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ORDINANCE NO. 2377
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF AZUSA AMENDING SECTIONS 3 . 40 . 010 AND
3 . 40 . 030 OF THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE
ESTABLISHING ADMISSIONS TAXES FOR CERTAIN
EVENTS AND PROVIDING FOR AN ELECTION THEREON
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1 . Section 3 . 40 .010 of the Azusa Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"3 . 40 . 010 ADMISSION TAX; LEVY AND ASSESSMENT.
There is hereby levied and assessed and shall be
collected and paid, a tax:
(a) In the sum of two dollars and fifty cents
( $2 . 50) upon each admission of a vendor at a
swap meet held or conducted within the City;
and
(b) In the sum of ten percent ( 10% ) of the
admissions price of any event for which a fee
is charged for admission, including, but not
limited to, participation activities,
exhibition, fair, meeting, performance, sports
event, race, dance, demonstration or
attraction; and
(c) In the sum of twenty cents ( $ . 20 ) on each paid
admission to a swap meet; and
(d) In the sum of ten percent ( 10%) of the
admission price paid for the right or
privilege of parking a motor vehicle for which
right or privilege a separate or addition
admissions price is imposed. "
SECTION 2 . Section 3 . 40. 030 of the Azusa Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows :
"3 . 40 . 030 EXCEPTIONS TO TAX REQUIREMENT. The tax
imposed by this Chapter shall not apply to the
following admissions :
(a) Bona fide employee of management;
(b) Municipal, law enforcement, or fire officers
on official business;
(c) Members of the press in the performance of
their duties;
(d) Persons attending the event or parking for the
event of a bona fide religious organization;
and
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(e) Persons attending motion picture performances;
and
( f) Other persons whose admission to the place is
required for the performance of some duty to
or work for , the event or the facility. "
SECTION 3 . The City Council may amend this Chapter
3. 40 of the Azusa Municipal Code without a vote of the
people to the extent necessary to implement the procedures
for collection of the tax, exempt certain events from the
application of the tax, adjust the rate of the tax but not
to exceed the amounts set forth in Section 1, and as
permitted by Government Code Sections 53720, et seq.
SECTION 4 . This ordinance, being for the enactment
and imposition of a general tax, shall be submitted to a
vote of the people at the general election scheduled for
November 8, 1988. This ordinance shall become valid and
binding if a majority of the voters voting thereon vote in
its favor at said election and shall be effective on the
date that the City Council certifies the results of said
election. If the provisions of Government Code Sections
53720, et seq. , are duly repealed or amended, or interpreted
by the courts so that a vote of the people is not required
for enactment of Sections 3 . 40 . 010 and 3 . 40. 030 , then this
Ordinance shall take effect as provided for all other City
ordinances and may be amended in the same manner as all
other City ordinances.
Pursuant to Government Code Section 36934, the City
Council of the City of Azusa hereby declares this ordinance
to be an urgency ordinance requiring the immediate enactment
thereof because the same is necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general
welfare of the City and its citizens and, accordingly, the
provisions of this ordinance shall become effective at once
as an urgency ordinance. The facts constituting are that
there is insufficient time to adopt this ordinance by the
normal means and meet the deadline imposed by the County of
Los Angeles for placing the measure on the November ballot
as required by Government Code Sections 53720 , et seq. The
issues addressed in this ordinance have been extensively
debated by the Council over three Council meetings and two
months .
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify the
adoption of this ordinance and shall cause it to be
published in the manner required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 15th day of August
1988.
MAYOR
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF AZUSA )
I , ADOLPH SOLIS, City Clerk of the City of Azusa,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2377
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading
at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 10th day of
August , 1988. That thereafter , said Ordinance was
duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 15th day of August , 1988, by the
following vote, to wit :
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: AVILA, STEMRICH, NARANJO, LATTA, MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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