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ORDINANCE NO. B -193$
AN OR DINANCE relating to revenue and taxation; providing for the levying and collection
of a tax upon the gross revenues of the combined water and sewer department
and the garbage department; and declaring an em
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That from and after January 1, 195 7, there is hereby levied and
there shall be collected from the combined water and sewe department of the City of
Yakima a tax at the rate of ten per cent (10 %) of the total gross revenues of said
department; provided, however, that in computing said gross revenues there shall be
deducted therefrom and the tax provided for herein shall not apply to amounts received
by the Water Department for new services and from revenues derived from the construction
or extension of water or sewer facilities.
Section 2. That from and after January 1, 1957, there is hereby levied and
there shall be collected from the garbage department of the City of Yakima a. tax at the
rate of five per cent (5%) of the total gross revenues of said department.
Section 3. That the aforementioned taxes are hereby found to be reasonable
and not disproportionate to the amount of taxes which would be payable if such services
were performed by a private utility.
Section 4. The taxes proposed hereby shall be due and payable on or before
the 15th day of each month on the basis of gross revenues for the last preceding calendar
month. The first of such payments shall become due on or before February 15, 1957.
Section 5. The taxes provided for herein shall be paid by means of a
transfer of funds from the municipal water fund and the municipal garbage collection
service fund to the current expense fund of the City of Yakima, and the City Treasurer
is hereby authorized and directed to make such transfers each month as set forth above.
11 Section 6. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, property, health and safety and an emergency is hereby declared to
exist.
PASSED by the unanimous vote of the City Commission of the City of Yakima
this 1st day of October, 1956.
ATTEST: J. A. SMITH (S E A L) C. H. BEHNKE
City Clerk Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance
No. B -193$ entitled "AN ORDINANCE relating to revenue and taxation; providing for the
levying and collection of a tax upon the gross revenues of the combined water and sewer
department and the garbage department; and declaring an emergency." as passed on the
1st day of October, 1956, and that same has been published agrequired by law.
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