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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 3511 2 3 4 .13 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 'ORDINANCEI NO. iLl AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 14, 16 and 19 OF ORDINANCE NO. 154 OF SAID CITY OF AZUSA ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA PROVIDING A SYSTEM FOR THE ASSESSMENT, LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES PASSED THE 24th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914" AND ALSO AMENDING SECTION 15 OF SAID ORDINANCE #154 AS AMENDED BY SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE '#159 OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID CITY OF AZUSA AMENDING SECTIONS 15, 28, 29, 30, 33 and 46 OF ORDINANCE #154 OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA PROVIDING A SYSTE14 FOR THE ASSESSMENT, LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES PASSED THE 24th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1914." The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That Section 14 of Ordinance #154 of the said City of Azusa entitled "An Ordinance of the City of Azusa providing a system for the assessment, levy and collection of taxes" is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 14. The assessor shall when required by the City Council of the City of Azusa, transmit to said City Council on or before the let day of July of each year, a verified report, separate from the assess- ment roll, containing a complete list of all persons who refuse or neglect to furnish a statement of their property, as in this Ordinance provided, or to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance, the amount of the assess- ment upon the property of- such persons, with a s$ate- ment of the particular facts if any upon which the assessment has been made, and the valuation of the property so assessed. SECTION 't. Section 15 of Ordinance #154 entitled "An Ordinance of the City of Azusa providing a system for the assess- ment, levy and collection of taxes; as amended by Section 1 of Ordinance #159 entitled"an Ordinance of the Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa amending Sections 15, 282 29, 30, 33 and 46 of Ordinance #154 of the Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa entitled an Ordinance of the City of Azusa providing a system for the assessment, levy and collection of taxes passed the 24th day of February, 1914," is hereby amended to read as follows: 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION 15. Trt shall be the duty of the assessor etween the first Monday in March and the first day of July in each year to make out a true list of all taxable property within the city. The mode of making out said list and proceedings relat- ing thereto shall be in conformity with the laws now in force regulating County Assessors, except as the same may be otherwise provided by ordinance, said list shall describe the property assessed and the value thereof and shall contain all other matters required to be stated in such lists by the county assessor. Said assessor shall verify said list by his oath and shall deposit the same with the City Clerk on or before the first day of July of each year. Said assessor and his deputies shall have power to administer all oaths and affirmations necessary in the performance. of his duty. Immediately after said list shall have been filed in the office of the said City Clerk, said Clerk shall forthwith give notice thereof and of the time and place wheresaid City Council shall meet as a Board of Equalization to equalize assessments, by publication in some news- paper published and circulated in said city, if there be one, and if there is no newspaper published and circulated in said city, by causing notices thereof to be posted in at least four public places in said city and in the meantime the assessment last or book must remain open for inspection by all persons interested. If notice of the meeting of said Board of Equalization is published in a newspaper, said notice shall appear in at least two publications thereof immediately prior to July 1st of each year. If said notices are posted, said posting shall be at least for a period of ten days immediately prior to July let of each year. SECTIO. Section 16 of Ordinance #154 of the said City of Azusa entitled An Ordinance of the City of Azusa providing a system for the assessment, levy and collection of taxesO is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 16. The City Council of the City of Azusa shall meet at its usual place of holding meetings and shall Sit as a Board of Equalization at the time of the first regular meeting of said City Council in July and shall continue in session from day to day until all the re- turns of the assessor have been rectified, but not later than the second Monday in July. They shall have the power to hear complaints and to correct, modify or strike out any assessment made by the assessor and may, of its own motion, raise any assessment, upon notice to the party whose assessment is to be raised. The corrected list for each tax shall be the assessment roll for said tax for said year. It shall be certified by the City Clerk of the City who shall act as Clerk of the Board of Equalization, as being the assessment roll for said, tax and shall be the assessment roll upon which said tax is to be levied in said year. The proceedings of the Board of Equalization shall be governed by the provision of Article 1 of Chapter 4 of Title 9 of Part 3 of the Political Code of the State of California in so far as said provisions are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance. 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 � � 4 SECTION .4. Section 19 of Ordinance #154 of the said City of Azusaa enticed "An Ordinance of the City of Azusa providing a system for the Assessment, Levy and Collection of Taxes" is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 19. On the first Monday in September of each year, the City Council shall levy the tax to provide for raising the necessary revenue of the City for the current fiscal year and shall by a Resolution fix the rate of taxes, designate the number of cents upon each $100.00 using as a basis the value of property as it appears on the assessment roll for that year which rate of taxation shall be sufficient to raise sufficient revenue estimated to be required to carry on the various departments of the city for the current year, not to exceed 01.00 on each $100.00 of assessed valuation and to pay the bonded or other indebtedness of the city. Having determined the whole rate to be levied, the Board shall then levy the tax to provide for raising the necessary revenue for the city for the then fiscal year which said fiscal year shall begin with the first day of July of each year and shall end with the 30th day of June of the year next following. SECTION 5. The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest same and certify to the passage, adoption and publication of the same and shall cause the same to be published once, within fifteen days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of Azusa, which said newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose, and thereupon and thereafter thirty days after its passage this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force. Attest: Mae A. Hynes, y Clert of the City o Azusa. Approved, passed and adopted this 1 o= day of May, 1940. 3. .ayor oof—We--- City of Azusa. STATE OF CALIFORNIA SS. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES W s. I, MAE A. HYNES, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the fore- going Ordinance was duly introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa, held on the 6th day of May, 1940 in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council in said City; that said Ordinance was placed upon its first reading at said regular meeting May 6, 1940; that thereafter said Ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Council, signed and approved by the Mayor and attested by said City Clerk of said City at a regular meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council. Chambers at the next regular meeting of said City Council on the 20th day of May, 1940, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: AYES: Councilmen: Jumper, Malone, Bradshaw, Arnold, Ov,,ens, NOES: None ABSENT: None I DO FURTHER CERTIFY that I caused said Ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen..d.ays from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic on May 24, 1940 a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa, and that the some was published in accordance with law. Mae A. Hynes, City Clerk of the City of Azusa. e F '