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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2211 ORDINANCE NO. 2211 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTIONS 3. 36 .160 THROUGH 3. 36.210 PERTAINING TO THE PAYMENT OF UTILITIES TAX The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does ordain as follows : SECTION 1. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending Sections 3. 36.160 through 3. 36. 210 to read as follows : 3. 36. 160 Filing return and payment. Each service supplier shall make a return to the tax administrator, on forms provided by him, stating the amount of taxes billed by the service sup- plier during the preceding month. The full amount of the tax collected shall be included with the return and filed with the tax administrator. The tax administrator is authorized to require such further information as he deems necessary to determine properly if the tax here imposed is being levied and collected in accordance with this chapter. Returns must be postmarked with prepaid postage and properly addressed, or personally delivered to the tax administrator on or before the 20th of each month. Returns are due immediately upon cessation of business for any reason. 3. 36. 170 Delinquent when. Taxes collected from a service user which are not filed with the tax administrator on or before the due dates provided in this chapter are delinquent . 3. 36. 180 Penalty--Effect . Penalties for delinquency in payment of any tax collected or any deficiency determination, shall attach and be paid by the person required to collect and remit at the rate of 15 percent of the total tax collected or imposed herein. 3. 36. 190 Penalty--Imposed by administrator. The tax ad- ministrator shall have power to impose additional penalties upon persons required to collect taxes under the provisions of this chapter for fraud or negligence in reporting or paying at the rate of 15 percent of the amount of the tax collected or as recomputed by the tax administrator. JG:ahb 1 . 3. 36. 200 Penalty--Combining nature. Every penalty im- posed under the provisions of this chapter shall become a part of the tax required to be paid. 3. 36 . 210 Actions to collect . Any tax required to be paid by a service user under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a debt owed by the service user to the city . Any such tax collected from a service user which has not been paid to the tax administrator shall be deemed a debt owed to the city by the . person required to collect and pay. Any person owing money to the city under the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to an action brought in the name of the city for the recovery of such amount . SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days after its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause same to be published within fifteen days after adoption in the Huntington Beach News, a weekly news- paper of general circulation, printed and published in Huntington Beach, California. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the lst day of August , 19 77. .4 ATTEST: Alicia M. Wentworth City Clerk Mayor APPROVED AS TO FORM: By �` � Deputy City Clerk City Atf6rney INITIATED AND APPROVED: City Administrator 2 Ord. No. 221 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss: CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of member$ of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 18th day of July 1977 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 1st day of August , 19 77 , and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council. AYES: Councilmen: Bartlett, Wieder, Coen, Gibbs, Siebert, Shenkman, Pattinson NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None Alicia M. Wentworth City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California By Deputy City Clerk I, Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City of } Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council, do hereby certify that this ordinance has been pu'',N�hsd in the Huntington Beach Nows on -'� > - In accordanceJ, h t C"ty C a of said City. ALICIA M. WENTWORTH City Clerk Deput City Clerk