HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 443EMERGENCY ORDINANCE N0. 443 NEW SERIES ~ ....
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AN E~RERGENCY ORDINANCE ELATING T-0'~'THE.
TEMPORARY EMISSION OF PENALTIES, ...COSTS"
AND INTEREST ON DELINQUENT TAXES,
PAYMENT OF DELINQUENT TA~ES 'OF'ONE YE~'~.~
OR MORE, DECLARING THE EMERGENCY OF THIS
ORDINANCE AND PROVIDING THAT IT SHALL
TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY.
WHEREAS, the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants
of the City of Bakersfield require the passage of an emergency ord-
inance providing for the temporary remission of delinquent tax pen-
alties, costs and interest, during the period ending April 20, 1935,
NOW THEEFORE BE IT 0RDAINED 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 im-
provement assessments charged on the respective delinquent tax rolls
affected.
In all cases where real estate has been sold to the City of
Bakersfield on or before June 30, 1934, 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,
1935, 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, together with all taxes that are a lien against the prop-
erty, 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 of the property as
assessed in the year nearest the time of such redemption, with
interest on the whole amount oft-such taxes at the rate of seven per
cent per annum computed from the first day of July, 1934, 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, 1935, 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
a~..'nst said real estate on or before April 20, 1935. The provisions
Of this section shall have no application to the mount or rate of
penalties for delinquency or upon redemption, for taxes of the fiscal
year 1934-35.
SECTION 2.
In all cases where real estate has been sold to the City
on or before June 30, 1934, for delinquent taxes and the City has
not disposed of the same and no deed had been made to the City for
the same, the person whose estate has been sold, his executors,
administrators or other successors in interest shall, on or before
April 20, 1935, have the right to elect to pay such delinquent 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 yea~ paid at the rate of seven per cent
(7%) per annum from July 1, 1934, to date of such payment.
SECTION 3.
All interest received by the city treasurer pursuant to
the provisions of this ordinance shall be distributed in the manner
provided by Section lOB of Ordinance No. 30. New Series, of the City
of Bakersfield.
SECTION 4.
If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase
of this ordinance 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 oP phrases be declared unconstitu-
tional.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency ord-
inance within the meaning of Section 24 of the Charter of the City
of Bakersfield, State of California, and necessary fop the immedi-
ate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety and
shall 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
delinquency. By permitting partial redemption and with minimized
penalties many taxpayers will be enabled to redeem their property,
Pestore the same to the tax rolls and thereby add revenue for the
operation and maintenance of the local government.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Emergency Ordinance
was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield, at
a regular meeting thereof held on the 15th day of 0ctobeP, 1934,
by the following vote
t~YOEESs,, B~BS'EMON, I, klZTR, BOLLEll, WALTEBB, WILsO M
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Clt C'Terk of 'the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APPROVED by me s 15 h day of October, 1934.
t akePsfteld.