Ordinance No. 919ORDINANCE NO. 919
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CYPRESS, AMENDING SECTION 15 -30 OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS INCREASING
THE BUSINESS TAX RATE SCHEDULE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 15 -30, "Tax Rate Schedule," of the Code of the City
of Cypress is hereby amended to read as follows:
"05 For the business of general and business
services, including but not limited to:
Gardeners, maintenance, laundry /dry cleaning,
secretarial, and printing, the annual tax shall be
based on gross receipts as follows:
$0.33/$1000.
Except in those cases where a service is
not operated from a fixed location, the annual
tax shall be forty dollars ($40.00) per vehicle
used for providing said service.
07 For the business of contractors requiring
a license by the state, the annual tax shall be
based on gross receipts as follows: forty dollars
($40.00) plus $0.26/$1000.
This section shall be applicable to
owner /builders in the event they are building for
sale or for rent.
09 For the business of commercial /industrial
rental, the annual tax shall be based on gross
receipts as follows: $0.40/$1000, or twenty -
five dollars ($25.00), whichever is greater.
16 For the business of special sales,
including but not limited to: arts, crafts and
other special sales, the annual tax shall be based
on gross receipts as follows: $0.26/$1000,
except the tax for an auctioneer shall be twenty -
five dollars ($25.00) per day; the annual tax for
solicitors shall be forty dollars ($40.00); and the
tax for swap meets shall be that the owner of
the swap meet shall pay ten dollars ($10.00) per
day of the meet and $0.50 per vendor."
Section 2. 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, subdivision, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions
thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 3. In accordance with Government Code Section 36937(d), this
Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
Section 4. 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 13 th day of June 1994, and finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular
meeting held on the 27th day of June 1994.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK 0 THE CFFY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF CYPRESS
) 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 27th day of June
1994; by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 3 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Age, Nicholson and Partin
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Bowman
ABSTAINED: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kerry
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CITY CLE O TH CITY OF CYPRESS
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