HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 430 Ordinance No. 430
An ordinance providing for the levy and cellectiin of an
annual,direet,ad valorem t?x on all property, real, personal and mixed,
situated **thin the territorial limits of the City of Pert Worth,and all
personal property owned in said City of Fort Worth,exeept such property as
may be exempt from taxation, by law, and granting certain rebates for the
payment of taxes prior to the maturity theref.
BE IT 0_RDAINED BY THE BOARD OF CO1MISSION3mRS OF THE CIT' ' OF
FORT WORTH, T'ITMS:
Section 1; That there is hereby levied and shall be collected
as provided by law an annual, diredt,opecial ad valorem tax for the year
1914, for the Improvement of Str"ta- and thoroughfares of the Cit"f- Fort
Worth of 10 cants on every 4100.00 valuatiin on all property, real, person&
and mixed situated in'
all personal property .owned fn�ths said City of
Fort Worth, on the first day of January A D 1914, liable under the law to
taxation and not exempt therefrom by the constitution or laws of the State
of Texas.
Section 2; Upon the requisition of the Board of School TrusteaS
of the independent school district of the City of Fort Worth,and in conform-
itAwith said Baord's certificate to that effect, that bboro is also hereby
levied and there shall be collected as provided by law an annual, direct
special ad valorem tax for the year 1914, for public school pwrposes, of 45
cents on every $100.00 valuation on all property real, personal and mixed
et4ihated in, and all personal property owned in, the City of Fort Worth,on
the first day of January A D 1914, liable under the law to taxation and not
exempt therefrom by the constitution or laws of the State of Texas.
Section 3; 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 1914, for the support and maintenance of a free public library
in the City of Fort Worth of two cents on every $100.00 valuation an all
property, real, personal and mixed, situated in, and all personal propi!rV
owned in the City of Fort Worth, on the first day of January A D 1914,li"
able under the law to taxation and not exempt therefrom by the constitution
or laws of the State of Texas.
Section 4; That there is alsyy hereby levied and there shall
be collected as provided by law an annual Airect, special ad valorem tax
for the year 1914, for the use and benefit of the park fund of the City of
Fort Worth, of 10 cents on every #100.00 valuation on all property, real
personal and mixed, situated in,and all personll property owned in the City
of Fort Worth,on the first day of January A D 1914, liable under the law to
taxation and not exempt therefrom by the constitution or laws of the State
of Texas.
Section 5; That there is also hereby levied, Wouishall be
collected, as provided by law, an annual, direct, specialad valorem tax for
the year 1914, for interest and sinking fund upon the existing bonded indebX-
edness of the said City of Fort Worth of 59 cents on every ; 100.00 valua,r
tion on all property real and personal and mixed, situated in, and all per°-
senalproperty owned in the City of -Fort Worth, on the first day of January
ASD 1914, liable under the law to taxation and not exempt themefrom by the
constitution or laws of the State of Texas, which levy in the aggregat um
of 59 cents as aforesaid shall be and Is hereby apportioned 2'er the use an8
benefit of the said several series of the City of Fort Worth as follows re-
spectively;
DESCRIPTION DATE OF ISSUE ORIGINAL A21[OUNT MOUNT `� LEVY
Funding, 1-1-1890 20)0 .00 113000.00 2.19
Waterworks, 5-1-1890 100000.00 42000,00 .81
Sewers, 5-1-1890 100000,00 44000.00 .63
St.Sewera &bldg, 3-1-1891 300000,00 153000,00 2.61
Funding etc 1-1-1892 175000.00 155000.00 2.12
Waterworks mtg 2-1-1892 650000.00 612000.000 8.16
Refunding 7-1-1901 607000.00 487000.00 5.02
„ 7-1-1901 149000.00 136000,00 1.31
Street ippt. 7-1-1908 100000.00 100000.00 1,00
N F W Impt 5-1-1909 100000.00 100000,00 1.00
Fire halls, 9-1-1909 65000.00 65000.00 .65
Street impt. 9-1-1909 135000.00 135000.00 1.40
Electric 1ps., do 25000.00 25000.00 .26
Sewers, do 150000.00 150000,00 1.52
Waterworks, 9-1-1909 275000.00 275000.00 2.80
N F W Impt, 2-146905 100000.00 100000.00 .92
Improvement, 4-13-1910 100000.00 100p00.00 1.02
Fire halls, 4-1-1911 95000.00 95000.00 1.06
Police station, do 35000.00 35000.00 .39
Storm sewer, do 120000.00° 120000.00 1.32
Electric lts, do 50000.00 50000.00 .56
Street impt, do 165P00.00 165000.00 1.83
Warehouse, do 15,000.00 15000.00 .17
Hospital, do 20Q00.00 20000.00 .22
W W Funding, do 150000.00 150000.00 1.66
W W Ext 4e 13590Q0.00 1350000;00 15.00
Reservoir, 5-1-1913 300000.00 300000.00 3.3
59.00
Section 6; That there is also hereby levied and there shall be
collectedgi as provided by law, ah annual, direct, special al valorem tax
for the year 1914, for the purpose of discharging and paying off certiLin
debts and obi9gations of the City of Fort Worth,to the General Construetioa
Company and others, for paving, sewerage and other works in connection WAb
with the streets of the City of Fort Worth, as provided for in Ordinance
380 duly passe*nd adopted by the board of Commissioners of the City of
Fort Worth at a. regular session of said Boated on the 10th day of June A D
1913, of 21 cents on every $100.00 valuation on all property, real, person-
al, and mixed situated in, and all personal propert> owned in said City of
Fort Worth on the first day of January A D 1914, liable under the INK to
taxation and not exempt therefrom by the constitution or the lags of the
State of Texas,
Section 7; That there is also hereby levied and thereshall be col
lected as provided by law an annual, direct, special ad valorem tax for the
year 1914, for all such other purposee(besides those hereinbefore enumera-
ted) as are a,atherized by law and by the charter of said City of Fort Worth
of 611 cents on every $100.00 valuation on all property, real, personal,
and mixed situated-in, and all personal property owned in said City AS--]%A
Worth, on the first day of January k,D.1914, liable under the law to taxa-
tion and not exempt therefrom by the constitution or laws of the State of
Texas
That= there is hereby appy"isted out of the levy made under this
section and is, hereby set aside so much of the proceeds of the levy herein
made as may be neccessary and requisite to p the interest on and pro-
vide a sinking fund of two- per cent of thus the
of saitd' City of
Fort Worth other than bonds, upon and cones ing which said City of Fort
V rtlihas agreed to levy a tax in payment of such interest and to make provi
cion for a sinking funAthereen.
Sectio n 8; That those special tax levies whick are hereinbefore
made to provide for the payment of interest and to create a sinkinti fund
or to discharge and pay principal and interest of any obligation due or
owing by said City of Fort Wert*re not to be taken ae in addition to lea
vies for the same purposes made in the respective ordinances authorizing al
and creating such obligatione,but the loyies hereinbefore made are made
pursuant to and for the purpose of carrying out and complying with the pro-
visions of said prior ordinances, and all ad valorem taxes herein are levid
upon all the taxable property, real, personal amd mixed , situated in, and
P.11 pe"orsa ropes► caned in the City of Fort Worth as assessed, valued and
described 'iThe assessment, tax-rolls and tax-books of said L'i'ty of Fort
Wort*t r the year 1914, as the same have been presented to the Board of
Commissioners of the, said City of Fort Worth by the assessor and collector
of taxes of said City.
Section 9;That the taxes herein levied and authorized and required
.to be collected shall be and become due and payable on September lst,1914,
but the same shall not be construed to be delinquent so as to incur penalty
thereon until February let�1915, on which said date and thereafter, in the
event of default in payment, said penalty, as hereinafter set out, sly
accrujand be attached to, and become a part of the total amount to be id
by de saulting end delinquent taxpayers.
Section 10; That the 31st day of January A D 1915, is hereby fixes
ed as the final day upon which taxes shall be paid to the City of Fort
Werth, without the imposition of penalties, but it is further provided thtt
each and every person, firm, association or corporation paying and dis-
charging in full his, their, or its City taxes , as hereby fix-sed and lovid
on or before September 15th,1914, shall be allowed a rebate or discount of
three per cent of the full amount thereof, and by paying the same as afore-
said afterSeptember 15th,1914, and before October lst,1914, shall be allow-
ed a rebate of two per cent thereof as aforesaid,.
Section 11; That on and after February lst,1915, all such taxes
hereinbeffre levied, as remkin unpwid, as required herein to be paint on or
before January 31s 915, shall be de*m*olinquent and there shall be added
thereto a penalty Ff one per cent per month or part of month, upon the full
amount of such unptLd taxes for the time the same shall remain unpaid. Said
penalty of one pernt per month shall be added to said taxeArupon the lot
day pf February, 191P and upon hhe first day of each and every month there
after until taxes shall have been aaid,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 broght to revoe
er such taxes and penalty the delinquent tax-payer shall be and become liable
therefor and the property of such taxpayer shall be subject to the payment of
said taxee,penalties and costs, and the same shall be and become a lain upon
the property of such tax-payer, as prescribed by law.
Section 12; That thio ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage as provided by law.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was duly
peesented and unanimously passed and adopted by the Board of Conmissioners
of the City of Fort Werth at a regular session of said Board held the
25th day of August A D '1914.
C1t r pCbAtrlry .e
9proved as to form.
Assistant Corporation Counsel-6