Ordinance No. 634ORDINANCE NO. 634
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
AMENDING SECTION 26 -57 OF THE CYPRESS CITY CODE RELATING
TO ELECTRICAL ENERGY USER TAX.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 26 -57 of the Cypress City Code hereby is amended
to read as follows:
Section 26 -57. Collection - Commencement. The duty to collect
the tax from a service user shall commence with the beginning of
the first regular billing period applicable to said service user
which shall begin as of a date to be fixed by resolution of the
City Council, or at the beginning of the first regular billing
period thereafter; provided, however, that the City Council shall
conduct a public hearing concerning the tax prior to adopting such
resolution. Where a person receives more than one billing, one or
more being for different periods than another, the duty to collect
shall arise and commence separately for each billing period.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any
person or place, 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 or
its application to other persons or places. 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, sub-
divisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application
thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held
on the 25th day of September 1978 and finally adopted and ordered posted
at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 10th day of October 1978.
ATTEST:
CITY CLEF OF NTH CITY Oly CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
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MAYOR • THE CITY OF CYPRESS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the
said City Council held on the 10th day of October 1978; by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Evans, MacLain, Rowan and Hudson
NOES: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Lacayo
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
CITY`CLE1 ? D THE CITYr CYPRESS