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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 1927-576 Amends §§ 15, 25, 28 and 36 of Ord. 538, tax levy and collection; repeals Ord. 402 (Repealed by 1366)116. ORDINANCE NO. 576 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 15, 25, 28 APED 36 OF ORDINANCE NO. 538 ENTITLE "AN ORDXNANCE PROVIDING A. SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING, LEVYING AND COLLECTING CITY FAXES IN THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA; ANI) REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 444 OF THE CITY OF NATI<<NAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED 'AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING A SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING, LEVYING AND COLLECTING CITY TAXES IN THE CITY OF NATI)NAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 402." The Board of Trustees of the City nal C Caltto do ordain as follows. SECTION 1. That Section 15 csf ardinanee No. 638 of the City of National City, California, enti't .ed "An Ordinance Providing a ystes for Assessing, Levying and Collecting City Taxes in the City of rational City, California; and Repealing Ordinance No. 444 of the City of National City, California, entitled 'An Ordinance Providing a System for Assessin;, Levying and Collecting Or Taxes in the City of National City, California, and Repealing Ordinance No. 402 ", be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows; The Board of Trustees shall meet at their usual place of nesting on the second Monday of August of each year, at 10 o'clock A. L7., and sit as a Board of Equalisation and shall continue in sesalon from day to day for at least three days and until all the returns of the .Assessors have been rectified. No reduction must be, made in the valuation of property unless the party affected thereby or his agent makes and files with the Board a written application therefor, verified by his oath showing the facts upon which it is claimed such reduction is made. Before the Board grants the appli- cation or makes any reduction applied for, it must first examine on oath the person or the agent snaking the application touching the value of the property of such person. No reduction must be made unless such person or the agent making the application attends and 117. answers ail questions pertinent to the inquiry. Upon the oaring of the application, the Board may subpoena such witnesses, hear and take such evidence in relation to the subject pending as it may deem proper. During the session of the Board, the City Assessor and any Deputy whose testimony is needed, meet be present and may make any statement or introduce and examine witnesses on the ques- tion before the Board. SECTION 2. That Section 25 of said Ordinance No. 538 be and the same ie hereby amended to read as follows: Within five days after the receipt of the assessment book, the City Treasurer must publish a notice specifying: First: That taxes will be delinquent on the last Monday in December next thereafter at 5:00 P.M., and that unless paid prior thereto, 5% will be added to the amount thereof. Second: The time and place at which payment of taxes may be made. The notice in every case must be published for two weeks in some weekly or daily newspaper published in the City, if there is one, or if there is not, then by posting it in three public places in the City, SECTION 3. That Section 28 of said Ordinance No. 538 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: On the last Monday of December of each year, at 5:00 o'clock P.M., all unpaid taxes are delinquent, and thereafter the tax collector must collect for the use of the City an addition of 5%. SECTION 4. That Section 36 of said Ordtnanae No. 538 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: The City Treasurer shall collect in addition to the taxes due on the delinquent list and five per centum added thereto, 118. seventy-fiVe cents (7 costa on each lot, piece or tract of land separately assessed which ha/1 appear on the delinquent tax list as actually published, and shall be charged therewith by the City Clerk. SECTIO 5 The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause this Ordinanoe to be published once in The National City News, a news- paper printed and published in said City, and of general circulation therein. SECTION 6. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force on the thirty-first day after its final passage. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Trustees of the City of National City, California, this 20th day af December ANE3: Trusteea; Addis, Bird, Cordingly, Fritz, -, 1927, by the following vote, to.wit: Murray NA/St Trustees* None ABSENT: Trustee's: ATTEST: 0. A. Mullen ciiy cleAt (SEAL) None Alex Murray Preaident of the Board of Trustees of the City of National City, California, I hereby approve the foregoing Ordinance this 20tay of December le27. Murray President of the Board of Trust of the City of National City, California. 119. I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 576 of the Ordinances of the City of National City, California, as adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City, and approved by the President of said Board of Trustees on the 20th. day of December, 1927; and the title of said Ordinance is as follows: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1.5, 25, 28 AND 38 OF ORDINANCE NO. 538 ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING A SYS'1`M FOR ASSESSING, LEVYING AND COLLECTING CITY TAXES IN THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 444 OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED 'AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING A SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING, LEVYING AND COLLECTING CITY TAXES IN THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 402"; and said Ordinance was published once in a regular issue of The National City News, as required by law. City Clerk of the City of National City, California.