Ordinance - 1649ORDINANCE NO. 1649
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 21-45 OF THE WEST COVINA
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE IMPOSITION OF A TRANSIENT
OCCUPANCY TAX.
0 The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as follows:
Section 1. Section 21-45 of the West Covina Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
a. "For the privilege of occupancy in any hotel, any transient
is subject to and shall pay a tax in an amount to be set by resolution of the
City Council. Such tax constitutes a debt owed by the transient to the City
which is extinguished only by payment to the operator or to the City. The
transient shall pay the tax to the operator of the hotel at the time the rent
is paid. If the rent is paid in installments, a proportionate share of the
tax shall be paid with each installment. The unpaid tax shall be due upon
the transient's ceasing to occupy space in the hotel. If for any reason the
the tax is not paid to the operator of the hotel, the tax administrator may
require that such tax be paid directly to the tax administrator."
Section 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law.
0 ATTEST:
Passed and approved this fit— day of October , 1984.
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Mayor
I, HELENE MOONEY, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, California,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. _1649 was regularly intro-
duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council
on the loth day of _September , 1984. That, thereafter, said ordinance
was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the
_1st day of October , 1984, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Manners, Chappell, Bacon
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Tennant
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Shearer
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorn,y
C E'R T I F I C A T I O N
State of California. )
County of Los Angeles ) ss. `
City of West Covina. )
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
West Covina., Sta.te of California., do hereby certify
that a true and accurate copy of Ordinance No. '7
was published, pursuant to law, in the West Covina.
Tribune, a. newspaper of general circula.tion published
and circulated -in the City of West Covina..
a.net 4 Berry, Deputy City Clerk
City of West Covina, California
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