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ORDINANCE NO. 4 5 7 1
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 3.40.010 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
TRANSIENT LODGING TAX.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 3.40.010 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
3.40.010 Definitions.
The words and phrases set out in this section, when used in this chapter, shall,
for the purpose of this chapter, have the following respective meanings except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
A. Hotel means any public or private hotel, inn, hostelry, tourist home or
house, motel, roominghouse or other lodging place within the city offering lodging,
wherein the owner and operator thereof, for compensation, furnishes lodging to any
transient as defined in subsection E of this section.
B. Permanent resident means any person who, as of a given date, has
occupied or has had the right to occupy a room or rooms in a particular hotel, as defined
in subsection A of this section, for the thirty consecutive days next preceding such date.
C. Room rental means the total charge made by any such hotel for lodging
and/or lodging space furnished any such transient. If the charge made by such hotel to
such transient includes any charge for serves or accommodations in addition to that of
lodging, and/or the use of lodging space, then such portion of the total charges as
represents only room and/or lodging space rental shall be distinctly set out and billed on
the transient by such hotel as a separate item.
D. Tax collector means the tax collector for the City of Bakersfield.
E. Transient means any person who, for any period of not more than thirty
consecutive days, either at his own expense or at the expense of another, obtains
lodging or the use of any lodging space in any hotel as defined in subsection A of this
section, for which lodging or use of lodging space a charge is made. For purposes of
this section only, "person" does not mean partnership, corporation or association of any
nature whatsoever.
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ORIGINAL.
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provisions of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after
the date of its passage.
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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 MAY 0 6 2009 ,
by the following vote:
AYES' COUNCILMEMBER CARSON, BENHAM, WEIR, COUCH, HANSON, SULLIVAN, SCRIVNER
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ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERâ–º^~~
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PAMELA A. McCARTHY, MIJU
CITY CLERK and EX OFFICI of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED: MAY 0 6 2009
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By:
HARVEY L HALL
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
By:
CHRISTINE K. IM
Associate City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
PAMELA A. McCARTHY, 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 the 7th day of May , 2009 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City
Hall, a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4571 , passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 6th day of May, 2009 and entitled:
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 3.40.010 OF THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO TRANSIENT LODGING TAX.
PAMELA A. McCARTHY
City Clerk and Ex Officio of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
By:
DEPUTY City Clerk
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