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ORDINANCE tQO. 1065
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF LYiVWOOD AMENDING SECTION
17-27(d) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
LYIQWOOD RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM
BUSINESS LICENSE FEES
The City Council of the City of Lynwood hereby does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 17-27(cl) of the Code of the City of
Lynwood hereby is amended to read as follows:
(d) Ckiaritable Organizations. The city council may,
upon a finding that a particular organization is
a bona fide religious, charitable, fraternal, ed-
ucational, military, veteran or municipal organi-
zation or association contributions to which would
be tax deductible, waive the requirement of a
license £or the purpose of conducting or staging
any enterprise where the receipts derived from the
enterprise are to be used wholly for the benefit
of the organization or for charitable purposes and
not for the purpose of any private gain of any in-
dividual or individuals. In the event any organi-
zation of the type referred to herein merely spon-
sors such an enterprise and receives only a percent-
age of the receipts thereof, then the person con-
ducting the enterprise on behalf of such organiza-
tion shall pay such percentage of the otherwise
applicable license fee prescribed in this article
as is equal to the percentage of receipts payable
by him for conducting the enterprise. Notwith-
standing any of the foregoing, the city council
shall not waive the requirements of a license for
any organization proposing to engage in solicita-
tion for a period of time longer than ~_ days.
SECTION 2. Severability. If any section, subsection,
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this
Ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or place,
is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by
the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining por-
tions of this Ordinance or its application to other persons
or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have adopted this Ordinance, and each section, subsection,
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-
sections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions, or the application thereof to any person or place,
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and
directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance and to
cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a
newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and cir-
culated in the City of Lynwood.
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First read at a regular
said City held on the 3rd
finally ordered published at
Council held on the 17 day
meeting of the City Council of
day of April 1979 and
a regular~ing of said
of April 1979,
AYES: COUNCILMEN BYORK, GREETd, HIGGiNS, ROGIE, MORRIS,
NOES: COUNCILMEN NONE.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN NONE,
ATTEST:
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City Clerk, City of -yn'ood
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Mayor, City of `Lynwood
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STATE OF CALIFORiVIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ~ ss.
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood,
do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy
of Ordinance No. 1065 adopted b
City of Lynwood, and that same was passedtonCthecdatefandeby
the vote therein stated.
Dated this 18th day of April
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~' LAURENE COFFEY~7 /;/~-
City Clerk, City of Lyri%•~ood
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