O-60-189
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ORDINANCE NO. 189
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 15 OF CHAPTER 10
OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF TIlE CITY
OF CLERMONT. FLORIDA. ON JUNE 6, 1928.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT. FLORIDA:
SECTION I: That Section 15 of Chapter 10 of the Revised General
Ordinances of the City of Clermont, passed by the City Council of said
city on June 6, 1928, and approved by the mayor of said city on June 19, 1928,
be, and the same is hereby, amended in its entirety to read as follows:
In all matters pertaining to the assessment and collection
of taxes where the same are not provided for in these ordinances
and in the Charter of the City, the provisions of the general laws
of the State of Florida relative to like matters shall govern. Taxes
shall be due and payable on November 1st of each year and dis-
counts shall be allowed on taxes paid in the following months of
each year: 4% if paid in November, 3% if paid in December, 2%
if paid in January, and 1% if paid in February of the following
year.
All unpaid taxes upon real estate shall become delinquent on April
1st of the year following the year in which such taxes were assessed,
and shall bear interest from such date at the rate of eighteen per
centum per annum for the first year and eight per centum per annum
for the time after the first year and the tax collector shall, on or
before June 1st of each year, advertise and sell in the manner
following: He shall make out a statement of all such real estate,
specifying the amount due on each parcel, including interest from
April 1st to date of sale at the rate of eighteen per centum per
annum, together with the cost of advertising and expense of sale
in the same order in which the lands were assessed, and such list
shall be published once each week for four (4) consecutive weeks
in a newspaper published in the city. If there be more than one (1)
newspaper published in the city, the Council shall at the first meet-
ing in April of each year, designate the newspaper in which such
list shall be published. If there be no newspaper published in the
city, then such list shall be posted in three (3) public places in the
city for (4) consecutive weeks, one of said places shall be the office
of the City Clerk, and the newspaper charges for advertising shall
be 25¢ per line for four (4) insertions, per single column and if
there be no newspaper published in the city the tax collector shall
receive the same for posting at three (3) public places, but in
neither case shall there be any charge for the head notice.
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Charges at the rates specified herein shall be computed and
paid for on the basis of 6-point type on 6-point body, and shall be
charged without discount, rebate, commission or refund.
The Clerk of the city shall audit said publisher's charges
or the tax collector's charges for posting, as the case may be,
and the Council shall pay the same out of general funds.
Lands upon which taxes have become delinquent
may be redeemed at any time between April first and the
date of sale of the tax sale certificate upon payment of all
cosæ and delinquent taxes and interest on such amount at
the rate of eighteen per centum per annum, but not less
than three per cent of the delinquent taxes and costs.
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In all other matters pertaining to the sale of said
lands upon which real estate taxes are delinquent, the
issuance of tax certificates, their redemption and records
to be kept in connection therewith the provisions of §l93. 52
to 193.62 inclusive, Florida Statutes 1959 are hereby by
reference thereto adopted and made a part hereof as if fully
and at large set forth herein except that as to triplicate
lists as required and provided for in §l93. 58. Only one list
shall be kept and this list may be kept in a bound volume
or may be kept on a card system.
SECTION n. That the City Council of the City of Clermont, Florida
finds it necessary to declare the passage of this ordinance to be an emergency
measure, and therefore same shall become effective immediately upon its
passage, but no provision hereinabove shall in any way affect or pertain to
taxes levied and assessed by said city for the year of 1959, which taxes if
unpaid are now delinquent.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Clermont,
Lake County, Florida at iæ regular meeting h July 5, 1960 in Clermont,
Florida, upon three readings thereof.
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RECEWED AND APPROVED by me this July 5, 1960.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy of this Ordinance was duly posted in
accordance with the Charter and Ordinances of the City of Clermont. ..<f""""'"
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