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Home My WebLink About15037 ORD - 08/01/1979AN ORDINANCE FINDING THAT THE GRANTING OF A $18,000 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 EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($18,000) 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, 12211, 13856 AND 14417; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS CUMULATIVE, 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, 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 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 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 home- steads, and by Ordinance No. 14417, on August 2, 1978, the City Council exempted from ad valorem taxes levied after January 1, 1978, Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($13,500) 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 �0�GM7,n 4424 15037 WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi finds hereby that providing an exemption of $18,000 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, 1979, Eighteen Thousand Dollars ($18,000) 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 $13,500 to $18,000. SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall be effective from and after January 1, 1979. 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 ad valorem taxation $18,000 of the assessed taxable value of residence home- steads, 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 1st day of August, 1979. ATTEST: 1/11/-‘6 C ty Secretary MAYOR APPROVED: 1st DAY OF AUGUST, 1979: J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY By Assistant Cit orney THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS Corpus Christi, Texas filt/—y of 1979 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. The Charter rule Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky Respectfully, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS was suspended The above ordinance Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky by the following vote: was passed by the following vote: 15037 NOTICE OF PASSAGEr�. - OF ORDINANCE ,{{ 15037 �- FINDIN THAT TN GRANTING OF A S1&000 A PT SESSED VALUE EXEM TION FROM AD VALOREM TAXES FOR PERSONS'I RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD WHO ARE 65 YEARS OF AGEI OR OLDER I5 IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITI- ZENS OF CORPUS CHRISTI: EXEMPTING FROM ALL AO VALOREM TAXES LEVIED EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS (S1&000) OF THE ASSESSED TAXABLE VAL- UE OF SAID RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD OF SAID PER., SONS UPON PROPER AP-, PLICATION FOR SAID, EXEMPTION BEING MADS) AS PROVIDED BY OROI.1 NANCE NO. 11247, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THEI CITY COUNCIL ON THE 10TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1973, AS' AMENDED BY ORDI NANCES NOS. 11919, 1221i, 13956 AND 14417; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS CUMULATIVE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVER- ABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGEN- CY. WAS PASSED AND APPROV- ED by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas during the Regular Council Meeting held on the 1st day of January, 1979 at 2:00 p.m. and provides that It shall be In full force and effect from and after Its passage and publication one time In the official publication of the City of Corpus ChriseI, Texas. ISSUED UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL of the City of Cor- pus Christi, Texas, this 2nd day of August, 1979. -s-Bill G. Read, City Secretary Corpus Christi, Texas PUBLIS"" '','S AFFIDAVIT 1- - STATE OF TEXAS, lss: County of Nueces. 10o37 Before m, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Elma Rodela who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the Accounting Clerk 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 Notice os Passage of Ordinance No. 15037 Finding that the Grenting of a ..... .... of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in Corpus Christi Caller -Times , oh the._6.th._ day of August 19.7Q.., and once each ximeareenizac consecutive 1 Time.��V 41: 30 Elma Rodela �l� 1G.. J Accounting Cler Subscribed and sworn to before me this £Ith.-day of August 19 79 -- Lois Winn Notary Public, ueces County, Texas i st.