1971-03 (Tax Assessment for 1970)R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Laws of Florida 1969, Chapter 69-54, being
Florida Statutes Section 167.433 167.439, provides that the
County Tax Assessor shall assess all property for the City of
Okeechobee for 1970 and thereafter, and
WHEREAS, the City of Okeechobee elected that such first
assessment be made in the year 1970, and
WHEREAS, the County Tax Assessor did assess all property
subject to taxation under the constitution and general laws of
the State of Florida located within the municipal boundaries of
the City of Okeechobee, at its just value and submitted said
assessed valuations to the City Council by copy of recapitulation
sheet submitted to Department of Revenue dated June 30, 1970, and
WHEREAS, said assessed valuations were included on the
1970 County Tax Roll submitted on July 20, 1970, by the Tax
Assessor to the County Board of Tax Adjustment for equalization,
and
WHEREAS, within fifteen days thereafter the Tax Assessor
certified to the City of Okeechobee the total assessed valuations
of all property located within the City of Okeechobee as follows:
MUNICIPAL VALUATION
1.
Wholly Exempt Lands
$ 2,717,615
2.
Delinquent NonExempt Lands
111,780
3.
Delinquent Honestead Lands
21,850
4.
Honestead Current Land (Bonds)
2,866,630
5.
NonExempt Current Land (Bonds & Maint.)
10,606,525
6.
Personal Property
2,116,810
7.
Railroads & Telegraph Companys
185,916
18,627,126
and,
WHEREAS, within the required 30 days thereafter the
City Council of the City of Okeechobee reviewed said assessment
roll and did certify to the County Tax Assessor that millage
or those millages to be levied for all purposes for the year
1970 for the City of Okeechobee as follows:
and,
General City Purposes 6 Mills
Interest and Sinking Fund for
payment of interest and principal
or General Obligation Refunding
Board Issue 1942 2 mills
Total 8 mills
WHEREAS, thereafter, on October 1, 1970 the Tax Assessor
confirmed said certification by letter as follows:
1970 MUNICIPAL VALUATIONS AND TAXES
Homestead Lands $ 2,866,630 $ 5,733.26 2.00 mills
NonExempt Lands 10,606,525 84,852.20 8.00 mills
Personal Property 2,116,810 16,934.48 8.00 mills
Railroads 185,916 1,487.88 8.00 mills
Taxable Valuation $15,775,881 $109,007.82
and,
WHEREAS, the County Tax Assessor extended the tax roll
as required under the general laws of this state, indicating
thereon the taxes levied by the City of Okeechobee, and the
tax roll as extended was then endorsed by certificate by the
County Commissioners and transmitted to the County Tax Collector
as required by law, and
WHEREAS, each of these acts and things were done as
required by law, although some acts and things required to be
done by the City of Okeechobee may have been done with less than
the formality or technical precision as may have been required
by strict interpretation of the law, and the City Coun,,-�il now
desires to correct and render valid and official all acts and
things done by the City under and by virture of Florida Statutes
Sections 167.433 - 167.439 and the determining and certifying
of the millage to the Tax assessor;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA:
That all acts and things done by the City of Okeechobee,
by the Clerk, or by any other proper official, with regard to
the assessment of municipal taxes for the year 1970, the
determination of the millage and Certification thereof to the
Tax Assessor of Okeechobee County, as required by Florida
Statutes 167.433 et seq. bf. and they are hereby ratified,
confirmed and made valid and official, and declared to have been
done at the times and in the manner required by law, and futher
resolved,
That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the
County Tax Assessor for his re ords and a notation made at
pageZ/ 3S' B of the official minutes book of the City of
Okeechobee directing attention to the content, purpose and intent
of this resolution.
DONE, RESOLVED and made effective at the regular meeting
of the City Coun it of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, held on
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the day of April, 1971.
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City Clerk
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