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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2298 ORDINANCE NO. 2298 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTIONS 5. 32. 020, 5. 32. 030 AND 5. 32. 040, _AND AMENDING THE TITLE OF CHAPTER 5. 32, ALL PERTAINING TO NATURAL RESOURCES PRO- DUCTION FEES 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 the title of Chapter 5. 32 to read as follows : NATURAL RESOURCES PRODUCTION SECTION 2. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending Sections 5. 32. 020, 5. 32. 030 and 5. 32. 040 to read as follows : 5. 32.020 License--Terms . The term of such license shall be one 1 year commencing on July 1 of each year, beginning with July 1, 1978. At the end of the term of any license issued or renewed hereunder, such license shall be of no further force or effec- tive unless renewed as hereinafter provided. 5. 32. 030 License--Fees. Every person required by this chapter to have a license shall pay to the city of Huntington Beach the fees hereinafter provided, in the manner herein- after provided: (a) Prior to the issuance or renewal of such license, a base annual fee of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per well. Such base annual fee shall apply to each well producing oil or gas , or both. An annual fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) shall apply to each oil storage tank, heater treater tank, wash tank, gun barrel, gas trap, temporary or permanent water tank, water flood storage tank, waste pit storage tank, aboveground fuel storage tank, and commercial and industrial storage tank. (b) For the period commencing with the effective date of this amendment and ending June 30, 1979, and for each succeeding GH:ahb 7/3/78 1. fiscal year, and in addition to the base annual fee , an amount equalling ten cents ($. 10) per barrel of oil, dry or wet gas , produced by each well per quarter, or, in the alternative, a sum equal to 2 percent of the gross market price received by the producer for such oil, dry or wet gas , whichever amount is greater. 5. 32. 040 Base annual fee--Due when. The base annual fee required by this amendment to this chapter, shall be due and payable on or before July 1 of each fiscal year. Such base annual fee shall be delinquent on the day following such due date; provided, however, that for the period beginning July 1, 1978, every person required by this chapter to pay such base annual fee shall be granted a thirty (30) day grace period in which to meet the requirements imposed by this chapter, and no penalty shall be exacted therefor for the period up to and including August 1, 1978. SECTION 3. The Council finds that it is necessary for this ordinance to be adopted as an emergency measure, and such ordinance shall take effect June 30, 1978. The reasons for its urgency are as follows : (a) It is necessary that the police, fire and other public safety services of the city be maintained at not less than cur- rent levels of service. (b) The total of the funds which will be available to the city in the years following fiscal year 1977-1978 for all of the necessary services to be provided the citizens of the city will be inadequate to provide for the cost of such services without the imposition of additional taxes . (c) The addition to the California State Constitution of Article XIII A severely limits the city' s prerogative to provide needed and necessary revenues by the way of additional tax rev- enues after July 1, 1978, and therefore, it is of urgent ne- cessity that the tax increase imposed by this ordinance be adopted prior to July 1, 1978. SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause same to be published within fif- teen days of its passage in the Huntington Beach News , a news- paper of general circulation, printed and published in 2 . the County of Orange, PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held on the 29th day of June, 1978. Mayor ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: Alicia M. Wentworth City Clerk I!L ' affa" Deputy City Clerk City Attorney REVIEWED AND APPROVED: 01 City dministrator 3 . Emergency Ord. No. 2298 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected,. qualified and acting 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 foregoing ordinance was read to the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 29th day of June 19 78 and was passed and adopted by at least four-fifths (4/5) affirmative votes of said City Council. AYES: Councilmen: Thomas, MacAllister, Bailey, Mandic, Siebert, Shenkman NOES: Councilmen. None ABSENT: Councilmen: Pattinson Alicia M. Wentworth City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Hunti gton Beach, California BY: Deputy. FAa . Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City of C/ Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council, o hereby certify that this ordinance has y hed ' the Huntington Beach News on - ----------A?- ------nce ev' the City Chart r of said ty, City Clerk .---- ------ -- ------------- - -- -- - Deputy City Clerk �I s