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HomeMy WebLinkAbout144 - Advertising Taxi- y r v ORDINANCE NO. 444. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLEC- TION FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR OF A TAX OF FIFTEEN CENTS ON EACH ONE HUNDRED DOL. LARS FOR ADVERTISING PUR- POSES, PROVIDIN�( THE MAN- NER OF USING SUCH TAX AND THE TIME PF COLLECTIONS THEREOF; CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE SUBMIS SION OF THIS ORDINANCE TOI ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF1 NEWPORT BEACH, AND PROVID- ING FOR THE GIVING OF NOTICE.( The Board of Trustees of the 'Nty of Newport Beach do ordain as follows: Sec. 1. A tax of fifteen cents is hereby provided for and levied in each fiscal year upon each one hundred dol- lars'of assessed value of all property: In the City of Newport Beach, which is taxable therein for municipal pun poses. Sec. 2. The tax provided for In Sec. 1 of this Ordinance shall be in addl -I tlon to all other taxes now authorized by law to be levied. The Tax Collect. or shall compute the amount of said 1 tax to be paid by each tax payer based upon the equalized assessed value of l property assessed to such tax payer, and said tax §hall be added to the tax roll of the City of Newport Beach, and 'shown upon all tax statements and tax receipts issued by the Tax Collector. The time of collecting said tax and the mode and manner of levying and collecting the tax herein provided for shall be the same as is provided for, apply to and govern in the assessment and collection of other municipal tax- es In and for the City of Newport; Beach. Sec. 3. The said tax when collect- led shall be paid Into the treasury of, the City of Newport Beach in the same manner and at the same time as .all other taxes of the City of Newport Beach to the credit of the advertising fund, which fund is hereby created for the reception and disbursement of said tax. The money realized from said tax shall be expended for legitt- mate advertising purposes of the City of Newport Beach in any manner that the Board of Trustees may deem best, providing that all such advertising shall be first submitted to and ap. proved by the Board of Trustees, and all money expended therefor shall be by the usual claim presented against the City, duly audited and a warrant issued upon the Treasury of the City of Newport Beach charged against said advertising' fund. Sec. -4 in each fiscal -year subee- luent. to the .yeiyr .1918, the Board of rrustees may, fit )the same time and in the same manner provided for levying all other municipal taxes, levy the tax herein provided for; provided that In the fiscal Year 1918 said tax may be levied by the Board of Trustees of the City of Newport Beach as soon as this Ordinance shall become effective. Sec. 5. This Ordinance shall not become effective until the same shall have been submitted to the electors of the City of Newport Beach at a special election to be held for that .purpose. i Sec. 6. A spec al election is hereby called and ordered to be held at and within the City of Newport B918 and the 24th day of September, at said special of there shall be and is hereby submitted to the elect- ors of the City of Newport Beach this Ordinance, and at said special elec- tion the electors of the City of I Beach shall be and are hereby in- F voted to vote for and against this Or- dinance and the adoption thereof. Sec. 7. If at said special election a majority of the votes cast are in favor t of this Ordinance and if upon canvass- ing the votes so cast thereat, a major. ity of them are found to be in favor of the Ordinance, it shall become ef- fective and said tax shall be levied and collected and used in the manner provided for therein. Sec. 8. The Clerk of the City of Newport Beach shall give notice of such election by publication of said - notice at least once a- week for a peri- od of four weeks next prior to such election in a newspaper printed and published in the City of Newport Beach, such notice shall contain a copy of this Ordinance and the elect- ors of the City of Newport Beach shall be invited thereby to vote for or against the same. Sec. 9. Except as otherwise provid- ed for in this Ordinance, the election herein mentioned shall be held, con- ducted, carried on and the returns thereof made as provided for by law for holding municipal elections in the City of Newport Beach. (Sec. 10. T e� a Anil- orego ng Ordinance shall be published once in the NEWPORT NEWS, a newspaper lof general circulation printed, pub- lished and circulated, and upon said publication and being voted in favor of by a majority of the votes cast at the special election herein called, as shown by a canvass of said votes, it shall take effect and be in force. The above and foregoing Ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Newport Beach held on the 19th day of August, 1918, by the affirmative vote of the members of said Board hereafter set forth, and on said day was signed and approved by the Pres- Ildent thereof. Ayes— Trustees J. P. Greeley, J. J. Schnitker, Gen. P. Wilson, L. S. Wil- kinson. Noes —None. Absent— Trustee J. C. McCain. The above and foregoing Ordinance No. 144 being passed is this day ap- proved by me. J. P. GRE.ELEY, President of the Board of Trustees. [SEA'Lj Attest: J. ROYAL LEMON, Clerk. Of all of the foregoing Notice is hereby given. In Witness Whereof. I have here- unto affixed my official signature and I attested the same with the corporate seal of the City of Newport Beach this 22nd day of August, 1918. J. ROYAL LEMON, Clerk of the City of Newport Beach. Aug. 23, 30, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 1918 I,J.Royal Lemon, Clerk of the City of Newport Beach do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No J" is a true copy of an Ordi- nance passed by the Board of Trustees at a regular meeting held on the 19th day August 1918, and that same was printed and published according to law, c Clerk of he City of-Newport eac Cal- s