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CITY OF LYNWOOD
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
RESOLUTION NO. 96-151
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNWOOD EXTENDING A TEMPORARY EXEMPTION
' FROM THE WATER USERS TAX IMPOSED UNDER
SUBSECTION 6 -5.9 OF SECTION 6 -5 OF THE
LYNWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE
A. Subsection 6 -5.9 of Section 6 -5 of the Lynwood
Municipal Code authorizes the imposition of a tax, not to exceed
ten percent (10 %), upon charges made for water that is delivered
through mains or pipes.
B. Subsection 6- 5.4(b) of section 6 -5 of the Lynwood
Municipal Code authorizes the City Council, by order or resolution,
to establish one or more classes of persons, or one or more classes
of utility service, that are exempt, in whole or in part, from
payment of the tax imposed by Section 6 -5.
C. The City Council has found and determined that
customers of water service provided by Park Water Company in
Lynwood pay significantly higher water rates than do the customers
of water service provided by the Lynwood Water Department. The
City of Lynwood *:as no regulatory authority with regard to the
rates charged by Park Water Company to its customers, because those
rates are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.
D. Resolution #96 -90 was approved to extend a pilot
program for temporary exemption for utility users tax for Lynwood
Park Water customers thru September 30, 1996.
E. In adopting this Resolution, the City Council
desires to alleviate economic hardship and to provide financial
relief to those property owners in the city who are customers of
Park Water Company by extending the temporary exemption from
payment of the users tax that would otherwise be applicable to
charges for water purchased from Park Water Company, after
September 30, 1996.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD
HEREBY FINDS, DETERMINES, ORDERS AND RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS;
S ection 1. Customers purchasing water from the Park
Water Company in the City are, as a class, exempted from further
payment of the utility users tax that is authorized to be imposed
by Subsection 6 -5.9 of Section 6 -5 of the Lynwood Municipal Code.
Section 2. The Tax Administrator is directed to
notify Park Water Company that this exemption has been established
by the City Council and to provide such additional information as
may be required to enable Park Water Company to remove all exempt
customers from its utility users tax billing procedures.
-*§S. 4U._;t� The exemption provided for in Section 1
will remain Sys fuj force and effect for the period September 30,
1996 until Sept 30, 97. The City Manager is directed to monitor all
applications for water rate increases filed by Park Water Company
with the California Public Utilities Commission and to inform the
City Council of those proposed increases in order that the City
Council may determine in a timely manner whether to oppose them.
Section 4._ The City Clerk is directed to certify to
the passage and adoption of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of
September 1996.
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ATTEST:
Ak;jREA 1.. HOOPER, CI Y CLERK
A?PROVEr AS 'iJ
CITY ATTORNEY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
NOES:
do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by
the City Council of the City of Lynwood at a regular meeting held on the
17th day of September, 1996.
AYES: COUNCILMEMBER BYRD, HEINE, HENNING, RICHARDS
City Clerk, City of Lynwood
I, the undersigned City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and
Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Resolution No. 96 -151
on file in my office and that said resolution was adopted on the date and
by the vote therein stated.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
Faust n ,onzaNi'
City - Man ,P
Alfr#tta F. Earnest
Director of Finance
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood,
NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER REA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
Dated this 17th day of September, 1996.
Cit,� Clerk ,
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