115 of 1976 - Amending Section 20-3-14 increasing utility revenue tax from 2% to 8%, retaining 2% franchise tax fo ROLL CALL
VOTING j/ Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, June 30 ,19 76
Mr.Chairman
Agraz! I move that the Once be p d.
Gre
Hogensen
Phillips
Result ( AN ORDINANCE c� 'o
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Section 20-3-14 of the Revised Ordinances
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1965, relating to utility revenue tax.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 20-3-14 of the Revised Ordinances of
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1965, relating to utility revenue tax, be, and
the same hereby is amended as follows:
"Sec. 20-3-14. Utility revenue tax. There is hereby levied
upon the business of every person or company engaged in the
business in Salt Lake City, Utah, of supplying telephone, gas
or electric energy service as public utilities, an annual license
tax equal to two percentum from the effective date hereof through
December 31, 1976, and eight percentum thereafter, of the gross
revenue derived from the sale and use of the services of said
utilities within the corporate limits of Salt Lake City.
The term "gross revenue," as used herein, shall be construed
to mean the revenue derived from the sale and use of public utility
services within Salt Lake City, provided that "gross revenue" as
applied to the telephone utility shall be construed to mean basic
local exchange service revenue received from subscribers located
within Salt Lake City and directly connected with the switchboard
or switchboards of said utility located in the city.
"Public Utility Services" shall mean the sale and use of
electrical power and energy, natural gas and local exchange
telephone service.
Within forty-five days after the close of each quarter in a
calendar year, any public utility taxed hereunder shall file
with the city treasurer of Salt Lake City a report of its gross
revenue derived from the sale and use of public utility services
in Salt Lake City as defined herein, together with a computation
of the tax levied hereunder against the utility. Coincidental
with the filing of such report, the utility shall pay tothe city
treasurer the amount of the tax."
SECTION 2. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners of
Salt Lake City, it is necessary to the peace, health and welfare of
the City of Salt Lake that this ordinance take effect immediately.
SECTION 3. This ordinances shall take effect at once upon its
first publication.
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Passed by the Board of CommissOners of Salt Lake ty t s 30th
day of June, 1976. fTEMPORk C RRMAN
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BILL NO. 115 of 1976
Published June 30, 1976
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Affidavit of Publication
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follows utility revenue tax,be.aixl Being first doh sworn,deposes and says that he is legal advel'-
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Lake City.Utah,of supplying re epnonc,gas or olectris
service as public utilities.an annual license lity equal lie csimper printed in the English lmtguage with general car-
torgy ow-rent/ph from me effective date nnreor three.Dhrceinher
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y the Booed of Commissloun,of Salt'_aki-Cily this
nth day of Jo.,Mo.
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Tnmw rrary CFatehtelh - ___
KATIMERINC L.BARSNICK
Chief Deputy C1hr Recorder
P L i nsof I4,6 was published in said newspaper on June 30, 1976
Fetlished Juno]p.IWO IC 6rl
Legal Advertising Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th__-------___---- day of
July---------- A.D. 19_76 -.
Notary Public
My Commission Expires
February 13, 1978