Ordinance No. 621ORDINANCE NO. 621
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS AMENDING SECTION 26 -11 OF THE CODE OF SAID CITY
RELATING TO ADMISSION TAXES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a) of Section 26 -11 of the Code of the
City of Cypress hereby is amended to read as follows:
(a) A tax of thirty -five cents ($.35) shall be imposed,
levied and collected for each admission; provided, however,
that the amount of such tax shall be increased by a sum
equal to 15% of any increase in the price of an admission
effected subsequent to the effective date of this ordinance
and provided further, that when the event consists of a
recreational activity, a tax of five cents ($0.05) shall
be imposed, levied and collected for each admission of a
participant in such recreational activity.
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby declares this ordinance to
be necessary as an emergency measure for preserving the public peace,
health or safety and declares that it shall take effect immediately;
provided, however, that the increase in the admissions tax effected by
this ordinance shall not become operative until the 1st day of December
1978. The City Council hereby finds and determines as follows:
(a) The approval by the voters of Proposition 13, adding
Article XIIIA to the California Constitution, will substan-
tially reduce the revenues available to the City to enable
the City to provide essential governmental services to its
residents and taxpayers.
(b) The approval of said measure by the voters may eliminate
the authority of the City Council to impose new taxes to replace
the revenues no longer available to the City from and after
July 1.
(c) In order to insure that this ordinance is effective prior
to the effective date of the aforesaid Article XIIIA, it is
necessary that this ordinance take effect immediately upon
adoption.
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, sub-
divisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application
thereof to any person or place be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
INTRODUCED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED POSTED at an adjourned regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Cypress held on the 23rd day of June 1978.
ATTEST:
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I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Urgency Ordinance was duly adopted at an adjourned
regular meeting of the said City Council held on the 23rd day of June 1978;
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Evans, Lacayo, MacLain, Rowan and Hudson
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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