HomeMy WebLinkAbout581 07-10-1979ORDINANCE NO. 581
AN ORDINANCE DEFERRING APPLICATION OF RECENT
LEGISLATIVE CHANGES AS TO THE APPRAISAL OF
AGRICULTURAL AND TIMBER LAND TO THE 1980 AD
VALOREM TAXES LEVIED BY THE CITY OF EULESS,
TEXAS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFEC-
TIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, THE 66th Legislature of the State of Texas recently
adopted H.B. 1060, Acts 1979, 66th Legislature, Regular Session,
providing for changes in the appraisal of certain land principally
devoted to agricultural and timber purposes, and
WHEREAS, Article 13, Section 1, Subsection (b) of such legisla-
tion authorizes a municipality to defer application of such new
appraisal requirements for initial application to ad valorem taxes
for 1980; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Euless City Council by this
ordinance to apply the statutory exemptions for such land princi-
pally devoted to agricultural and timber use within the corporate
limits of the City of Euless, Texas, to ad valorem taxes for the
year 1979 and defer such new changes for ad valorem taxes assessed
for 1980 and subsequent years.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS:
I.
Under authority of Article 13, Section 1, Subsection (b), of
House Bill No. 1060, Acts 1979, 66th Legislature, Regular Session,
the City Council of the City of Euless, Texas, finds and declares
that it is impossible to implement Articles 1 and 2 of said H.B.
1060, relating to appraisal of agricultural land and relating to
appraisal of timber land, for the taxes to be levied for the year
1979, and hereby prescribes that said Articles 1 and 2 of said
H.B. 1060 shall not apply to ad valorem taxes levied by said City
for the year 1979.
II.
Articles 1 and 2 of H.B. 1060, Acts 1979, 66th Legislature,
Regular Session, shall apply to ad valorem taxes imposed for the
year 1980 and subsequent years.
III.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the
intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sen-
tences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if
any, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance
shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree
of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs amd sections of this ordinance, since the same would have
been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this
ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph or section.
IV.
Emergency Clause. By the affirmative vote of four or more
of its members, The City Council declares that this is an Ordi-
nance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property,
health, and safety, and is an emergency measure within the mean-
ing of Article II, Section 11 of the City Charter; and the
requirement that it be read at two meetings, as specified in
such Section 11, is hereby dispensed with.
V.
Effective Date. This Ordiance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by
the Euless City Charter and the laws of the State of Texas.
PRESENTED AND PASSED ON first and final reading on the 10th
day of July, 1979, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Euless, Texas by a vote of 4 ayes and 0 nays
and 1 abstentions.
ATTEST:
Della Houy, City Sec tary
APPROVED:
Harold Samuels, Mayor
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APPROVED:
M. Robert McFarland, City
Attorney
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