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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 419 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO.A%/~ NEW SERIES AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE TEMPORARY REMISSION OF PENALTIES, COSTS AND INTEREST ON DELINQUENT TAXES, THE PAYMENT OF DELINQUENT TAXES OF ONE YEAH OH MORE, DECLARING THE EMERGENCY OF THIS ORDINANCE AND P]~OVIDING"THAT IT SHALL TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY. WHEREAS, the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Bakers field require the passage of an emergency ordin- ance providing for the temporary remission of delinquent tax. pen- alties, costs and interest, during the period ending April 20, 1934, NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield, as follows: SECTION 1. The word "taxes" wherever used in this ordinance shall be deemed to include all taxes and annual installments of public improve- ment assessments charged on the respective delinquent tax rolls affect- ed. In all cases where real estate has been sold to the City of Bakers field on or before August 30, 1933, for delinquent taxes, and the City has not disposed of the same, the person whose estate has been sold, his heirs, executors, administrators or other successors in interest shall, at any time on or before the twentieth day of April, 1934, have the right to redeem such property by paying to the city treasurer of the City of Bakersfield the amount of taxes due thereon at the time of such sale, and also all taxes that were a lien upon said real property at the time said taxes became delinquent, and also all unpaid taxes of every description assessed against the property t6gether with all taxes that are a lien against the property, for each year since the sale, as shown on the delinquent assessment rolls in the then permanent custody of the city auditor, or, if not so assessed, then upon the value o~ the property as assessed in the year nearest the time of such redemption, with interest on the whol-e mount of such taxes at the rate of seven per cent per annum computed from the first day of July, 1932, to the time of such redemption, except that interest upon taxes, assessed or unassessed, for the fiscal year 1932-1933, shall be computed from July 1, 1933, to the time of such redemption. The provisions.of this section shall be deemed to allow the redemption of such real estate, on or before the twentieth day of April, 1934, free from the payment of any costs, interest (other than the interest hereinbefore in this section provided), penalties for delinquency, or redemption penalties, which may have accrued against said real estate on or before April 20,'1934. The provisions of this section shall have no application to the amount or rate of penalties for delinquency or upon redemption, for taxes of the fis- cal year 1933-1934. SECTION 2. In all cases where real estate has been sold to the City on or before August 30, 1933, for delinquent taxes and the City has not disposed of the same, the person whose estate has been sold, his ~xecutors, administrators or other successors in interest shall, on or before April 20, 1934, have the right to elect to pay such del- inquent taxes for the first year, or such delinquent taxes for the first year and any number of additional consecutive years, plus interest on the delinquent taxes for each year paid at the rate of seven percent (7%) per annum from July 1, 1932, to date of such payment (except that interest upon taxes for the fiscal year 1932-33 shall be computed from July 1, 1933. SECTION All interest received by the city treasurer pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance shall be distributed in the manner pro- vided by Section 108 of Ordinance No. 30 New Series of the City of Bakersf ield. SECTION 4. If any section, sub-section,~clause or phrase of this ordin- -2- ance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each section, sub-section, .sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared tuneon stitutional. SECTION 5. This ordinance is hereby declared to be ane emergency ordinance within the meaning of Section 24 of the Charter of the City of Bakersfield, State of California, and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety and ahall take effect immediately. The facts constituting such emergency are as follows: Due to the widespread depression, many taxpayers have been unable to pay their taxes or to redeem their property from sale to the city for deiinquency. By permitting partial redemption and with mini- mized penalties many taxpayers will be enabled to redeem their prop- erty, restore the same to the tax rolls and.thereby add revenue for the operation and maintenance of the local government. ..... o0o ..... I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Emergency Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield, at tda ~ 193~, a regular meeting thereof held on the J y of by the following vote: Ayes: Boden, Gist, Siemon, Smith, Sollets, V/alters, v/ilson. Noes: None Absent: None City 1 k a d 'x-Officio Clerk of the Council of the City of Bakersfield. ~O~of'the City of Bakersfield.