Ordinance No. 626ORDINANCE NO. 626
AN 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. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption
in accordance with the provisions of Section 419(b) of the Charter of the
City of Cypress; provided, however, that no person shall be required to
pay or collect the increase in the admissions tax effected by this ordinance
until the 1st day of December 1978.
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 unconstitutional.
FIRST READ at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Cypress held on the 23rd day of June 1978, and finally adopted and
ordered posted at an adjourned regular meeting of said Council held on the
29th day of June 1978.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF C TY /OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
MAYOR OF tRE /CITY OF CYPRESS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at an adjourned regular meeting
of the said City Council held on the 29th 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
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS