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CITY OF CLERMONT
CODE ORDINANCE
NO. 262-C
AN ORDINANCE UNDER THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT, LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPrER 21,
ARTICLE I, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES PROVIDING FOR A
PUBLIC SERVICE TAX ON THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY,
METERED OR BOTTLED GAS, FUEL OIL AND TELECOMMUNICATION
SERVICES, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, LAKE COUNTY,
FLORIDA, HEREBY ORDAINS THAT:
SECTION 1.
Section 21-1 of Article I, Tax on Utilities, Fuel Oil, Metered
or Bottled Gas, of Chapter 21, Code of Ordinances is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Section 21-1. Tax collected by seller based upon charges or
sales to purchaser.
There is hereby levied by the City a tax on each sale in said
City of electricity, metered or bottled gas, bulk gas,
telecommunication services and fuel oil sales. Said tax is hereby
levied in the following amounts and manners:
(a) Electricity, metered or bottled gas, and bulk gas. An
amount equal to eight and one-half percent (8.5%) of the
taxable purchase amount.
(b) Telecommunication service. An amount equal to seven
percent (7.0%) of the taxable telecommunication service
as defined in Florida Statutes 203.012.
(c) Fuel oil. An amount equal to 3.4 cents per gallon of
fuel oil.
SECTION 2.
Sections 21-2 and 21-4 of Article I, Chapter 21, are hereby
amended as follows:
Wherever the words "telephone service, telegraph service"
appear, such words shall be replaced with
"telecommunica tion service".
SECTION 3.
Section 21-5 of Article I, Chapter 21, is hereby deleted and
subsequent sections shall be renumbered.
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SECTION 4.
Should any section or part of this section be declared invalid by
any court of competent jurisdiction, such adjudications shall not
apply or affect any other provision of this ordinance, except to
the extent that the entire section or part of the section may be
inseparable in meaning and effect from the section to which such
holding shall apply.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall be published as provided by law and it shall
be come law and take effect immediately upon its second reading
and final passage.
of ~'1989.
aUF' 1989.
PASSED AND ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT,
LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, THIS .J..:l.-.uA- DAY OF t1u.;¡'<JA- , 1989.
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~sePh E. {;~ Zile, City Clerk