O-53-117
ORDINANCE NO. //7
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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUING
OF DUPLICATE TAX SALE CERTIFICATES HERE-
TOFORE ISSUED OR HEREAFTER ISSUED BY THE
CITY OF CLERMONT, WHICH CERTIFICATES HAVE
BEEN LOST OR DESTROYED; PROVIDIf\\3 FOR BONB
INDEMNIFYING THE CITY OF CLERMONT FOR LœS;
PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CCUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT I
FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, from time to time owners of tax sale certificates
representing delinquent taxes levied and assessed by the City of
Clermont and lost by the ownes thereof request the issµing of
duplicates thereof and/or owners of certificates are requesting
the City to cancel same of record or purchasers of property and/or
owners are desiring to redeem said certificates and there is no
provision under the general ordinances of the City of Clermont
providing for the manner and form for application of dup~ate
certificates and providing for indemnifying the City against loss
of the original lost or destroyed tax certificate if same has been
assigned to some other person other than the original purchasers of
same; therefore
Section 1. That hereinafter any owners of a tax sale certi-
ficate regularly sold by the City of Clermont covering delinquent
taxes for any year prior or subsequent hereto or his or her assignee
thereof shall be entitled to the issuance of a duplicate ~ax sale
certificate upon application to the City Clerk of the City of Clermont
which application shall describe the certificate by number and year
issued and the amount of the original face value thereof; shall provide
that the certificate or any interest therein has not been sold or
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transferred or assigned to anyone for a valuable consideration; and
that the certificate has been lost or destroyed and diligent search
does not reveal same; and if duplicate is issued thereof that if
the original is found it will be returned to the City for cancellation.
That said application shall embrace therein a bond to be signed
by the applicant as principal thereof together with two sureties
which sureties shall be residents of the City of Clermont and/or
Lake County, State of Florida, in double the amount of the original
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face value of the certificate and shall provide that said prin-
cipal and sureties shall jointly and severally bind themselves,
their heirs, executors and administrators, for the payment thereof
if said certificate should be presented to the city of Clermont by
any person whomsoever, assigned or otherwise, for payment or applic-
ation for tax deed thereon.
That said application shall be approved at any regular or
special meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont or
adjourned meeting thereof and that said application shall further
provide therein for the applicant to appoint the City Clerk of the
City of Clermont as his or her attorney in fact for the purpose of
signing same as said attorney in fact to effect the'cancellation of
said certificate on the tax sale records of the City of Clermont.
2. That said application for duplicate tax sale certificate
and/or cancellation thereof shall be in form as follows:
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section 3.
That this ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon its passage and approval by the Mayor.
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PASSED by the City
a.ó \'''"''^I>''-~
regular~meeting held on
Council of the City of Clermont
~\\ \~~, 1953.
at its
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~~sident of City ~uncil
Attest:
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APPROVED by me this May 19th, 1953.
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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR
LOCAL OR SPECIXL LEGISLATION
NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to the
1953 Legislature of the State of Florida for the passage of a
special or local law providing in effect for the amendment of the
charter of the City of Clermont to provide for the appointment of
a city tax assessor instead of the annual election of a city tax
assessor and authorizing the city tax assessor to employ any
person, firm or corporation to assist in the annual assessment
of all property in the City of Clermont, Florida.
By Order of the City Council of the City of Clermont.
A. M. JOHNSON, City Clerk
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