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City Council Meeting 9-10-91 Santa Monica, California
STAFF REPORT
TO: Mayor and city Council
FROM: City Attorney
SUBJECT: Ordinance Amending Santa Monica Municipal Code
section 6053B to Exempt civic Auditorium Lessees
from Business License Fees
At its meeting on August 20, 1991, the City Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance exempting Civic
Auditorium events from the City's business license fees. The
ordinance is now presented to the City Council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 9-10-91 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 15 9 8 (C C s )
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 6053B TO EXEMPT CIVIC AUDITORIUM
LESSEES FROM BUSINESS LICENSE FEES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1- Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 6053B is
amended to read as follows: ~
SECTION 6053B. Special Event (Tax
Rate Group VI). This business
classification is in Tax Rate Group VI
and applies to recreation, entertainment,
cultural, and educational events and
exhibitions which are conducted from a
non-permanent location and for limited
periods of time. Included in such
classification are sporting events/
competitions, circuses, carnivals, and
trade shows. Notwithstanding the above,
all events held at the Civic AUditorium
including sporting events/competitions,
circuses, carnivals and trade shows,
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shall not be subject to business license
fees, but shall be required to obtain any
other permits required by this Code.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any sect~on, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
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remaining portions of this ordinance. The City council hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
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SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the city Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS . .
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Adopted and approved this lOth day of September, 1991-
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I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance No. 1598 (CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the 20th day of August 1991; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City Council on
the lOth day of September 1991 by the following Council vote:
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Ayes: Councilmembers: Genser, Holbrook, Katz, Olsen,
Vazquez, Zane, Mayor Abdo
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
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