Ordinance No. 713-X 0 09
ORDINANCE NO. 713
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
AMENDING SECTION 15- 30(16) OF THE CYPRESS CITY CODE
RELATING TO THE BUSINESS TAX RATE SCHEDULE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 15- 30(16) of the Cypress City Code is hereby amended in
full to read as follows:
SECTION 15 -30 Tax Rate Schedule
16 - For the business of Special Sales, including but not limited
to: swap meets, arts, crafts, and other special sales, the annual tax
shall be based on gross receipts as follows:
$.26/$1,000.00
Except the tax for an auctioneer shall be $25.00 per day.
Except the annual tax for solicitors shall be $25.00.
Except the tax for swap meets, at the option of the swap
meet operator, shall be $.26/$1,000.00 per vendor, or a daily fee per
entire operation equal to $20.00 per operating day but not to be less than
an annual minimum fee of $1,000.00.
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby declares that it does not intend by
the Ordinance to either impose a new tax or to increase the rates of business
tax established by Ordinance No. 628. Instead, it is the intention of the City
Council to provide certain taxpayers with the option of paying a flat rate tax
rather than a tax based on gross receipts.
SECTION 3. 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, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the
application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitu-
tional.
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 within the City.
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FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on
the 12th day of September1983, and finally adopted and ordered posted at a
regular meeting of said Council hold on the 26th day of September 1983.
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK OF THE C ITY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
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 26th day of September 1983; by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado, Kanel, Mullen, Partin, and Lacayo
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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CITY CLERK OF THE C OF CYPRESS