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ORDINANCE NUMBER 1541
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH INCREASING
THE CITY'S TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX, REVISING THE
HOTEL VISITOR TAX (TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX)
ORDINANCE AND AMENDING TITLE 4 OF THE SEAL BEACH
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT
OCCUPANCY TAX
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Increase of Tax. 9 4.35.010 of the Seal Beach Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"9 4.35.010 Imposition.
A. Rate. For the privilege of occupancy in any hotel, each transient is
subject to and shall pay a tax in the amount of 12% of the rent charged by the
operator."
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Section 2. Amendment and ReDeal. Notwithstanding California
Elections Code Section 9217, without a vote of the people, the Seal Beach City
Council may do any of the following: (i) repeal this Ordinance; (ii) reduce the rate
of the transient occupancy tax below twelve percent (12%); (iii) increase the rate
of the transient occupancy tax to twelve percent (12%) if it previously has been
reduced below such rate; or (iv) amend the Transient Occupancy Tax Ordinance
in any other manner that does not increase the rate of the transient occupancy
tax in excess of twelve percent (12%). In no event shall the Seal Beach City
Council increase the rate of the transient occupancy tax in excess of twelve
percent (12%) without approval by a majority of voters voting in an election on
the increase.
Section 3. Findinas and Intent.
A. This Ordinance was proposed by the Seal Beach City Council
through the adoption of Resolution Number 5389 by the affirmative votes of
not less than four of its members as required by California Government Code
Section 53724(b).
B. Section 1 of this Ordinance is intended to increase the transient
occupancy tax to a rate of twelve percent (12%) and thereby authorize future
collections of the tax at such rate.
Section 4. Seve ra bilitv. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance or any part thereof is for
any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or any part thereof. The people of the
City of Seal Beach hereby declare that they would have passed each section,
subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof,
irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, subdivisions,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
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Section 5. Execution. The Mayor is hereby authorized to attest to the
adoption of this Ordinance by signing where indicated below.
I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was PASSED, APPROVED
and ADOPTED by the people of the City of Seal Beach voting on the 28th day
of March , 2006
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Charles Antos, Mayor
Attest:
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
(2015.5 C.C.P.)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Orange
This space is for the County
Clerk's Filing Stamp
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I am a citizen of the United States
and a resident of the county afore-
said; I am over the age of eighteen
years, and not a party to or inter-
ested in the above-entitled matter.
I am the principal clerk of the printer
of the SEAL BEACH SUN, a
newspaper of general circulation,
printed and published weekly in the
City of Seal Beach, County of
Orange and which newspaper has
been adjudged a newspaper of
general circulation by the Superior
Court of the County of Orange, State
of California, under the date of
2/24/75. Case Number A82583; that
the notice of which the annexed is a
printed copy (set in type not smaller
than nonpareil), has been published
in each regular and entire issue of
said newspaper and not in any
supplement thereof on the following
dates, to-wit:
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all i the year 2006.
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I certify (or declare) under penalty of
perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct.
Dated at Seal Beac ! CA'L
. s \?J day of \
,2006.
Signature
PUBLICATION PROCESSED BY:
THE SEAL BEACH SUN
216 Main Street
Seal Beach, CA 90740
(562) 430-7555
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