HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #389 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 150 OF SAID CITY, EN_
TITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH PROVIDING FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION
OF CITY TAXES" AS AMENDED.
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do
ordain as follows:
Section 1: That Section 15 of Ordinance No. 150
entitled "An Ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach Providing I
for the Assessment and Collection of City Taxes" as amended, be
and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 15: The City Council shall meet at
its usual place of meeting on the second Monday in August of
each year, at 7: 30 o' clock P. M. , and sit as a Board of Equali-
zation, and shall continue in session from day to day until
all the returns of the assessor have been rectified. The City
Clerk shall be the Clerk of the Board of Equalization. "
Section 2: That Section 23 of Ordinance No. 150, as
amended, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
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"Section 23. On or before the day when taxes
are payable the Tax Collector must publish a notice specifying:
(a) . That the taxes on all personal property secured
by real property, and one-half of the taxes on all real property
will be due on the first day of November, and_ will be delinquent
on the fifth day of December next thereafter, at five o' clock P. M. ,
and that unless paid prior thereto eight (S�o) percent will be added
to the amount thereof, and that if said one-half be not paid. before
the twentieth day in April next, at five o' clock P. Mi. , an additional
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\ three (W percent will be added thereto. That the remaining one-half
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of the taxes on all real property will be payable on and after the
twentieth day of January next, and will be delinquent on the twentieth
day of April next thereafter, at five o' clock P. M. , and. that unless
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paid prior thereto three (3%) percent will be added to the
amount thereof.
(b) . That all taxes may be paid at the time the . first
installment is due and payable.
(c) . That said taxes will be due and payable to the
Tax Collector or his deputy. at his office in the City of Hunting-
ton Beach as designated in said notice and that the tax collector
will keep certain hours at such office; such notice must be pub-
lished for two weeks in the newspaper authorized to do the city
advertising. "
Section 3: That Section 27 of Ordinance No. 150, as
amended, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
"Section 27: On the fifth day of December of
each year, at five o' clock P. M. , all taxes then unpaid, except
the last installment of real property taxes, are delineuent, and
thereafter the Tax Collector must collect, for the use of the
city, an additional eight (8/o) percent thereon; provided, that
if they be not paid before the twentieth day of April next suc-
ceeding, at five. o' clock P. M. , he shall collect an additional
three (3%) percent thereon. On the twentieth day of April of
each year, at five o' clock P. M. , all the unpaid portion of
the remaining one-half of the taxes on all real property is
delinquent, and thereafter the Tax Collector must collect for
.the use of the city an additional three ( 3�o) percent thereon;
provided, that the entire tax on any real property may be paid i
at the time the first installment, as above provided, is due and
payable; and provided, further, that the taxes on all personal
property unsecured by real property shall be due and. payable
immediately after the assessment of said personal property /
is made and provided further that the tax collector shall collect (\ �
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fifty cents additional on each parcel of property separately
assessed., upon which there are unpaid taxes after the twentieth
day of April of each year at five o' clock P. M. "
Section 4: That a new section shall be added to Ordinance
No. 150, as amended, to be numbered as Section 59a and inserted
between Section 59 and Section 60, the same to read as follows:
"Section 59a. That property heretofore or hereafter
sold to the City of Huntington Beach for nonpayment of taxes
be redeemed upon such terms and such- conditions and on
the payment of such penalties and/or interest as are now provided
by law for the redemption of property- sold to the State for non-
payment of tares. "
Section 5: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be printed in the
Huntington Beach Jews, a newspaper printed, published and circu-
lated in the City of Huntington Beach, and thirty (30) days
thereafter it shall take effect and be in force.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach,California,this the 2nd day of Mareh,1936,
MAYOR
ATTEST:
City Clerk.
State of California, )
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County of Orange . )
I, C. R. FURR, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance was presented and read to the City Council
at a meeting of said City Council held
on the me day of e !ret)a f-X , 1936, and. was
\� again read to said City Council at a v/ur-
��\-` meeting held on the 2 't d day of AM p,- " , 1936 and.. was
passed and adopted by the following vote.
AYES: - Councilmen:
NOES: Councilmen: �a77 e I
ABSEI T: Councilmen. �
City Clerk