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HomeMy WebLinkAbout13856 ORD - 07/27/1977jkh:7- 26 -77; 1st , V AN ORDINANCE FINDING THAT THE GRANTING OF A $6,'000 ASSESSED VALUE EXEMPTION FROM AD VALOREM TAXES FOR PERSONS` RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD WHO ARE 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; EXEMPTING FROM ALL AD VALOREM TAXES LEVIED SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,000) OF THE ASSESSED TAXABLE VALUE OF SAID RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD OF SAID PERSONS UPON PROPER APPLICATION FOR SAID EXEMPTION BEING MADE AS PROVIDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 11247, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 10TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1973, AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCES NOS. 11918 AND 12211; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS CUMULATIVE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVID- ING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, Article�VIII, Section lb, Texas Constitution, was amended as provided by S.J.R. No. 7, Acts 62nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1971, by vote of the citizens of the State on November 7, 1972, so as to authorize any city to exempt not less than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) of the N assessed value of residence homesteads of persons sixty -five (65) years of age or older from all ad valorem taxes levied; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 11001, passed and approved by the City Council on July 31, 1972, prescribed the taxes to be levied, assessed and collected by the City for the year 1972 and for each succeeding year; and WHEREAS, by passage of Ordinance No. 11247, on January 10, 1973, amended by Ordinance No. 11918, on February 20, 1974, the City Council exempted from all ad valorem taxes levied after January 1, 1973, Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) of the assessed taxable value of residence homesteads, and by Ordinance No. 12211, on August 7, 1974, the City Council exempted from ad valorem taxes levied after January 1, 1974, Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000) of the assessed taxable value of residence homesteads, as that term is defined by the State Constitution and law, of persons sixty -five (65) years of age or older, provided the owner thereof or his duly authorized agent or attorney applied at the City Tax Office for the exemption on the form adopted; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi finds hereby that providing an exemption of $6,000 is advantageous to those tax- paying citizens who are sixty -five years of age or older, and said exemption will not unduly burden the other taxpaying citizens, the City's financial condition, impair the retirement of City bonds or impair the obligations of the contract by which any debt was created: MICROFILMED 13856 JUL 0 7 1980 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That there is hereby exempted from all ad valorem taxes levied on or after January 1, 1977, Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) of the assessed taxable value of residence homesteads, as that term is defined by the State Constitution and law, of persons sixty -five (65) years of age or older, provided the owner thereof or his duly authorized agent or attorney applies at the City Tax Office for said exemption on the form herein adopted, a copy of which is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A ", and made a part hereof for all pertinent purposes. SECTION 2. That this ordinance is and shall be construed as cumulative of all other ordinances and merely increases the exemption from $4,000 to $6,000. SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall be effective from and after January 1, 1977. SECTION 4. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION S. Publication shallbe made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, by publishing the caption of the ordinance, stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance. SECTION 6. The necessity to adopt provisions enabling taxpaying citizens who are sixty -five years of age or older to have exempted from all ad valorem taxation $6,000 of the assessed taxable value of residence home- steads, as more fully set forth herein creates a public emergency and an impera- tive public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule providing that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of said -2- 13856 Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the_kj�L day of, 1977. ATTEST: City Secretary A VED: )L DAY OF JULY, 1977: J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY By�A sistant Cit ttorney MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 13856 APPLICATION FOR $6,000 ASSESSMENT EMWTION FOR PERSONS 65 YEARS OLD OR OLDER • Date 1. Description of Property: 2. Ownership of Described Property: 3. Names and ages of persons residing at Property: b. Is Property Described Homestead as that term is defined under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas? Yes No 5. By signing this form i hereby affirm that the foregoii.g statements are true and correct and I am the head of the family residing in the aforesaid homestead. Aclmowledgment: Clerk, Tax Dffice Signature - 11''4" Y _ Corpus Christi, Texas -c—L'day of 19�_ TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas w For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. It - Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ERAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jason Luby Eduardo de Ases s� David Diaz Ruth Gill Bob Gulley _ t Gabe Lozano, Sr. Edward L•. Sample The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jason ,Luby n, _ Eduardo de Ases David Diaz Ruth Gill Bob Gulley _ Gabe Lozano, Sr. Edward L. Sample 13856 . f 6 y `r d I PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, hs: County of Nueces. Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ... .......................... . .... Gloria .... Garza , who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the .t, . -AS C4L1F1trl) 1F> .......................... ............................... of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of LEGALS...NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE _ NO. 13A5. 6:., ..................................... _ .... :..................... of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in - ..................Calle r Times....- .................- ..._....._— . on the..- y...... day of- ........ 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