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ORDINANCE NO. 631.
10-2(.P-\9-3.9
AN ORDIN!NCE IEVYIOO A TAX UPON ALL ffiOPmTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION
WITHIN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, FOR THE SUPPORT OF 'lRE CITY
FOR THE YFAR 1939, APPORTIONING SAID LEVY AMONG THE VARIOUS FONOO
AND ITEMS FOR VYHICH REVENUE MUS!' BE RAISED, LEVYING AN OCCUPATION
TAX UPON ALL OCCUPATIONS TAXABLE AND FIXmG THE TIME IN WHICH SAID
TAXES BE PAID, ASSESSING PENALTY AND INTEREST P'~ THE NON P.An!ENr
OF SOOH TAXES wrMIN ·THE TIME SET, AND DECLARING AN FMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY '1HE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: There shall be levied am assessed upon all property
subject to taxation within the City ot Lubbock, Texas, tor the year
1939, the sum of $1.05 per $100.00 valuation thereof, and the same
shall be applied to the various :funds in the following manner.
Interest and Sinking Fund
Board of Ci cy Development ]Und
General Fund
SECTION 2. All advalorem taxes shall be paid before the first day
ot February, 1940, and taxes not paid by that date shall have to
said taxes added the sum ot 1~ penalty and bear interest from said
date at o% and thereafter such tees and costs shall be added as
provided tor State and County Taxes.
SECTION 3. There is levied upon all occupations taxable one-halt
(l/2) the sum charged by the State or Texas for pursuing such
oc cupa.tion.
SECTICN 4. The fact that the time tor the payment of 1939 taxes as
provided by law has passed and City Taxes are now due, and the f'Urther
tact that tbe tax rate tor the City or Lubbock has not been fixed tor
the year 1939, and the further tact that many citizens and property
owners are now ready to pay their taxes, but are unable to do so
because of the failure ot the CitY Commission to set said tax rate
at an earlier date, and the fUrther taot that the City of Lubbock
is in need at funds with which to carry on its municipal government,
creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity, which facts
make it imperative that this ordinance be passed as an emergency
:rrsasure, and the provisions of tbe City Charter pnohibiting the
passage or an Ordinance on the day it is introduced, is hereby
waived, and this Ordinance shall take efteot trom and after the
date of its passage, and it is so ordered.
Passed and approved this the 26th
A.D. 1939.
of October _,