HomeMy WebLinkAbout02565 ORD - 07/26/1949AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND ASSESSMENT AND COLLEC-
TION OF A LICENSE TAX OR OCCUPATION TAX UPON
ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, CORPORATIONS OR ASSOCIATION
OF PERSONS PffiLSUING OR ENGAGING IN ANY CALLING,
OCCUPATION, PROFESSION, TRADE, VOCATION OR BUSI-
NESS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND ON WHICH A STATE LICENSE
OR OCCUPATION TAX IS LEVIED AND ASSESSED OR
COLLECTED; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
THEREWITH; KBERING IN EFFECT ALL LAWS NOT IN
CONFLICT THERENITA; AND DECLARING AN M[ERGEICY..
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
SECTION I:
That there is hereby levied and assessed and shall be collected
from every person, firm, corporation or association of persons pursuing
or that may pursue within the corporate limits of the City of Corpus Christi
any calling, occupation, profession, trade, vocation or business upon which
a State license tax or occupation tax is levier] under the laws of the State
of Texas a license or occupation tax equal to one -half of the said State
tax.
SUCTION II:
That the license or occupation taxes levied by this ordinance
shall be collected by the Assessor and Collector of Taxes of the City of
Corpus Christi and shall be paid to that officer by each and every person,
firm, corporation or association of persons before engaging in such calling,
occupation, profession, trade, vocation or business.
SECTION III:
That any person, firm corporation, or association of persons pur-
suing or engaging in the calling, occupation, profession, trade, vocation
or business upon which such license tax or occupation tax is levied with-
out having paid said license tax or occupation tax shall be guilty of a
misdaneanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than
$10.00 or more than $200.00 and each day of so offending shall be and con-
stitute a separate offense.
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SECTION Ns
That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here-
with be and the same are hereby repealed and that this ordinance be,in
force and effect from and after its passage and publication as required
by law, and insofar as this ordinance may be a re- enactment of any existing
ordinance, such re- enacted ordinances or provisions thereof are hereby
continued in full force and effect.
SECTION V2
The fact that certain provisions of prior existing ordinances
have been based on statutes of the State repealed since the date of the
enactment of the ordinances, and the fact that said provisions are no
longer in effect or in force creates a public emergency and imperative
public necessity requiring a suspension of the Charter rule providing
that no Ordinance or Resolution shall be passed finally on the day it is
introduced, and that such ordinance or Resolution shall be read at three
several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that
such public emergency and imperative necessity exists, and having requested
that said Charter rule be suspended and that this Ordinance be passed
finally on the date it is introduced, and that this Ordinance take effect
and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, it is so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of July, A. D. 1949.
MA OR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORMt
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Assistant city
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Co us Christi, Texas
TO THE MIMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going Ordinance, a public emergency and an 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 several meetings
of the City Council; I, therefore, hereby 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,
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest G
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon U
George L. Lowman
The above Ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman nn
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lawman
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