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Home My WebLink About14417 ORD - 08/09/1978jkh:8 -2 -78; 1st AN ORDINANCE FINDING THAT THE GRANTING OF A $13,500 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 THIRTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($13,500) 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, 12211 AND 13856; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS CUMULATIVE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY °; AND PROVIDING 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, + 19715 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 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 home- steads, 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 residential homesteads, and by Ordinance No. 13856, on July 27, 1977, the City Council exempted from ad valorem taxes levied after January 1, 1977, Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) of the assessed taxable value of residential 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 MCROFILMED ,JUL 0 81y , 4444'7 1 WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi finds hereby that providing an exemption of $13,500 is advantageous to those taxpaying 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 retirement of City bonds or impair the obligations of the contract by which any debt was created: 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, 1978, Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($13,500) 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 $6,000 to $13,500. SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall be effective from and after January 1, 1978. 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, 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 -2- ad valorem taxation $13,500 of the assessed taxable value of residence homesteads, as more fully set forth herein creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the .zl� day of August, 1978. ATTEST: mil • lli Ow "City Secretary � - APPROVED: 2nd DAY OF AUGUST, 1978: 0. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY By i tant City Attorney MAYOR // THE CI(iY OF CHRISTI, TEXAS i ��:'•.F `. _ ��rY -.: r.. { »�1••SY,;< - _x,=+y�eyt' `aa'f::CVC.`i:`f: t: =r^•a - -- - - ;,C';,ey= <.- ='':• rrt.w[�"1'• �4 -y 3.vk:a _ �-$` � ter•-"'` , y%:ta:.�;;s ` _ _ : -a_::. s- -�.;�"�«ti_ a.S _ - "n`•aa`'.S_-5 C:• � �''_._'. -.. :� �3, � °: � v't`Y' • - .'`v�4::", _ ". _ _ _ - _- APPLICATION FOR 3,50 ASSESSMENT E}MSPTION FOR PERSONS'65'YEARS OLD OR OLDER Date 1. Description of Property: 2. Oonership of Described Property: 3. Names and ages of persons residing at Property: !�. 'is Property Described Homestead as that term is defined under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas? Yes 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. Signature - Ac'&aowledgment :. "`" ' may-: _ _ . ... e, . _ : .ti_ a .•Y_. -..Sc _ _ "S . i Corpus Christi, Texas day of 19-2L TO THE'MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus' Christi, Texas. 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. Respectfully, OR THE CI OF C CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter Rule was suspended 'Gabe Lozano, Sr. Bob Gulley David Diaz 'Ruth'Gill Joe Holt Tony Juarez, Jr. Edward L. Sample t. The above ordinance•was passed by a following vote: Gabe Lozano, Sr. Bob Gulley David Diaz Ruth Gill Joe Holt Tony Juarez, Jr. Edward L. Sample 14417 PUBLIS'HER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE F. TEXAS, C.:�4 ty Before -me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ................................ who being first duly sworn accordin g to law, says that he is thk ....................... ............ ..... A.CCOLUIN.I11G. ............ .......... ............................... 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 THE GRANTING OF of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in CAUER.JIMEa ... . ........................... on the.—.7 day of. AiLgi.Lst .......... . .... 19 .. 7j% nn1kMX0M=k ........................... AMMMRRMK PRK ..... . ........... 7103MMMIdimex ....... . ............................. . ... . ..... . ................ Times. 4060..._.._........... .... . ..... -c-6-u-n—U-1-n g Subscribed and sworn to before me this_ 1-6 . ...... . .. day oL ikagakk Au gust 19..7.a...._ Lois Wifin .... C ........ o u n t-y, T- -e- x-- -as- - - - — - - NOTICE OF 'ASSAAiE, •� OF CMD NAK_E NO. W; FfNOtNG,t?,4AT T-H GRANTING 0�" ' 113,5m A SESSED VAL.Th EXEM _ TION FROM r rVALORE TAXES FOR�PERSON RESIDRNCE HOMESTEA WHOAkE65YEARS00AG OR OLDER IS IN THE BE! INTEREST OF THE C19 —S OF THE CITY OF CO PU¢ CHMSTl; EXEMP'RN FROM ALL AD VALOREM UE OF EAID�RESIDE I¢SMESTEAD OF SAID 'ONS UPON PROPER PLICATI.N FOR 5 EXEMPTION BEING N AS PROVIDED BY 0 INANCE— NO— IIW,_B! AND EY CITY IL.ONTHE DAY Dtr NUAJCY, N7. AMENDED BY 00 i ,NANCES NOS. 11911f, I r ND 13156; PRDIOVIP HAT T+IIS- ORNANCI UNULATIVE, PROVIO FOR AN EFFECTIVE DA PROVIDING FOR AN FECTIVE DATE; PRO' ING FOR SEVERABILI AND PROVIDING FOR F LIGATION; AND DECL ING AN EMERGENCY. WAS PASSED AND PROVED by the City Court the City of Corpus Chi Texas during the Regular C t11 Meeting held on Augu: 1976 at 2:W pm, and prov 1 it shell be In full fora act from and after Its age and publication one tin e official publication of Ity of Corpus Chrlstb Ten ISSUED UNDERMY H/ 'ND SEAL of the City of us Christi, Texas this 3rd August, 1976. �Bill G. R i 1