Ordinance No. 2025-007C CLER' M, CITY OF CLEPMONT C���� ORDINANCE NO.2025-007 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA, REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY SECTIONS 34- 126 THROUGH 34-140 OF ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 34 OF THE CITY CODE REGARDING BUSINESS TAX RECEIPTS AND PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, THE ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENERS ERROR, PUBLICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City of Clermont, Florida is a duly constituted Florida municipality having such power and authority conferred upon it by the Florida Constitution and Chapter 166, Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority contained in §205.043, Fla. Stat., the City Council enacted and codified provisions in Chapter 34 of the City Code authorizing the levy of a business tax; and WHEREAS, pursuant to §205.0535(5), Fla. Stat., the City Council may by ordinance repeal the business tax it originally promulgated; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is appropriate to eliminate business taxes in the City and to repeal in its entirety Article IV of Chapter 34 of the City Code entitled "Local Business Tax." NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Clermont that: SECTION 1: RECITALS The whereas clauses are incorporated herein as true and correct and as the findings of the City Council. SECTION 2: REPEAL Sections 34-126 through 34-140 of Article IV of Chapter 34 of the City Code, entitled Local Business Tax, are hereby repealed in their entirety. SECTION 3: CONFLICT All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with any of the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed. CITY OF CLERMONT R�CORDINANCE NO.2025-007 SECTION 4: SEVERABILITY If any portion of this Ordinance is declared invalid, the invalidated portion shall be severed from the remainder of the Ordinance, and the remainder of the Ordinance shall continue in full force and effect as if enacted without the invalidated portion, except in cases where such continued validity of the remainder would clearly and without doubt contradict or frustrate the intent of the Ordinance as a whole. SECTION 5: CODIFICATION The text of Section 2 of this Ordinance shall be codified as a part of the Clermont City Code. The codifier is authorized to make editorial changes not effecting the substance of this Ordinance by the substitution of "Article" for "Ordinance", "Section" for "Paragraph", or otherwise to take such editorial license. SECTION 6: ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENERS ERROR Regardless of whether such inclusion in the Code as described in Section 5 is accomplished, sections of the Ordinance may be re -numbered or re -lettered and the correction of typographical and/or scrivener's errors which do not affect the intent may be authorized by the City Manager or designee, without need of public hearing, by filing a corrected or re -codified copy of same with the City Clerk. SECTION 7: PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE This Ordinance shall be published as provided by law and it shall become law and shall take effect immediately upon its Second Reading and Final Passage. S CLE06NT CITY OF CLERMONT �, ORDINANCE NO.2025-007 PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Clermont, Lake County, Florida on this 280' day of January 2025. CITY OF CLERMONT Tim Murry, Mayor Tracy Ackr yd Howe, MMC City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: Christian W. Waughvinterim City Attorney