HomeMy WebLinkAbout1968 Ordinance No. 013144
Introduced •• a Bill by councilman Lone.
BY AO'tllOaI'l'Y
ORDDIAllCB m. 13, DUBS OP 1968
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Section 1. '!he City Council find•, determine• and
declare• that, con•iderin9 the nature of utility buaine•••• and
occupation• and the relation thereof to the municipal welfare,
a• well •• the relation thereof to the expenditure• required of
th• City, the cla••ification of •aid bu•in••• and occupations
a• ••parate bu•in••••• and occupation• i• rea80Dable, proper,
uniform and non-dimcriainatory and that th• ..ount of tax imposed
by thi• Ordinance i• rea80Dable, proper, non-demcriminatory and
nec•••ary for the ju•t and proper di•tribution of expenditures
required to be -d• by the City with re•peat to •uch bu•ineasea
and occupation•. Por th•H reaaon•, the Municipal Code of the
City of M9lewood, COlorado, i• hereby •ended by adding thereto
a nMf Section 16.6 which 8hall read a• follow•a
116.6 Utility Bu•in••• and Ocqgpation Tax.
116.6-1 .,~ m· 'l'her• i• hereby levied on and
again•t all utility u.nu ... and occupation•, except a• herein-
after excluded, -1ntaining faciliti•• or carrying on functions
and operation•, or both, within the City of Bnglewood, a tax
on the bu•in••• and occupation of inatalling, .. intaining and
operating •uch utility within the City of Inglewood, and of
•upplying the Hrvic•• and product• thereof to th• inhllhitanta
of th• City of Inglewood. 'lh• amount of tax levied hereby •hall
be equal to thrH (3) per cent of total gro•• revenue• derived
by 8\lch bu•in••••• fre11 cu•ta11er• thereof within the limit• of
th• City of Bnglewood, provided, however, that, in the ca•• of
telephone utiliti••, the •aid tax shall be equal to three (3%)
of the total gro•• r.venuea derived a• a re8Ult of providing
local exchange telephone ••rvic•• to cuatoaer• within the
corporate liait• of the City of IDCJlM«>Od.
116.6-2 lffective late. 'l'h• tu levied by thi• sec-
tion 8hall co enc• onth• .1 ectiv• date hereof, and •hall be
due and payable on the fiftHnth day of the 110nth• of January,
April, July and October of each year for th• period of three
calendar month• next precediDCJ the aaid dat••·
116.6-3 Utility Buain••• and QccuDttion Defined.
'fhe ten •utility bu•in••• and occupation" ilhen uaed in this
•ection 8hall encaapa•• tho•• utilitie• defined a• "public
utiliti••• by the law• of the State of Colorado, but •hall not
•ena and shall not include utiliti•• owned by the City of Bngle-
wod.
116.6-4 Bxclu•i,n•. 'l'he provi•ion• of this section
•hall not apply to any utl It~ bu•in••• or occupation maintain-
iDCJ faciliti•• or carrying on function• and operation• within
the corporate liait• of the City of Bnglewood under a franchise
granted by the City of IDCJlewood, the tema of which said franchise
provide that the f ranchi•• fee or tax papllhle in connection
therewith shall be in lieu of all other fee• and taxe• which
-Y froa time to time be impo•ed by the City of Bnglewood upon
the conduct or operation of a bu•in••• or occupation within the
corporate liait• of the City of ~lewood.
116.6-5 Piling Stat•ent and Pav-nt of Tax. For the
purpo•e of a8Certaining the amount of tax to be paid as required
by thi• ..ction, it •hall be the duty of all utility businesses
and occupation• 8'1bject to the provi•ion• of thi• section, and
th• pre•ident, •ecretary, trea•urer, manager, officer or agent
having general control of the bu•ine•• of auch utility business
or occupation within the City of Bn9lewood, to file a statement,
under oath, in the office of the Director of Finance within
forty-five (45) day• after the end of each calendar quarter descri~ed
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in 116.6-2, ahowin9 the total 9ro•• revenue• received, as pre-
8Cribed in 116.6-1 durin9 •aid quarter, and •aid statement shall
be acccapanied by payment ot the City of Bnglewood of the amount
of the tax for •aid quarter. Said •tat .. ent and payment shall
b9ac:m• delinquent •ixty (60) day• after the end of •aid quarter.
116.6-6 f:tiur• to Payz Penalty. If any utility busi-
n••• or occapation ect to the provl•lon• of thi• aection
•hall fail to pay the tax iapo•ed hereby, within the time pre-
8Cribed by 116.6-5, a penalty in the amount of ten percent (10%)
of th• lllMNftt of tax due ahall be a•••••ed by the City of Englewood
againat such utility bu•in••• or occupation, and the aaid tax
together with the penalty •••••ament •hall be and is hereby de-
clared to be a debt due and owin9 from •uch utility buainess or
occupation to th• City of Bn9l.wood and aubject to collection
by an action at law brought by the City of Bn9lewood in any
court of caapetent jurisdiction for the purpoae of auch collection.
116.6-7 Inapection of Book• and Record•. The City of
BncJlevood and it• officer•, aqent• and repr•••ntativea shall have
the riC)ht, at any reasonable tiae, to exaaine the book• and
record• of the utility bu•in••••• and occupation• which are
subject to the proviaion• of thi• aection, and to make copies of
th• entri•• or content• thereof. ·
116.6-8
It ahall be unlavfu •
by th• provi•ion• of 116.6-5 to file a atat .. ent a• therein re-
quired, to fail, refu•• or neqlect to file auch atatement within
the time and Ila --~ . ..mnaerb.-r•Miill .. ionADf u .. aticqta6f~lliaance ..st.,_ .a..••nbe de.aed to be a violation of a Municipal Ordinance
and any person quilty of a violation may, in addition to subject-
ing hiaaelf, her••lf or it••lf to auch other penaltities or
r~i•• contained in thi• Municipal code, be proaecuted in the
Municipal court of th• city of Bnglevood and •hall be subject
to tho.a fin•• and other penaltitie• or remedie• contained in
thi• llmaiclpal COde, be pro•ecuted in the Municipal Court of
the city of Bn9l.wood and •hall be aubject to tho•• fines and
other penalti•• a• .. y be iapo•ed for a violation of thi• Code
pursuant to the ·provi•ion• of Chapter 27 ·of thi• Code."
S~on 2. If any article, •ection, •ub•ection, sentence,
clau•e, or ~a .. of thi• Ordinance i• for any reason held to
be unconatitutional, illeqal, void, or for any reason unenforce-
able, auch deciaion ahall not affect the validity of the remain-
ing portion• of thi• Ordinance. '1'h• council of the City of
BncJl.wood hereby declare• that it would have phra•ed this or-
dinance and each article, •ection, aubaection, sentence, clause
or phra•• hereof the •am•, irreapective of the fact that any
one or 110r• article•, aection•, aubaectiona, ••ntencea, clauses
and phra .. • be declared uncon•titutional, illeqal, void, or
for any rea80ft unenforceable.
Introduced, read in full, paaaed on firat reading by
the city council of the city of Bnglewood, Colorado, and ordered
publi•hed a• a bill in the Bnglewood Herald and Bnterpriae at
it• regular aeetin9 on the 4th day of March, A.D, 1968.
Amended at the reqular meetin9 of the City Council
of th• City of Bn9l.wood on the 18th day of March, A.D., 1968
and ordered publiahed in it• final ... nded form in the Bngle-
~ Herald and Bnterpri••·
Pa••ed on final reading by the City Council of the City
of Bnglewood, Colorado on the lat day of April 1968, and ordered
publi•hed a• Ordinance llo. 13, Serie• of 1968 in the Bnglewood
Herald and Bnterpri••·
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