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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2-Kti AN ORDINANCE } 33 tea: RELEASING PENALTIES AND CERTAIN COSTS THAT HAVE ACCRUED UPON AD VALOREM TAXES DUE THE CITY OF BELUL-ONT, AND THAT HAVE BECOLIE DELINQUENT ON OR BEFORE LUARCR 1st, 1933, PROVIDED THAT SAID TAXES ARE PAID ON OR BEFORE THE 30th DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1933; PROVIDING- FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SAID PROVISIONS,, _SUSPENDING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREKTH FOR THE TEMI OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY C0MMISbION OF THE CITY OF BEAU WNT, TEXAS Section 1 That all penalties and costs that have accrued on ad valorem taxes which have become delinquent on or before March lst, 1933, due the City of Beaumont, except as hereinafter provided, shall be, and the same are hereby released, providing said ad valorem taxes are paid on or before the 30th day of June, A. D. 1933. Section 2 The provisions of Section 1 hereof shall not apply to delinquent taxes and penalties and costs already paid, nor to de- linquent taxes and penalties and costs that have been reduced to judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction, nor shall the same be construed to release the payment of interext upon delinquent taxes due the City of Beaumont. Section 3 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here- with are hereby expressly suspended during the terra of this ordi- nance insofar only as they may affect this ordinance, and it being the express intention of the City Commission to in no mise repeal the ordinance passed Z""larch- 29th, 1921, fixing a ten per cerit penalty on delinquent taxes, but to only suspend the operation of said ordinance during the term and upon the conditions provided for in this ordinance. Section 4 The fact that there is a large amount of delinquent taxes due and unpaid to the City of Beaumont, which seriously embarasses the City government and cripples its efficiency of oper- ation, and affects the health, peace and protection of its citiz':ens, and the fact that the present economic depression involves the ability of many taxpayers to pay their delinquent taxes, penalties and costs, and the further fact that the release of the ten. per. cent penalties and costs for the period above mentioned -Will -aid the City in the collection of taxes greatly_ needed, creates an imperative public emergency necessitating the sW3p_ension of the rule requiring the reading of ordinances on three separate days before passage thereof, and said rule is hereby suspended, and this ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage Passed by the affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission, this the 28th day of Yiarch, A.D. 1933 Pia r, City of Beaumont, Texas.