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Home My WebLink About15680 ORD - 08/06/1980• AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING THE TAXES TO BE LEVIED, ASSESSED AND COT.T.FCTED BY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, FOR THE YEAR 1980 AND FOR EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR THEREAFTER UNTIL OTHERWISE PROVIDED AND ORDAINED AND SUCH OTHER YEARS AS THE SAME MAY BE APPLICABLE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That there is hereby levied, to be assessed and collected in current money of the United States of America, for the use of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, for the year 1980, and for each succeeding year thereafter, until otherwise provided and ordained, an annual ad valorem tax of $0.42 on each One Hundred Dollar value thereof, on all property, real, personal, and mixed, located within the said City of Corpus Christi, upon which a tax is authorized to be levied by law, and upon all franchises of all individuals, partners and corpora- tions holding franchises in the City from said City of Corpus Christi, Texas, said tax to be appropriated to the payment and defrayment of current expenses of the government, including but not limited to street improvement of said City. Said tax shall be assessed upon 100 percent of the cash market value of property subject thereto. SECTION 2. That there is hereby levied to be assessed and collected in current money of the United States of America for the use of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, for the year 1980 and for each succeeding year thereafter, until otherwise provided and ordained, an annual direct ad valorem tax of $0.26 on each One Hundred Dollars of value on all property, real, personal, and mixed, and franchises described in Section 1 of this ordinance and assessed upon 100 percent of the cash market value of property subject thereto, said taxes to be appropriated for the purpose of creating a sinking fund to pay the interest and principal maturities on all outstanding City of Corpus Christi bonds not otherwise provided for, and including the interest, agent fees, and maturities of the following City of Corpus Christi bonds: ArMo 15680 N • • CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND INTEREST MATURING AUGUST 1, 1980 - JULY 31, 1981 Interest and Paying Agent Principal Fees Total 1950 Water Dist. #2 (Flour Bluff) $ 39,000 $ 723 $ 39,723 1954 Storm Sewer 90,000 9,463 99,463 1954 Street Right -of -Way 15,000 2,221 17,221 1957 Storm Sewer 35,000 2,667 37,667 1958 Airport 40,000 3,950 43,950 1958 Storm Sewer 30,000 3,288 33,288 1961 General Improvement 200,000 7,719 207,719 1962 General Improvement 300,000 18,947 318,947 1963 General Improvement 160,000 12,495 172,495 1963A General Improvement 275,000 31,263 306,263 1964 General Improvement 1964 Park Improvement 1965 General Improvement 1966A General Improvement 1967 General Improvement 255,000 38,000 293,000 20,000 2,980 22,980 90,000 13,850 103,850 135,000 34,362 169,362 185,000 59,522 244,522 1968 General Improvement 150,000 54,797 204,797 1969 General Improvement 200,000 106,696 306,696 1969A General Improvement 150,000 33,142 183,142 1970 General Improvement 500,000 194,685 694,685 1971 General Improvement 150,000 94,044 244,044 1972 General Improvement 1973 Upper Level College 1973 General Improvement 1974A Certificates of Obligation 1974 General Improvement 1975 General Improvement 1975 Certificates of Obligation 1976 General Improvement 1977 General Improvement 1977A General Improvement 1978 General Improvement 1978A General Improvement 1979 General Improvement 1979 Certificates of Obligation 275,000 156,838 431,838 100,000 39,380 139,380 300,000 221,542 521,542 50,000 30,234 80,234 200,000 171,645 371,645 300,000 316,046 616,046 200,000 51,360 251,360 100,000 153,978 253,978 150,000 122,192 272,192 300,000 361,682 661,682 350,000 528,182 878,182 175,000 260,801 435,801 200,000 494,638 694,638 200,000 402,183 602,183 $ 5,919,000 $ 4,035,515 $ 9,954,515 • SECTION 3. That all taxes for the year 1980 hereby levied shall become due and payable at the office of the Tax Assessor -Collector of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, on or after the first day of August, 1980, and if the faxes levied for said year are not paid on or before January 31 next after becoming due, said taxes shall be deemed delinquent and interest shall be charged upon the gross amount of the taxes due and penalty due until paid at the rate of one-half of one percent for each month or fraction thereof thereafter. All taxpayers shall be allowed discounts for the payment of taxes due in accordance with the terms of Article 7255b, V.A.C,S., Texas, as follows: (a) Three (3) percent discount if such taxes are paid ninety days before the date when they would other- wise become delinquent; (b) Two (2) percent discount if such taxes are paid sixty days before the date when they would other- wise become delinquent; (c) One (1) percent discount if such taxes are paid thirty days before the date when they would other- wise become delinquent. Thus, the three percent discount shall be allowed if payment of taxes due is made on or before November 3, 1980; the two percent discount, if payment is madd on or before December 3, 1980; and the one percent discount, if payment is made on or before January 2, 1981. SECTION 4. That in addition to all other taxes, there is hereby levied a tax in the nature of a street rental fee, as provided by Article 1175, Sec. 12, V.A.C.S., Texas, against all persons, firms or corporations having any pipes, mains, conductors or other facilities in any public ways, streets, alleys, utility easements, or water within the City limits of the City of Corpus Christi as part of a public utility system. Said charge shall be based on the gross receipt of such public utility derived from the sale of gas, electricity, water, cable television, or other utility service within the City limits. Said fee or tax is payable for each and every calendar year, and shall be paid on or before March 1 next following the end of such calendar year. Such payments shall be made to the Tax Assessor -Collector of the City of Corpus Christi with a verified statement showing the amount of such gross receipts for the respective year. A reasonable charge for street rental fee aforesaid is hereby determined to be four (4) percent of the gross receipts of such utility derived from the sale of gas, electric energy, or water, cable television and/or • • other utility service, including directory advertising, within the City of Corpus Christi and is hereby levied in that amount. In the event this street rental fee and/or occupation tax is by State Law prohibited, except as to a different rate than as is hereby levied, then the rate is hereby fixed at the highest rate permitted by State Law to be levied by the City. Any public utility having a franchise from the City or for any reason permitted to operate within the City shall be liable for the payment of the tax hereby levied unless a different rate of payment or other consideration is provided by written agreement with the City. SECTION 5. 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 6. The necessity to prescribe the taxes to be levied, assessed and collected by the City of Corpus Christi, Texas 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 that such emergency and necessity exist, having requested the sus- pension of the 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 thelp'' day cfAugust, 1980. ATTEST: C y Secretary MAYO APPROVED: 6th DAY OF AUGUST, 1980: J. BR CITY ATTORNEY Aseis pity Attor.S Or THE TY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS t Corpus Christi, Texas W day of 01.11Lua, , 19Sb 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, MAYOR THE CITY 0 CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky vote: The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky 15680 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT TATE OF TEXAS, L. County of Nueces. J Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ..... LORRAINE CORTEZ — _ , 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 OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 15680 meeting held on 6th day of August, 1980 at 2pm. of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in THE CORPUS CHRISTICa1LLER-Z+IMES da 11th U on the day of_ AIIG...—_ST 80 � .... 19_— and,once each__ _ y —_.._thereafter for one 29.26 Subscribed and sworn to before me this.l2th _day of___ AUGUST 19 80 LORRAINE CORTEZ c 20hrzc (2 ACCOUNTING CLQ' lois wine ---� Notary Public, County, Texas