HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2933 ORDINANCE NO. 2933
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE
BY AMENDING SECTIONS 3 .36 .010, 3 .36 .050 AND
3 .36 .130 RELATING TO 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 .010, 3 .36 .050 and 3 .36 .130 to
read as follows:
3 .36 .010 Definitions . Except where the context otherwise
requires, the definitions given in this section govern the
construction of this chapter :
(a) "City" means the city of Huntington Beach.
(b) "Month" means a calendar month.
(c ) "Person" means any domestic or foreign corporation,
firm, association, syndicate, joint stock company, partnership
of any kind, joint venture, club, Massachusetts business or
common law trust, society, individual or municipal corporation.
(d) "Service supplier" means any entity which receives
taxes paid and remits same as imposed by this chapter .
(e ) "Service user" means a person required to pay a tax
imposed by this chapter .
( f) "Tax administrator" means the finance director of the
city.
(g) "Telephone corporation, electrical corporation, gas
corporation, and water corporation" shall have the same meanings
as defined in sections 234 , 218 , 222 , and 241 respectively, of
the Public Utilities Code of the state of California, as said
sections existed on January 1, 1970 . "Electrical corporation"
and "water corporation" shall be construed to include any
organization, municipality or agency engaged in the selling or
supplying of electrical power or water to a service user;
however , as specified by Public Utilities Code section 218 , does
not include a corporation or person employing cogeneration
technology or producing power from other than a conventional
power source for the generation of electricity .
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1 ,31 ,151 Electricity tax . There is imposed a tax upon
every person in the city using electrical energy in the city.
The tax imposed by this section shall be at the rate of 5
percent of the charges made for such energy and shall be paid by
the person paying for such energy. "Charges" as used in this
section shall include charges made for :
(a) Metered energy; and
(b) Minimum charges for service, including customer
charges, service charges, demand charges, standby charges and
annual and monthly charges .
In the case of a service user employing cogeneration
technology, the tax imposed by this section shall be based upon
the legal rate per kilowatt cogenerated, as charged by the
applicable public utility.
3 .36 .130 Collection of tax. The amount of tax imposed by
this chapter shall be collected from the service user by the
service supplier .
SECTION 2 . This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 5th
day of July , 1988 .
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Ord. No. 2933
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 members 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 7th day of March
19 88 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 5th day of July 1988 , and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of
all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Kelly, Green, Finley, Mays, Winchell
NOES: Councilmen:
Bannister
ABSENT: Councilmen:u linen:
Erskine
42ityclerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
1, Alic;a 'ri. VJc�+;Ywcr:h CITY CLERK o' the City of
Eeoch and ex- Wr'o Clerk of the Gay
C�urc . :o je,ef.y ceitl',y tizi a synopsis or this
orclicance has been published in the ,
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in a ordanc with the City charter of said City.
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