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ORDINANCE NO. 929
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA ADDING CHAPTER 6C TO ARTICLE VI OF
THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH A
TAX ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE FAMILY KESIDENCES
AND DECLARTNG THE PRESENCE OF AN EMERGENCY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
O~AIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. There is herewith added Chapter 6C to Article
VI of the Santa Monica Municipal Code which chapter shall read as follows:
CHAPTER 6C. Tax on the Creation of Residential
Dwellin3s.
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Section 6675.] Residential Dwelling Tax. A single
family residential business license tax is imposed solely for
revenue purposes on the development and construction of all
single family residential structures in the sum of $1,000.
per planned salable unit. No such tax shall be imposed upon
the development or construction of any such single family
residential unit for which a completed sale has occurred or
for which a condominium license tax has been paid pursuant to
Chapter 6B. Each of the provisions of Chapter 6B relating to
condominium tax law for tax an condominiums shall be applied
equally to single family residences. This tax shall not be
applicable to any person constructing no more than one single
family residential structure during anyone year period for
his own personal residence.
SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica
hereby declares that the taxes required to be paid by this chapter are
assessed pursuant to the taxing power of the City of Santa Monica and are
solely for the purpose of producing revenue.
SECTION 3. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
or appendices thereto inconsistent herewith, to the extent of such incon-
sistencies and no further, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or
phrase of this ordinance is far any reason held to be invalid or uncon-
stitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction,
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such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of the ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica finds
that an emergency exists for the adoption of this ordinance by reason
of the fact that increased demand for public service& such as police,
fire and sanitation and the like, have created an urgent need for
revenue. The construction of new single family residences creates
permanent residents of the City who utilize the urgently needed civic
services imposing a hardship on the present citizens of Santa Monica.
SECTION 6. This ordinance is declared to be an emergency
measure adopted pursuant to the provisions of Section 6lS of the
Santa Monica Municipal Charter and is necessary for preserving the
public peace, health, or safety, and the urgency for its adoption is
set forth in the findings above.
SECTION 7. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be publiShed once in the official newspaper within 15 days
after its adoption. This ordinance shall become effective upon its
adoption.
31st day of
August
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ADOPTED this
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SSe
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly and
regularly introduced and adopted at a meeting of the City Council of
the City of Santa Monica on the
31st
day of
Au~ust
,
1973, pursuant to Section 615 of the Charter of the City of Santa
Monica, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
Councilmen:
Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives,
van den Steenhoven, Hoover
None
NOES:
Councilmen:
ABSENT:
Councilmen:
Dituri
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Acting C!ty~Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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