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(Title: An ordinance providing for the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes of the City of
Friendswood,Texas, for the year 2009.)
ORDINANCE NO. 2009-23
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF
AD VALOREM TAXES OF THE CITY OF FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS,
FOR THE YEAR 2009; PROVIDING THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH
TAXES SHALL BE DUE AND PAYABLE; PROVIDING FOR PENALTY
AND INTEREST ON ALL TAXES NOT TIMELY PAID; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH.
WHEREAS, Section 26.05 of the Texas Property Tax Code provides that before the
latter of September 30th or the 60°i day after the date the City receives the certified appraisal roll
the City Council shall adopt a tax rate for the current tax year; and
WHEREAS, such Section further provides that where the tax rate consists of two
components (one which will impose the amount of taxes needed to pay the City's debt service
and the other which will impose the amount of taxes needed to fund maintenance and operation
expenditures for the next year), each of such two components must be approved separately; and
WHEREAS, the proposed tax rate for the current tax year of the City of Friendswood,
Texas, consists of two such components, a tax rate of$.0800 for debt service and a tax rate of
$.4997 to fund maintenance and operation expenditures; and
WHEREAS, by separate motions heretofore adopted by the City Council of the City of
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Friendswood, Texas, at a regular meeting of City Council held on this 28th day of September,
2009, said City Council has approved separately the tax rate heretofore specified for each of said
components; and
WHEREAS, all notices and hearings required by law as a prerequisite to the passagi,
approval, and adoption of this Ordinance have been timely and property given and held; now,
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therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FRIENDSWOOD, STATE OF TEXAS:
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Section 1. The facts and matters set forth in the preamble of this Ordinance are found
to be true and correct and are hereby adopted,ratified, and confirmed.
Section 2. There is hereby levied, for the tax year 2009, to fund the City's fiscal year
2009-2010 municipal budget, an ad valorem tax at the total rate of$.5797 on each One Hundred
Dollars ($100) of assessed valuation on all property, real, personal, and mixed, within the
corporate limits of the City, upon which an ad valorem tax is authorized by law to be levied by
the City of Friendswood, Texas. All such taxes shall be assessed and collected in current money
of the United States of America.
Section 3. Of the total tax levied in Section 2 hereof, $.4997 is levied to fun
maintenance and operation expenditures of the City for the fiscal year 2009-2010. THIS T
RATE WILL RAISE FEWER TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS
THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE. THE TAX RATE WILL BE 0.490) LESS THAN
THE EFFECTIVE TAX RATE AND WILL LOWER TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE
AND OPERATIONS ON A$100,000 HOME BY APPROXIMATELY$29.00. !
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Section 4. Of the total tax levied in Section 2 hereof, $.0800 is levied for the purpose
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of paying the interest on bonds, warrants, certificates of obligation, or other lawfully authorizes
evidence of indebtedness issued by the City of Friendswood, Texas, including the various
installments of principal due on the serial bonds, warrants, certificates of obligation, or othir
lawfully authorized evidence of indebtedness issued by the City, as such installments shall
respectively mature in the fiscal year 2009-2010. !I
Section 5. All ad valorem taxes levied hereby, in the total amount of$.5797 on each
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of assessed valuation, as reflected by Sections 2, 3, and 4 hereof,
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shall be due and payable on or before January 31, 2010. All ad valorem taxes due the City of
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Friendswood, Texas, and not paid on or before January 315` following the year for which they
were levied, shall bear penalty and interest as prescribed in the Texas Tax Code.
Section 6. In the event any clause,phrase,provision, sentence, or part of this Ordinance
or the application of the same to any person or circumstance shall for any reason be adjudged
invalid or held unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect, impair, or
invalidate this Ordinance as a whole or any part or provision hereof other than the part declared to
be invalid or unconstitutional; and the City Council of the City of Friendswood,Texas, declares that
it would have passed each and every part of the same notwithstanding the omission of any such part
thus declared to be invalid or unconstitutional,whether there be one or more parts.
Section 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinance in conflict herewith are, to the
extent of such conflict,hereby repealed.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED on first and final reading this 5t" day of
October,2009.
David J. H. Smith
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Deloris McKenzie, TRMt �
City Secretary
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