Ordinance No. 890153
ORDINANCE NO. 890
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CYPRESS AMENDING SECTION 15 -13
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS BY
REPEALING SECTION 15- 13(b)(4),
(PRORATION OF BUSINESS TAX PAYMENT), AND
AMENDING SECTION 15 -30 INCREASING THE
BUSINESS TAX RATE SCHEDULE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 15 -13 (b)(4), of the Code
of the City of cypress is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2. Section 15 -30, Tax Rate Schedule,"
of the Code of the City of Cypress is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"15 -30. Tax Rate Schedule.
The business tax shall be forty dollars
($40.00), unless otherwise specified, or
the amount computed in accordance with the
following business tax rate schedule,
whichever is the greater:
08 For the business of subcontracting, the
annual tax shall be: A flat rate of fifty
dollars ($50.00).
10 For the business of residential rental,
the annual tax shall be based on gross
receipts as follows: $0.40/$1,000, or
twenty five dollars ($25.00), whichever is
greater (includes rental of mobile home
spaces).
13 For the business of vending machines,
the annual tax shall be as follows:
A. Merchandise dispensing - twenty five
dollars ($25.00) per machine.
B. Juke box and amusement devices
(including electronic games and pinball)
- twenty five dollars ($25.00) per
machine.
14 For the business of transportation, the
annual tax shall be as follows:
A. Ambulance - forty dollars ($40.00) per
vehicle.
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B. Armored Car - forty dollars ($40.00) per
vehicle.
C. Taxi- forty dollars ($40.00) per
vehicle.
D. Tow Truck - forty dollars ($40.00) per
vehicle.
E. Wholesale Delivery - forty dollars
($40.00) per vehicle.
The business tax prescribed in subsection 14 D
shall not be required where said vehicle is
operated and owned by a person already paying a
tax based on gross receipts at the same location,
and which gross receipts include receipts from the
operation of such vehicle.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection,
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this
Ordinance, is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance,
and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that
any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions,
sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. In accordance with Government Code Section
36937(d), this Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
its adoption.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to certify as to the passage of this Ordinance and
to give notice thereof by causing copies of this Ordinance
to be posted in three public places throughout the City.
FIRST READ at the regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Cypress held on the 22nd day of June 1992, and finally adopted and
ordered posted at a regular meeting held on the 13th day of July 1992.
ATTEST: 9
CITY CL OF T CITY 0 O
CYPRESS
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress,
California DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance
was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Cypress, held on the 13th day of July
1992, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS:
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSTAINED: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSENT: 0
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
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CITY CLER OF THE frITY OF CYPRESS
Age, Bowman, Kerry, Nicholson
and Partin
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