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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 11025, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 9, 1972, BY PROVIDING FOR ESTABLISH-
MENT OF A FOUR PERCENT (a %) HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX; PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; MAKING VIOLATIONS A MISDEMEANOR
PUNISHABLE BY A FINE NOT EXCEEDING $200; PROVIDING A
SEVERANCE CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
WHEREAS, Article 1269] -4.1 (3a), provides as follows: "Sec. 3a.
Any such city is hereby authorized to levy by ordinance a tax upon the cost
of occupancy of any sleeping room furnished by any hotel, where the cost of
occupancy is at the rate of $2 or more per day. Such tax may not exceed
four percent of the consideration paid by the occupant of the sleeping
room to the hotel "; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has found that the additional income
which would become available through the establishment of a four percent
(4%) Hotel Occupancy Tax is expressly needed for the purposes set forth in
Section 3c of Article 1269] -4.1 and that expenditures of such a four percent
(4 %) tax would be in the best interest of the total community:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That pursuant to the provisions of Article 1269] -4.1,
Section 3a, the said City Council hereby levies, for the purposes provided
in Article 1269] -4.1, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, a tax upon the
cost of occupancy of any room or space furnished by any hotel where such
cost of occupancy is at the rate of Two Dollars ($2) or more per day,
such tax to be equal to four percent (4%) of the consideration paid by the
occupant of such room, space or facility to such hotel exclusive of other
occupancy taxes imposed by other governmental agencies, and by the adoption
of the provisions herein set forth, Ordinance No. 11025, passed and approved
by the City Council on August 9, 1972, is hereby amended.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be and become effective on and
after Aoril 1. 1978
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SECTION 3. If any person required by the provisions of this
ordinance to collect the tax imposed herein, or make reports as required
herein, and pay to the Tax Assessor and Collector the tax imposed herein,
shall fail to collect such tax, file such report, or pay such tax, or if
any such person shall file a false report, or if any such person shall violate
any of the provisions of this ordinance, such person shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be punished by fine not to exceed $200,
and shall pay to the Tax Assessor and Collector the tax due, together with a
penalty of five percent (5 %) of the tax due for each thirty days that the
same is not timely filed.
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 5. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi, which publication shall contain
the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its
second reading on this the,22,,,,.Way of 19_g, by the
following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley ,A—
David Diaz
Ruth Gill e
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
That the foregoing ordinance was read fo he sec nd time and a sed to its
third reading on this the_ _day of � 19 by the
following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt �. L
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
That the foregoing ordinanc as rea for the thiFg time and passed finally
on this the X day of , 19 % Y , by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley.
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the_L_day of . 19
ATTEST:
C y Secretary MAYOR
T CITY RPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
, ')/DAY OF 19 V:
J. BRUCE AAY,CO/CK, CITY CWORNEY
By.
AssistaM Attorney qq
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, tss.
County of Nueces. J *
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day P,--!nna)1T came....._- _...._.._
Diving P - u - 1i - d - o - --------- ------ . ......... — who being first duly sw— , L:cording to law, says that he is the
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Daily Newspapers publisheJ , –orpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
OF ORDINANCE N0. 14213...
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in
on the_ -13 day 19 7q' MWAYAW.& . .....
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Subscribed and sworn to before me y ......... . March .............. ........ lg--.a _
Eugenia S. Cortez rae
Notary lig Nueces County, Texas
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCE NO. 14213
AMENDING ORDINANCE
NO. 11025, PASSED AND AP-
PROVED BY THE. CITY
CO,
I,!i4CIL ON AUGUS.T9, 197$
BY
44 R0 IDING FOR ESTAB- 1
LISHMENT OF A FOUR PER -
',CENT (4 %) HOTEL OCCU -4
'PANCY TAX; PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE;
'MAKING VIOLATIONS A
(MISDEMEANOR PUNISH -
TABLE BY A FINE NOT FX_
ICEEDING 5200; PROVIDING
A SEVERANCE CLAUSE;',
PROVIDING FOR PUB- h
LICATION.
WAS PASSED AND APPROV-
ED by the Oty Coundl of the,
City of Corpus Christi, Texas I
during the Regular Council
Meeting held on March 8, 19M
at 2:00 p.m, arid provides that It
shall be In full force and effect
from and after Its passage and
Ipublication one time In the ofR-
clal publication of the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas.
ISSUED UNDER MY HAND
AND SEAL of the City of Car -
p s Christi, t1 � this 9th day
a -Bill G. Read
City secretary