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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1091 ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION [1 OF AN ANNUAL, DIRECT, SrEC1AL AD VALOREM TAX ON ALL PROPERTY Rom,, RERSONAL AND MIXED, SITUATED IN THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE CITY CF FORT WORTH, AND ALL rERSONAL PROPERTY OWNED IN SAID CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS ON THE 1st DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1925 EXCEPT SUCH PROPERTY AS MAY BE EXEMPT FROM TAXA`1'ION BY THE. CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE STATE: OF TEXAS. E'--BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF C►FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION I. There is hereby levied and shall be co:'_leeted, as provided by law, an annual, direct, special ad valorem tax for the year 1925 for the support and maintenance of a free public library in the City of Fort worth of three cents on every $100.00 valuation on all property, real, personal and mixed, situated in, and all personal property owned in the City of Fort a;orth, on the 1st day of January, e. D. 1925, liable under the law to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the constitution and laws of the State of Texas. SECTION II. There is also hereby levied and there shall be col- lected, as provided by law, an annual, direct, special ad valorem tax for the year 1925 for the use and benefit ofthe Park Fund of the City of Fort worth, nine cents on every $100.00 valuation, on all property, real, personal and mixed situated in and all personal property owned in the City of Port Worth on the 1st day of January, 1925, liable under the laws to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas, which levy in the aggregate in the sum of nine cents, as aforesaid, shall be both for park maintenance, and for the benefit of all notes issued by the Park Department which are now outstanding 'and unpaid, which notes are as fol- lows: Park Improvement Notes, dated December 17, 1921, issued /to J. F. 17ills, as stated in Ordinance Ro. 801, for the con- struction and building of a concrete swimming pool in Forrest Park, the original amount of this series of notes was 435,000.00 part of which indebtedness has been paid. A series of notes issued to F. B. Daggett, for the pur- phase of certain lands for park purposes as recited in Ordi- nance Vo. 903, the original amount of said series of notes was $34,248.00, part of which notes have been paid. A series of notes issued to 17est Texas Construction Com- pany, for the improvement of Forrest ?ark Boulevard, as recited in Ordinance No. 873, said ordinance being passed by the board of commissioners October 31, 1922, part of which notes have been paid. �s.rie. L4aH) A series of notes issued to the blest Texas Construction Company for the improvement of Forrest Park as recited in or- dinance No. 1036, passed November 18th, 1924. A series of notes issued to west Texas Construction Company for the improvement of Forrest Park as recited in ordinance No. 1055, said ordinance being passed by the Board of Commissioners February 21, 1925. SECTION III. There is also hereby levied and there shall be collected as provided by law, an annual, direct, special ad valorem tax for the year 1925, for the use and benefi of the Recre- ation Fund of the City of Fort Worth, of two cents, on every $100.00 valuation on all property, real, personal and mixed, situated in, and all personal property owned in the City of Fort +orth on the lst day of January, A. D. 1925, lia- ble under the law to taxation, and not exempt therefrom by the constitution and laws of the State of Texas, which levy in the aggregate sum of two cents, as aforesaid, shall be both for the maintenance of the recreation department and for the ben- ef-it of unpaid and outstanding recreation funding warrants and notes. The above described recreation funding warrants were dated May 15, 1923, as recited in Ordinance No. 923, passed by the Board of Commissioners, May 22, 1923. Part of these warrants have been paid. A series of $7,000900 worth of recreation notes, as recited 0 in Ordinance No. 976, part of which notes have been paid. SECTION 1V. There is also hereby levied and there shall be col- lected,as provided by law, an annual, direct, special ad va- lorem tax for the year 1925 for general and all such other purposes (besides those hereinbefore enumbrated) as are author- ized by law and by the charter of the City of Fort Worth, of 140 cents on every $100.00 valuation on all property, real, personal and mixed situated in and all personal property owned in the said City of Fort worth on the 1st day of Jmzuary, A. D. 1925 liable under the law to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the constitution or laws of the State of Texas, which levy in the aggregate sum of 140 cents, as aforesaid, shall include and be used for all purposes for which said funds may be used under the laws and constitution of the State of Texas, and for the interest and sinking fund upon all outsten ding and unpaid notes and existing bonded indebtedness of the said City of vort Worth. SECTION V. That these special tax levies which are hereinbefore made to provide for the payment of interest and to create a sinking fund or to discharge and pay principal and interest on any obligation due or owing by the said City of Fort north, are not to be taken as in addition to levies for the same pur- poses made in the respective ordinances authorizing and creat- ing such obligations, but the levies hereinbefore made are made pursuant to and for the purpose of carrying out and com- plying with the provisions of said prior ordinances, and all ad valorem taxes herein are levied upon all taxable property, real, personal and mixed, situated in and all personal property owned in the City of Yort Worth, as assessed, valued and de- scribed in the assessment tax roll and tax books of the said City of Fort worth for the year 1925, (and any supplemental assessment thereof) as the same have been or shall be presented to the City Council of the City of Fort �qorth by the Assessor and Collector of taxes of the said City of Fort worth. SECTION VI. That the taxes herein levied and authorized and re- quired to be collected, shall be and become due and payable on October 1, 1925, but the same shall hot be construed to be delinquent, so as to incur penalty thereon until February 1, 1926, on which date and thereafter in fault in payment.;, said penalty, as hereinafter set out shall accrue and be at- tached thereto, a nd become a part of the total amount to be paid by defaulting and delinquent tax payers. SECT10h VII. That the 31st day of January, A. D. 1926, is hereby fixed as the final day upon which day taxes shall be paid, the City of Fort Worth without the imposition of penalties. SFCTiON VIII. That on and after February 1, 1926, all such taxes as hereinbefore levied as remain unpaid, as required herein to be paid on or before Jan nary 31, 1926, shall be deemed delin- quent and there shall be added thereto a penalty of one percent per month or part of month upon the full amount of such unpaid taxes, for the time the same shall remain unpaid, said penalty 4X one percent per month ahall be added to "M taxes Upon the 1st day of February, 1926, and upon the first day of each and every month thereafter until 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 publication of delinquent tax lists, or if suit is brought to recover such taxes and penalties the delinquent tax payers 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 tax payers, as prescribed by law, and said taxes with penalties and costs shall be and become and are hereby made a paramount lien to all other liens whatsoever on the property on which said taxes are levied. SECTION IX. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in Pall force and effect from and after the date of its passage and publication,as required by the Charter of the Uity of Fort North. Mayor. Attested: City Secretary and Treasurer. Approved as to form: O City Attorney. ORDINANCE s(do-11 Title 11 L el Filed _ day cf- - - 192- City Secretary