HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 1759 ORDINANCE NO. 1759 NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 6.50. 050 (RATE
OF ADDITIONAL TAX) OF CHAPTER 6.50 (BUSINESS
PROMOTION DISTRICT) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF
T[]~ CITY OF BAKERSFIELD.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Section 6.50.050 (Rate of Additional Tax) of the
Municipal Code of the City of Bakersfield be amended to read as
follows:
6.50.050 Rate of additional tax. There is hereby imposed the
following tax for a business license for all businesses conducting
their activities in a Business Promotion District, which is in
addition to the regular tax imposed upon various businesses generally
not in such Business Promotion District.
(a) All businesses in such district shall be subject to
this additional taxation if they are subject to taxation by the
City of Bakersfield under the business license tax'ordinance,
Chapter 6.20.
(b) The tax imposed by this chapter as additional tax
for .a business license shall be based upon the following schedule:
1. Class I Businesses:
Retail sales where 75% of the gross receipts are derived
from such sales.
Secondhand dealers.
Businesses in this class shall be taxed as an additional tax
for a business license three (3) times their ordinary business
license not to exceed $3,000.00.
2. Class II Businesses:
Advertising agencies
Apartments, motels or rooming houses
Auto and appliance repair
Auto Dealer, Retail (new and used)
Barber shops and barber colleges
Beauty shops and beauty colleges
Billiard and pool tables
Cafes or restaurants
Cardrooms
Collection agencies
Dancing schools
Dry cleaning plants and agencies
Employment agencies
Hote'ls
Interior decorators
Loans and mortgage firms
Parking lots and garages
Photographers
Stock and bond brokers, real estate and personal
loan agents and savings and loan associations
Theatres
Travel agencies
Businesses in this class shall be taxed as an additional tax
for a business license two (2) times the ordinary business license
tax.
3. Class III Businesses:
This class shall include all businesses not listed as
Classes I or II above.
Businesses in Class III shall be taxed as an additional tax
for a business license one-half (1/2) times the ~rdinary business
license.
2.
(c) New businesses in such district shall be exempt
from any assessment under this chapter for three months after
opening doors for business, and will then be assessed in accordance
with their classification, with the annual amount due to be paid
on a pro rata basis depending upon the portion of the year during
which assessments are due and payable.
(d) Any business, person or institution located within
the Business Promotion District which is exempt from the payment
of a business license tax by the State Constitution is not taxed
under this chapter but may make a contribution for the purposes
provided by this chapter.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was
passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 21st day of October, 1968,
by the following vote:
AY;S: COUNCILI4EN HEISEY, HOSKING, REES, RUCKER, $TIERN, VETTER,
ABSENT COUNCILMEN: .~ ~ .~,~--.4.__~
ABSTAINING COUNCILMEN:
CI'I~ -CLERK and Ex-~Officio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED. this.. _ .:..~'l~s'l:' .. day of Octobef~
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~YOR:of the~C~t~ ~f Bakersfield
APPROVED:
Af avt! of j os tng r tnan es
STATE 01~ CALIFORNIA,~
County of Kern J ss.
MARIAN S. IRVIN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on ................ .O..c...t...o..b...e..~....2...2. ............................................ 19..6...8... she posted on the Bulletin B~ard
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ..... ...O~....t...o_.b..e..?.....2...1. .................................. , 19...6..8..., which ordinance
was numbered ....... .1.[.7...5..9.. ...................... New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 6.50. 050 (RATE
OF ADDITIONAL TAX) OF CHAPTER 6.50 (BUSINESS
PROMOTION DISTRICT) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF
THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
22nd da of October ,19 68
Notary Public in and for ~he County of Kern, State of California
· ~ OFFICIAL SEAL
WALTER W. SMITH
NOT,r,~. PiJBI. IC- CALIFORNIA ~
~ PRI~' ~AL OFFICE IN
~ ;.(ERN COUNTY
WALTER W, SMITH
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