HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1964 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION
OF AN ANNUAL DIRECT AD VALOREM TAX ON ALL PRUPEMY,
BBAL, PERSONAL AND JMIX3D, SITUATED WIT= THE TIM-
RITORIAL LnMS OF THE OITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS,
AND ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY OWNED IN SAID CITY OF
FORT tiAmTL TTXAS, ON THE rnwT DAY OF JANUARY,
A. D. 19 , MMUT SUCH PROFERTY AS MAY 1Z =EM
FROM TAXATION BY THE CONSTITUTION AND LAMS OF TEM
STATE OF TMUS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WOFCk'8. TEXAS:
SECTION I.
There is hereby levied and shall be collected, tae provided by law,
an annual direct special ad valorem tax for the year 1931 for the support
and maintenance of a free Public Library In the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
of three cents (3$) on every One hundred Dollar (4100.00) valuation on all
property, real, personal and mixed, situated in and all personal property
owned in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, on the first day of January, A. D.
1939, liable under the law to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the Con-
stitution and laws of the State of Texas.
SECTION II.
There is also hereby levied and there shall be collected, as provided
by law, an annual direct special ad valorem tax for the year 1939, for the
use and benefit of the Perk Fund of the City of Fort worth, Texas, of nine
cents (9¢) on every one Hundred Dollar (#100.00) valuation on all property,
real, personal and mixed, situated in and all personal property owned in the
City of Fort Worth, Texas, on the first day of January. A. D. 1931, liable
under the law to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the Constitution and
laws of the State of Turas, which levy, in the aggregate sum of nine cents
(9¢), as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby apportioned:
Yor Park operation, maintenance, upkeep and to pay ma-
turities and interest on park notes and warrants, 9 cents.
The Commissioner of Accounts shall transfer from current
tax Gollsotions the sum of $60983.93 to pay maturities
and interest on notes and warrants. After this amount
has been transferred to Park Interest and Sinking Fund,
the remaining current tax collections will revert to the
Park General Fund, as well as all delinquent taxes ool-
leoted for prior years.
SECTION III.
Thera is also hereby levied and there shall be collected, as pro-
vided by law, an annual direct special ad valorem tax for the year 1937, for
the use and benefit of the Recreation Fund of the Oity of Fort worth, Texas,
of two *onto (af) on every One Hundred Dollar ($100.00) valuation on all
property, real, personal and mixed, situated in and all personal property
owned in the 01ty of Fort Worth, Texas, on the first day of January, d. D.
1987, liable under the law to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the Con-
stitution and laws of the state of Texas, which levy, in the aggregate sum
of two vents (2¢)8 as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby apportioned:
For Recreation operation, maintenance, upkeep and to pay
maturities and interest on Recreation notes and warrants,
E cents.
The Commissioner of Accounts shall transfer from current
tax collections the sum of *9,8168.50 to pay maturities,
Interest and set up a Sinking Fund on notes and warrants.
After this amount has been transferred to Recreation In-
terest and Sinking Fund, the remaining current tax oolleo-
tions will revert to the Recreation General Bund, as well
as all delinquent taxes collected for prior years.
SECTION I9.
That there is also hereby levied and there shall be collected, as
provided by law, an annual direct special ad valorem tax for the year 1937,
for General Fund operations and for servicing of General Fund obligations
outstanding of the said City of Fort Worth, of 1.81 dollars on every One
Hundred Dollar ($100.00) valuation on all property, real, personal and mixed,
situated in and all personal property owned in the City of Bort Worth, Texas,
on the first day of Tanuary, L. D. 1939, liable under the law to taxation
and not exempt therefrom by the Gonatitution and laws of the State of Texas.
The Commisaioner of-Acoounts shall pay each week to the Interest and Sinking
Bund forty-five per cent (45%) of the current taxes collected for General
]Fund operations and debt service until 1819,073.50 has been paid to the In-
terest and Sinking Yund, after which all of said collections will remain in
the general Bund. In this way the General Bund will absorb any Interest and
Sinking Band delinquencies and In consideration of which will reaeive all
delinquent tax sollections the entire year. The servicing of General Fund
obligations outstanding shall be and is hereby apportioned for the use and
benefit of the said several series of bonds of the City of Bort Worth, Texas,
as follows, respectively:
ONE LM�ION BOND NUMMUS REVEMM Lm
1 Refunding 1-600 4,822.25 net $.0089
2 Refunding 1-149 4,720.00 .0088
36 Stora Sower 1-100 6,300.00 .0039
37 General Funding 1-200 10,500.00 .0065
38 Street Improvement 1- 90 40200.00 .0085
39 Light Extensions 1. 50 8,140.00 .0033
-- Municipals 1-1000 57,300.00 .0353
(41 Street Improvement 1.381 25,745.00 .0159
(41 Street Improvement 388-800 80,950.00 .0129
(42 Light Extensions 1-119 7,735.00 .0047
(42 Light Extensions 120-250 6,550.00 .0040
(48 Fire Improvement 1- 96 6,925.00 .0043
(43 Fire Improvment 97-200 5,200.00 .0038
44 Amicipal.e 1-1850 61,900.00 .0381
46 Street Improvement 1-500 31,955.00 .0197
47 Incinerators 1- 71 3,857.50 .0024
48 Parke 1-100 5,885.00 .0035
49 Recreation 1-100 5,825.00 .0035
50 City-County Hospital 1- 18 1,472.50 .0010
46 Street Improvement 501-1000 98,870.00 .0199
46 Parks 101-200 5,870.00 .0039
49 Recreation 101-170 4,610.00 1002;
46 Street Improvement 1001-1600 37,250.00 .0229
48 Parka 201-500 17,098.50 .0105
(46 Street Improvement 1601-1698 -- ---
(46 Street Improveeuast 1693-2013 30,445.00 .0187
(46 Street Improymant 8014-2200 7,480.00 .0046
52 Street Improvement 1-700 40,775.00 .0851
55 Lake Worth Bridge 1-150 8,737.50 .0054
58 Street Improvement 701-1500 50,580.00 .031E
55 Lake Worth Bridge 151-850 6,388.50 .0038
51 Arterial Thoroughfares 1-£50 16,043.75 .0099
56 Street Improvement 1-150 9,626.85 .0059
57 Fire Protection 1-250 16,045.75 .0099
56 Airport 1-150 9,626.25 .0059
51 Arterial Thoroughfares 251-550 180690.00 .0116
56 Street Improvement 151.800 85,830.00 .0159
57 Fire Protection 251-500 15,575.00 .0095
58 Airport 153-400 15,575.00 .0095
56 Street Tmproveent 801-1400 37,650.00 .0834
58 Airport 401-500 69875.00 .0036
56 Street Improvement 1401-1455 3,161.25 .0080
51 Arterial Thoroughfares 551-600 8,375.00 .0014
59 Refunding 1-778 35,010.00 .0116
51 Arterial Thoroughfares 601-800 7,000.00 .0043
56 Street lnporovemeut 1456-1575 3,900.00 .0024
61 Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1- 3 885.00 .0005
62 Pleas. Ods., Pka. & Plgds. 1-688 24,088.50 .0148
(64 Pleas. GCs., Pks. & Plgds. 1-189 11,527.50 .0071
(64 Pleas. Gds., Pke. & Plgds. 190-250 1,982.50 .0012
56 Street Improvement 1576-1915 09900.00 .00%
(136 Airport Mope Warrants 1- 53 9,435.00 .0058
(936 Airport Imp. Warrants 54- 96 1,720.00 .0010
» Fort Worth Stk. Ids. Note 1 7,700.00 .0048
•36 Airport Imp. Warrants 97-125 5,875.00 .0036
Due Federal Government 1 6.350.00 .00099
Total General Fund Debt $819,073.50 4.5041
SECTION V.
That these special tax levies, which are hereinbefore mads, to pro-
vide for the payment of interest and to create a sinking Hind or to discharge
and pay principal and interest on any obligations due or owing by the City
of Fort Worth, Tease, are not to be taken as in addition to levies for the
same purpose in the respootive ordinances authorizing and creating such ob-
ligations, bat the levies hereinbefore made are made pursuant to and for the
purpose of carrying out and complying with the provisions of said prior ordi-
nances, and ad valorem taxes herein are levied upon all taxable property,
real, personal and mixed, situated in and all personal ptroperty owned in the
City of Fort worth, Texas, as assessed, valued and described in tris assess-
ment tax rolls and the tax books of the City of Fort worth, Texas, for the
year 1937, and any supplowntal assessments thereof, as the some have boon or
shall be presented to the City Council of the City of Fart Worth, Texas, by
the.Assessor and Collector of Taxes of said City of Fort Worth, Texas.
SECTION VI.
That the taxes herein levied and authorized and required to be ool-
looted shall be and become flue and payable in two oqual installments. The
first installment, which amount shall be fifty per cent (50%) of the total
sum of the taxes due and payable for the current year, shall be due and pay-
able on the first day of October, A. D. 1937, and the second iuustallment,
which amount shall be the reeaining fifty per cent (50A) of the total sum
due and payable in taxes for the Current year, shall beoeme due and payable
on the first day of April, A. D. 1938.
SECTION VII.
The first installment of taxes required to be paid by virtue of
this ordinance for the current year shall become delinquent on the first day
of December, A. D. 1937, and the second installment of taxes required to be
paid by virtue of this ordinance for the current year shall became delinquent
on the first day of 7tiuuo, A. D. 1938.
SECTION VIII.
Should any taxpayer permit his taxes to become delinquent, that is
to say, should fail or refuse to pay the first installment, said installment
being fifty per oent (50%) of the total amount of taxes due for the current
year, before the first day of December, A. D. 1937, as above specified, then
and in that event, the second installment shall also immediately become due
and delinquent and a penalty shall attach to the payment of such taxes at
Us rate of one per cent (lac) per month, or fraction thereof, for each month
thereafter; and should any taxpayer pay the first installment of his taxes
as hereinabove provided, but should permit the second installment of his taxes
to become delinquent, that is to say, should fail or refuse to pay said second
installment before the first day of Tune, A. D• 1938, as above specified, then
the penalty shall attach to the payment of the second installment at the rate
of one per cent (1%) per month, or fraotion thereof, on each month thereafter.
SECTION I%.
That said penalty of one per cent (1%) per month shall be added to
said taxes in the event the payment thereof should become delinquent as above
set forth and said penalty shall attach on the first day of each month there-
after, until the taxes shall have been paid, which penalty shall be and become
a part of said taxes and be payable as such; and provided further that in the
event of the publication of the delinquent tax lists, or if suit is brought to
recover such taxes and penalties and the delinquent taxpayer shall be subject
to the payment of said taxes, penalties and costs, and the same shall be and
become a lien upon the property of such taxpayer, as prescribed by the Charter
of the City of Bort Worth, Texas, and the lame of the State of Texas, the said
taxes with penalties and costs shall be and bsoome and they are hereby made a
paramount lien to all other Ilona whatsoever on the property on which said
taxes are levied.
S=IOH X.
Should any parts portion, section or part of a section of this ordi-
nance be declared invalid or inoperative or Told for any reason by a court of
competent ,jurisdiction, such decision, opinion or judgment shall in no way
affect the remaining portions, parts, sections or parts of sections of this
ordinance, which provision shall be, remain and continue to be in fall force
and effect.
8=101 XI•
That this ordinanoe shall take offset and be in full force and ef-
fect frasl and after the date of its passggo as provided by law.
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ATr2ST:
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APPROVED AS TO FORD AND L&GALIT Y:
MY Attorney
SU,BYQENA I?uCes Tecum D,C.No.120
TO THE SHERIFF OR ANY CONSTABLE OF TARRANT COUNTY, GREETING:
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED, That you summon T.a_Al"moc C t..
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to be and appear before theDistrict Court to be holden within and for the County
of Tarrant, at the Court House thereof, in the City of Fort Worth, on
day_of_April Unatsn-t6�19-39,
then and there to testify in behalf of the p�rntlft
in a certain suit now pending in said eourl;wherein JOM K_Ke db_ e% al
and Board Of Xtalisati=y et Al Defendantlr
and that bJ bfto diligently and carefully search for, examine, inquire for, and bring
with—big— —and produce, at the time and place aforesaid
1. Copy of order resolution or ordinance of City Council appointing
Board of B�ization for U37,and any order appointing E.B.Booper
as a member thereof and any order fixing the compensation of the members
of said Board. 2. Any record showing certification of 1937 assessment
roll to the City Council or the Board of Equalization and the action of
the CourAil thereon. 3. Any record resolution and ordinance or mInuUmn— --e-
fixing percentage applied for assessments for 1937 on property in said
City. u. Ordinance fixing levy for 1937 on property in City of TtAorth. orm
Any minutes with respeot to the above matter named.
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to be inspected by said Court; and that he continue his attendance from
day to day, and from term to term,until discharged by the Court.
HEREIN FAIL NOT, But have you then and there, before said Court this Writ,with
your return thereon, showing how you have executed the same.
WITNESS: W.F.Alexander Clerk of the District Court of Tarrant County,Texas.
Issued under` ny hand, at office in Fort Worth, Texas, this 27th day
of April A. D. 19 35
R.E.Alexander. Clerk,District Court,
B Deputy. Tarrant County, Texas.
OFFICER'S RETURN
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. B31JG�.fa_ Z�fil_ IttAIfJ( lila,.9'_A.Deputy.
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