Ordinance 3075CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. 3075
AMENDING ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL CODE 5-7.1 -
PENALTY FOR NONPAYMENT OF ANNUAL QUARTERLY
OR SEMI-ANNUAL LICENSE
WHEREAS, In accordance with Section 5-2.1 of the City’s Municipal
Code, 5-2.1, It shall be unlawful for any person, either for himself/herself or for
any other person, to commence, conduct, carry on or engage in any business in
this chapter specified, in the City without first having procured a license from the
City to do so, or without complying with any and all regulations of such business
contained in this chapter; and the carrying on of any business without first having
procured a license from the City to do so, or without complying with any and all
regulations of this chapter shall constitute a separate violation of this code for
each and every day that such business is so carried on or conducted; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 5-7.1 of the City’s Municipal
Code, Penalty for Nonpayment of Annual, Quarterly or Semi-Annual License,
every annual or quarterly license which is not paid within a period of thirty (30)
days from the time the same becomes due and payable is hereby declared to be
delinquent and the Bureau of Licenses shall thereupon add to the license and
collect a penalty of ten (10%) percent of the license so delinquent for each month
the license remains unpaid, provided that the amount to be added shall in no
event exceed sixty (60%) percent of the amount due; and
WHEREAS, The City desires to encourage timely payments of business
license taxes due to the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Alameda does hereby
ordain to amend Section 5-7.1 of the City’s Municipal Code to read as follows:
Every annual or quarterly license which is not paid within a period of thirty
(30) days from the time the same becomes due and payable is hereby
declared to be delinquent and the Bureau of Licenses shall thereupon add
to the license and collect a penalty of twenty (20%) percent of the license
so delinquent for each month the license remains unpaid, provided that
the amount to be added shall in no event exceed one hundred (100%)
percent of the amount due.
Section 3. This ordinance hall be in full force and effect from and after the
expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of its final passage.
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Presiding Officer of the City Council
Attest:
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Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
and regularly adopted and passed by Council of the City of Alameda in regular
meeting assembled on the 2nd day of July, 2013, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Chen, Daysog, Ezzy Ashcraft, Tam
and Mayor Gilmore – 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 3rd day of July, 2013.
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Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda