Loading...
0193 (Taxes)0 rd na11C.c, c AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAX13 FORTiiV 1R THE CITY OF.OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OKEECi.C:.: FLORIDA SECTION 2- the City of Okeechobee, Florida, hereby levies a tax of Twoi,�. „i and. crsonal property`v: and nine (209) mills on each dollar val uation of real p 'the corporate limits of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, for the year 1935, c;. `taxes shall be assessed and collected in the manner provided by law, PROVIDED EVER, that no taxes shay_ be assessed against homesteads having a valuations: less, homesteads having a valuation Five .Thousand 05,000.00) Dollars `and , 'a more thani5,000.00 shall not be taxed on the first $5,000.00, as herein bcfoax except as provided in Section 2 of this Ordinance. 1provided, SECTION,2+ That nineteen (19) mills of such tax, shall bo used for general City .popes ttnd .shrill b(i,t.ssessed for the `general of ',said City. That ton ,(10) mills such tax' "shall be> assessed for the payment and satisfied of that certain juo.. obtatnod by'`` Yeomans Mutual Life Ins urance Company, against the City of 0keecl 3orida, said j udemont 'issued out of tho U. S. District Court of the Souther.. hat•fifteen (15) mills of such tax shall be used for the payment of the balance due 'N 04 thct certain judgement of the Pauly Jail Building Company, a corporation, which lid' judgement is recorded in the mffice of the clerk of Circuit Court of Okeechobee 1 inty,.Florida; that five (5) mills of such tax shall be used to app y on that rtain obtained, and owned, by Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Company, in the Circuit wsixty .,Maurt of Okeechobee County, Florida; that one hundred/(160) mills of such tax shall, ansessed in compliance with that certain Court Order signed by Hon. John W. ollund, Judge of the U. S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, in that trtain wherein E. T. McGaulley is Plaintiff and the City of Okeechobee, a municipals !'arporation, is Defendant; said levy to apply on that certain.jedgemont obtained by osaid E. T. McGaulley against the said City of Okeechobee, Florida, and such levy f'one hundred sixty (160) mills shall be assessed against all homestead property, liegardless of value, within the City of Okeechobee, Florida. i SE TION 3. E�. It shall be the duty of the Tax Collector and City Clerk to divide the proceeds reeeived from said tax as aforesaid into the funds sot out in the proceed, king section and keep full and correct =count of same as they may be directed by the City Council. SECTION. A11 Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith be, and the :me are, hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage by the :city Council and approval by the Mayor. ATTEST: City Clerk CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA BY President, City Counc The foregoing Ordinance is hereby approved by me this ovombor, A. D. 1935. day of