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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 2010.)
ORDINANCE NO. 2010-29
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND
COLLECTION OF AD VALOREM TAXES OF THE CITY
OF. FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS, FOR THE YEAR 2010;
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 60a' day after the date the City receives the certified appraisal roll j
the City Council shall adopt a tax rate for the current tax year; and
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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$.0653 for debt service and a tax rate of
$.5198 to fund maintenance and operation expenditures; and
WHEREAS, by separate motions heretofore adopted by the City Council of the City of
Friendswood, Texas, at a regular meeting of City Council held on this 4th day of October, 2010,
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said City Council has approved separately the tax rate heretofore specified for each of said
components; and
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WHEREAS, all notices and hearings required by law as a prerequisite to the passage,
approval, and adoption of this Ordinance have been timely and property given and held; now,1
therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FRIENDSWOOD, STATE OF TEXAS:
Section 1. The facts and matters set forth in the preamble of this Ordinance are found
to be true and correct and are hereby adopted,ratified, and confirmed.
Section 2. There is hereby levied, for the tax year 2010, to fund the City's fiscal year
2010-2011 municipal budget, an ad valorem tax at the total rate of$.5851 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, $.5198 is levied to fund
maintenance and operation expenditures of the City for the fiscal year 2010-2011. THIS TAX
RATE WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND
OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE.
Section 4. Of the total tax levied in Section 2 hereof, $.0653 is levied for the purpose
of paying the interest on bonds, warrants, certificates of obligation, or other lawfully authorized
evidence of indebtedness issued by the City of Friendswood, Texas, including the various
installments of principal due on the serial bonds, warrants, certificates of obligation, or other
lawfully authorized evidence of indebtedness issued by the City, as such installments shall
respectively mature in the fiscal year 2010-2011.
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Section 5. All ad valorem taxes levied hereby, in the total amount of$.5851 on each
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of assessed valuation, as reflected by Sections 2, 3, and 4 hereof,
shall be due and payable on or before January 31, 2011. All ad valorem taxes due the City of
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Friendswood, Texas, and not paid on or before January 315t 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 Ordinanc
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, o
invalidate this Ordinance as a whole or any part or provision hereof other than the part declared tol
be invalid or unconstitutional; and the City Council of the City of Friendswood, Texas, declares that
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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 4th day of
October,2010.
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avi J. 3. Smith
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Melinda Welsh,TRMC °
City Secretary
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