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Home My WebLink About15681 ORD - 08/06/1980• jkh:8-6-80;lst r AN ORDINANCE FINDING THAT THE GRANTING OF AN 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, AS AMENDED; PRO- VIDING FOR EXEMPTION FROM ALL AD VALOREM TAXES LEVIED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000) OF THE ASSESSED TAXABLE VALUE OF SAID RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD BY THOSE PERSONS QUALIFIED FOR THE PAYMENT OF DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS AS DEFINED UNDER FEDERAL OLD -AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE OR ITS SUCCESSOR, PROVIDED PROPER APPLICATION FOR SAID EXEMP- TION IS MADE WITH THE TAX ASSESSOR -COLLECTOR OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, Article 8, Section 1-b, Texas Constitution, has been amended by vote of the citizens of the State 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, 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 from time to time increased the amount of exemption, and particularly by Ordinance No. 15037, passed and approved on August 1, 1979, exempted from ad valorem taxes levied after January 1, 1979, Eighteen Thousand Dollars ($18,000) of the assessed taxable value of residential home- steads, as that term is defined by the State Constitution and law, ofpersons 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 WHEREAS. the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi finds hereby that providing an exemption of $18,000 of the assessed taxable value of residential homesteads is advantageous to those taxpaying citizens who are sixty-five years of age or older, and that providing an exemption of $10,000 of the assessed taxable value of residential homesteads is advantageous to those taxpaying citizens who are qualified for the payment of disability 15681 �`al • • insurance benefits as defined under Federal Old -Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance or its successors, and said exemptions will not unduly burden the other taxpaying citizens, the City's financial condition, impair the retire- ment of City bonds or impair the obligations of the contract by which any debt was created: N0W, 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, 1980, 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 there is hereby exempted from all ad valorem taxes levied on or after January 1, 1980, Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) of the assessed taxable value of residence homesteads, as that term is defined by the State Constitution and law, by those persons qualified for the payment of disability insurance benefits as defined under Federal Old -Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance or its successors, 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 "B", and made a part hereof for all pertinent purposes. Provided, however, that an eligible disabled person who is sixty- five (65) years of age or Alder may not receive both exemptions in the same year but may choose either if both methods are adopted by the taxing agency. SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall be effective from and after January 1, 1980. 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, -2- • 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. SECT,JON 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 ad valorem taxation certain sums and for those persons qualified for the pay- ment of disability insurance benefits, as hereinabove provided, to have exempted from ad valorem taxation certain sums 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 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 and publication, IT IS ACCORDINGLY 50 ORDAINED this the day of August, 1980. ATTEST: 1 Secretary APPRO ED: DAY OF AUGUST, 1980: J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY By i vc' uv Assi , a Q ity Attor MAYO THE C TY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS i APPLICATION FOR $18,000 ASSESSMENT EXEMPTION FOR PERSONS 65 YEARS OLD OR OLDER Date 1. 'Description of Property: 2. Ownership of Described Property: 3. Name and ages of persons residing at Property: 4. Is Property Described Homestead as that term is defined under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas: Yes No 5. By signing this form I hereby affirm that the foregoing statements are true and correct and I am the head of the family residing in the aforesaid homestead. Signature Acknowledgment: Clerk, Tax Office • APPLICATION FOR $10,000 ASSESSMENT EXEMPTION FOR PERSONS QUALIFIED FOR THE PAY- MENT OF DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS AS DEFINED UNDER FEDERAL OLD -AGE, SUR- VIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE OR ITS SUCCESSORS 1. Description of Property: Date 2. Ownership of Described Property: ' 3. Name and ages of persons residing at Property: 4. Is Property Described Homestead as that term is defined under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas: Yes No 5. By signing this form I hereby affirm that the foregoing statements are true and correct and I am the head of the family residing in the aforesaid homestead. Acknowledgment: Clerk, Tax Office Signature Corpus Christi, Texas ((TO" day of , 19 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 OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky amp (bp 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 15681 STATE OF TERAS, ti. County of Nueces. }SS: PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came..._..._._.....—...._. LORRAINE CORTEX: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 PASAAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 15681 RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD WHO ARE 65 YRS., OF AGE. . . of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER -TIMES llth AUGUST 80 DAY ONE on the._._ day of ___ __....__...._...... 19_ _, and once each. thereafter for.. consecutive.. DAY 4, ..._ONE _Times. LORRAINE CORTEZ 22abra etfiAT A-CCOUNTTNe• -aura( Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th _dd��aaayy/ of__ AUGUST 19 80 G�{'Notery Public, 6414:46.2. County, Texas LOIS MINN NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE N5681 FiNOIN� I THAT 'H� �M• F RANTING OF AN EX MPTION FRO ALOREMTAXES FOR PERSONS' RESIDENCE OMES.IEAO WHO ARE YEARS OF AGE OR OLD- ER 15 IN THE BEST IN- TEREST OF THE CITI- ZENS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; EX- EMPTING FROM ALL. AD VALOREM TAXES'LEV- IED EIGHTEEN THOU- SAND DOLLARS (518,000) OF THE ASSESSED TAX• ABLE VALUE OF SAID RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD OF SAID PERSONS UPON PROPER APPLICATION FOR SAID EXEMPTION BEING MADE AS PRO VIDEO BY ORDINANCE NO. 11207, AS AMENDED; PROVIDING FOR EX- EMPTION FROM ALL AD VALOREM TAXES LEV- IED TEN THOUSAND DOL- LARS (510,000) OF THE AS- SESSEDTAXABLE VALUE OF SAID RESIDENCE HOMESTEAD BY THOSE PERSONS QUALIFIED FOR THE PAYMENT OF DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS AS DEFINED UNDER FEDERAL OLD- AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE OR ITS SUCCESSOR, PRO- VIDEO PROPER APPLI- CATION FOR SAID EX- EMPTION IS MADE WITH THE ASSESSOR-COLLEC- TOR OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; PRO- VIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVID- ING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WAS PASSED AND AP. PROVED by the Clty Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, during the Regular Council Meeting held on the 6th day of August, 1980 at 1:00 p.m. and providing pub- IlcatIon one time In the offi- cial publication of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas. ISSUED UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, this the 7th day M August, 1980. •s-BIII G. Read, City Secretary City of Corpus Chr,stl, Texas O