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TAX RATE
ORDINANCE NO. 02-3351
AN ORDINANCE LEVYING MUNICIPAL AD VALOREM TAXES
FOR THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW, TEXAS, FOR THE YEAR 2002,
AND .DIRECTING THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION
THEREOF; SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; CUMULATIVENESS
CLAUSE; CONFLICTS CLAUSE; AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
Whereas, the City: Council finds that the tax for the year 2002,. hereinafter levied
for current expenses and general improvements of the City and its property, must
be levied to provide for the ensuing year.
The City of Plainview hereby ordains, that:
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There is hereby levied and there shall be collected for the use and support of the
Municipal government, a tax of ...forty-five and seventy-five hundredths. cents
{$.4575) on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) valuation of all property, real,
personal and mixed within the corporate limits of said city, subject to taxation, for
the specific purposes herein set forth:
(a} For the current expenditures of the City of Plainview and for the
general improvement, use and support of the City, ..and its property,
there is hereby levied and ordered to be assessed and collected for
the Year 2002 on all property situation within the limits of the City and
not exempt from taxation by valid law, an ad valorem tax at the rate
of forty-one and five hundredths cents. ($.4105) on the one hundred
dollars ($100.00) valuation of such property.
(b) For the current. expenditure of the City. of Plainview and to be
dedicated for street construction and repair which is in addition to
and outside the normal street maintenance funds budgeted in the
General Fund Street Department, there is hereby levied and ordered
to be assessed and collected for the year 2001 on all properly
situated within the limits of the City, and not exempt from taxation by
valid law, an ad valorem tax rate of four and seventy hundredths
cents ($.047) on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) valuation of such
property. The revenue received from this .047 cents for the 2002-
2003 fiscal year and subsequent years-- revenue shall be transferred
to the Street Improvement Fund as received and used for the specific
purpose as herein set forth.
F n Section II:
The ad valorem taxes levied shall become due on October 1, 2002, and may be
,x paid up to and including the following January 31, without penalty, but if not so
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paid, such taxes shall become delinquent on the following day, February 1, and
the penalty and interest designated by State Law shall be collected for each
month or portion of the month that the delinquent taxes remain unpaid. Interest
and penalty collected from such delinquent taxes shall be appropriated to the
General Fund of the City. of Plainview. The rate of interest to be collected on
delinquenttaxes'sha~l be in accordance with State Law.
Section III:
The taxes herein levied shall be a first and prior lien against the properly upon
which they are assessed and the said first lien shall be superior and prior to all
other 'liens, charges and encumbrances, and this'. lien' shall attache to personal
property to the 'same extent and priorities. as real estate.. The .Liens provided
herein attached as of January 1, 2003.
Section IV - Severability:
If any section,. subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance
is, for any reason, held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct, and independent
provision and such holding shall not effect-the validity of the remaining provisions
thereof.
Section V -Cumulativeness:
Provisions of this ordinance are cumulative and nothing herein shall. prevent,
alter, or diminish the applicability or enforcement of other ordinances restricting,
regulating, or governing he subject matter herein.
Section VI -Conflicts:
All ordinances or portion of any ordinance of the City of Plainview, Texas, in
conflict herewith, are hereby amended to conform with the .provisions hereof.
Section VII -Effective Date: This Ordinance shall become Effective on October
1, 2002.
Passed and .Approved on first reading this 10t" day of September, 2002.
Passed and Approved on second reading this 24t" day of September, 2002.
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Belinda Hinojosa, City Sec e ; - ry
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVE/D AS TO FORM:
c Keller, dget anager Wally Hat ,City Attorney
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