HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-545ORDINANCE NO. NS-545 AMENDING SECTION 6200.55.A
AND REPEALING SECTION 9378 OF THE SANTA ANA
MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 6101 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 6101. License Fees Imposed.
Every person who shall c~,,~Lence or carry on any
business, show, exhibition, game or activity specified
in this Article as subject to a license fee provided
for herein, shall be required to pay the same as a tax
due to the City. The license fees provided for in this
Article and required to be paid hereby are assessed
pursuant to the taxing power of the City and solely for
the purpose of producing revenue.
SECTION 2. That Section 6118 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 6118. Police Officers to Report.
Ail police officers are hereby appointed inspectors
of licenses and are required to examine all places of
business and persons in their respective beats who may
be subject to the payment of license fees, to see that
such licenses have been taken out and the tax imposed
has been paid. Ail police officers shall have the right
to enter free of charge any place of business and at any
time while the same is occupied, open to the public, or
being used by persons or employees as a place of work
to determine whether or not such place is subject to the
payment of license fees imposed by this Article and to
demand exhibition of the license tax receipt for the
current taxing period.
Such police officers shall make out, during January,
May and September of each year, a list of all persons
carrying on any business or activity without having paid
the tax therefor imposed by this Article which have co~e
to their attention during the precedt~g~ four months,
and shall deliver the same to the Director of Finance,
and shall report from time to time such failure to pay
license taxes as may come to their attention.
SECTION 3. That Section 6200.55.A. of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 6200.55.A. subdivision of Land.
The business of subdividing land, regardless of the
number of lots into which a parcel of land is divided,
shall be subject to a business tax or license fee based
upon the number of such lots created at the per lot
rate of $50.00
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SECTION 4. That Sections 6115, 6119, 6121 and 9378 of the
Santa Aha Municipal code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days
from and after the date of its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Aha at its regular meeting held on the
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
6%h day of N0v~ber , 1961.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, MARION SUTTNER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ana, California; that the foregoing
Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 16th day of 0c%ober , 1961, and was again
considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 6%h
day of No~mber , 1961, and was at said meeting regularly passed
and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
Henry H. Schluetera Dale H. Heinly,
B~ Brewer, Royal~. Hubbard
AYES, COUNCILMEN:
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: A.A. H~i
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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