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ORDINANCE NO. 2332
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING SUBSECTION Car OF SECTION 2.450 OF THE
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PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATIVE TO ASSESSMENT
OF PROPERTY AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
The council of the City of Palo-Alto does ORDAIN as follows:
,SECTION 14 _The Council of the City of Palo Alto does find
and declare:
ih --That tne public--confide~ce and faith--in property taxa
tion and assessment procedures has' been seriously impaired by
recent scandals involving assessors' offices in various parts of
the State other t~an the City of Palo_Alto.
B. That, to remedy this evil, the hegislature of the State
of California during its 196rl'-~pecial session adopted Assembly
Bill 80 for the purpoae,of establishing procedures for the assess
ment of property as nearly consistent throughPut the State as within
its power to do so.
c. That it is · in the best interests of the City of Palo Al to __
to conform to statewide practices with respect to assessment. ·of
property be9inti:in9 with the forthcoming _fitlcal ~year 1967-68.
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D.: The lien date for_fiscalyear 1967-68 is March 6, 1967,
thie date beinq the time w~en the taxable status of property is
fixed according to law.
E. xn order for this ordinance to become operative for ·
fia:cal year 1967..:68 it is necessary·that-it'be·enacted innediately •>
as here'i.n~fter provided ..
S~CltlON 2. That Subsedtion.(a) of &action,2.450 of the
'Palo Alto Municip~l code-'· is -hereby amendie,d ·to read as follows:
"SEC. 2.450 :Ass.£ssM£NT, LEVY AND coL~c'i'·xoN oF
PROPERTY-TAXES_. ,, , __ :_;
a. _ Th~-proviai.o~s of. ri'ivi,sion_ I ,.:_>f ·the RE!venu~, and
'i'exa_tion· COde of the state-.• of _ calitorni.a telatinq
-to . the assessiilent, -ievy and collectit)n ·.of property
taxes as' amended 'by toe ,'state tegisl•ture'' from
· ··time to 'time is . herel)y adopted ·as tlie procedure
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for the assessment, levy and collection of City of
Palo Alto property taxes except for the provisions
of Chapter 3, Part 7, of Division I of said Code,
providing for the payment of delinquent taxes in
installments. For the purpose of property taxation
by the City of Palo Alto, the City Assessor shall
assess all property subject to general property
taxation at twenty-five percent (25•) of its-full
cash value. In the event a conflict exists between
th~ provisions of said Revenue and Tuation Cade and
the provisions of thi's Administrative Code the pro~
·visions of this Code shall prevail." ·
SECTION ·3. Because of the facts set forth in Section l.
·· ···· hereof',-and in order to protect-; the public· safety,· health
and welfare, the Council doe$ declare that this is an em
ergency ordinance.which shall take effect immediately upon
its passage.
This ordinance was introduced at a regular meetfng of
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the Council of the city or· Palo Alto on Monday, F~bruary 6 ,
1967r and was passea by a .four-fifths vote of all the councilmen
present, at the meeting as follows~
,AYES: Arnold, Comstock, Cooley, Dias, Pearson, Rohrs, Sher
Worthington
NOES ; Di:!bs, f' l i.nt
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ABSENT: Bea hrs, Rus, Woodward
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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