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ORDINANCE NO. B -2049
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. B- 585 "AN ORDINANCE levying an admission tax
on persons paying admissions, or who are admitted fred or at reduced rates
to any place; fixing the amount and providing for collection thereof;
prescribing penalties; and declaring an .emergency.'
BE IT ORDAINID BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. 'Section 2 (a) of `' rdinance B -585 be, and the same is hereby,
amended to read as follows:
"Section 2. (a) There is hereby levied and imposed upon every person (incl-
uding childred, without regard to age) who pays an admission charge to any place, includ-
ing a tax on persons who are admitted free of charge or at reduced rates to any place for
which other persons pay charge or a regular higher charge for the same or similar privi-
leges or accommodations, which said tax shall be in the amount of one cent for each twenty
cents or fraction thereof paid for the admission charge; provided, however, that the rate
of tax applicable to admission charges to theatres for the purpose of viewing motion pic-
tures shall be one cent for each forty cents or fraction thereof paid for the admission
charge."
Section 2. This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after its passage,
approval and publication as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 2nd day of July,1957.
ATTEST: J.A. SMITH ( S E A L ) JOE K. ALDERSON
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct copy of Ordinance
No. B -2049 entitled "AN ORDINANCE amending ' rdinance No. B -585 entitled "AN ORDINANCE
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levying an admission tax on persons paying admissions, or who are admitted free or at re-
duced rates to any place; fixing the amount and providing for the collection thereof;
prescribing penalties; and declaring an emergency." as passed on the 2nd day of July,
1957, and that the same has been published as required by law.
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