquired under such exception and thereafter diverted to the use of such person.

(5) LEASING or RENTING. A transaction whereunder the person who owns or controls the possession of tangible personal property permits another person to have the possession or use thereof for a consideration and for the duration of a definite or indefinite period of time without transfer of the title to such property. The detention by the user thereof of freight cars, oxygen and acetylene tanks, and similar property, in respect of which detention a demurrage or per diem charge is made against the user of such property, shall not be deemed to constitute a transaction whereunder property is leased or rented to another within the meaning of this subpart.

(6) PERSON. Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, receiver, trust, estate, or other entity, or any other group or combination of any thereof acting as a unit.

(7) TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY. Personal property which may be seen, weighed, measured, felt, or touched, or is in any other manner perceptible to the senses. The term "tangible personal property" shall not include stocks, bonds, notes, insurance, or other contracts or securities.