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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. ________________________________ Presiding Officer of the City Council Attest: __________________________________ Lara Weisiger, City Clerk City of Alameda * * * * * * 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. ______________________ Lara Weisiger, City Clerk City of Alameda