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An ordinance amending Ori%Lie�T6. 12736, entitled:
"An ordinance imposing a yearly tax upon any private
person, firm or corporation, other than an authorized
public utility, which shall maintain and operate, in any
multiple occupancy building in the City of Saint Paul,
as landlord or otherwise, a business or business activity
which shall involve the resale, by any such private person,
firm or corporation, of electric energy purchased from
any authorized public utility, by any such private person,
firm or corporation, to any tenant, or tenants, occupant
or occupants of any such multiple occupancy building;
providing for the manner of payment of such tax; and pro-
viding for penalties for any violation of this ordinance.
This is an emergency ordinance rendered necessary for the
preservation of the public peace, health and safety."
approved June 16, 1964. This is an emergency ordinance
rendered necessary for the preservation of the public peace,
health and safety.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That ordinance-No., 12736, approved -June 16, 19641
hereby is.amended by striking Section 1 thereof in its entirety
and substituting in lieu thereof a new Section 1 toy -;read as follows:
"Section 1. That there is hereby levied, assessed,
and imposed a tax on every private person, firm, or corpora-
tion, other than an authorized public utility, which shall
maintain and operate, in any multiple occupancy buildinjg
in the City of Saint Paul, as landlord or otherwise, a "busi-
ness or business activity which shall involve the resale,
whether remetered or not, by any such private- person, firm,
or corporation, of electric energy purah&s'ed,from any
authorized public utility by any such private person, firm,
or corporation, to any tenant or tenants, occupant or occupants,
of any such multiple occupancy building, which tax shall be
an annual tax and which shall be, in amount, 2% of the gross
charges for electric energy purchased from any authorized
public utility by any such private person, firm or corporation
in any such multiple occupancy building within the limits of
the City of Saint Paul, said 2% of such gross charges, when
considered with and added to the 5% of gross charges for said
public utilities otherwise paid to the City of Saint Paul throug�i
said public utility, constituting the equivalent of 5% of
grossievenues derived from such resale of electric energy
in such multiple occupancy building within the limits of the
City of Saint Paul.
Sec. 2. That ordinance No. 12736, approved June 16, 19649
hereby is further amended by striking Section 2 thereof in its
Antiretv_ and substitutine in lieu thereof a new Seat-ion 2 to T
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as follows:
"Sec. 2. Every person, firm or corporation required,
by the provisions of Section 1, to pay such tax as in
said section provided, shall annually, on or before the
first Monday in February, file with the Commissioner
of Finance a statement, subscribed and sworn to by an
- authorized officer, if a corporation, or by an individual
charged with management or control of the business or
business activity, if not a corporation, setting forth
the separate monthly charges for each month for the preceding
calendar year of the gross monthly charges for electric
energy purchased by such person, firm or corporation, from
an authorized public utility. A monthly billing statement
received from such authorized public utility will be
acceptable substantiation for such annual statement,_
regardless of the meter reading date established by
such authcr ized public utility. Such annual stdnments
shall be in a form acceptable to the City Comptroller,
and after receipt of such form by the Commissioner 'of
Finance, said Commissioner shall transmit the same to
the Comptroller for permanent filing in the Comptroller t s
office as a public record."
Sec. 3. That ordinance No. 12736, approved June 16, 19642
hereby-is further amended by adding a new section, following
Section 2, to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The tax required to be paid pursuant to the
Provisions of Section 1 hereof shall be paid to the Commissioner
of Finance on or before the first Monday in March of each
year. The tax for the calendar year 1964 shall be prorated
from the 27th day of June, 1964."
Sec. 4. That ordinance No. 12736, approved June 16, 19641
hereby is further amended by striking Section 3 thereof in its
entirety and substituting in lieu thereof a new section, renumbered
Section 4, to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. That if any person, firm or corporation required
to pay a tax by the terms of this ordinance shall fail to pay the
_same on or before the first Monday of March in any year, there shall
be added to said annual tax so in default, a penalty of ten per cent.
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Sea. 5. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency
ordinance rendered necessary for the preservation of the public
peace, health and safety.
Sec.6. This ordinance
its passage, approval and p
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Holland
Loss
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Peterson
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Attest:
City Cler
shall take effect and be in force upon
blication.
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Passed by the Council DEC 2 9 1964
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