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ORDINANCE Amending Section 2-18-210 of the San Leandro Municipal Code Relating to the Temporary Reduction of the Emergency Communication System Access Tax (911 Tax) for Single Access Lines on Prepaid Wireless Services
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The City Council of the City of San Leandro does ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT OF CODE. Title 2, Chapter 18, Section 2-18-210 of the San Leandro Municipal Code is amended to reflect a single access line temporary reduction effective January 1, 2016 through January 1, 2020 to comply with the Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act (AB1717) and to read as follows:
“2-18-210 IMPOSITION OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ACCESS TAX
(c) Only one payment of the tax herein imposed shall be required for any access line, trunk line, or super trunk line, notwithstanding that access lines of more than one service supplier are used in furnishing local telephone service to a telephone subscriber. The Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act mandates that the Single Access Line Rate for Emergency Communication System Access Tax for 911 Services be temporarily reduced from $2.32 to $1.65.”
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases of this Ordinance, or its application to any other person or circumstance. The City Council of the City of San Leandro hereby declares that it would have adopted each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases hereof is declared invalid or unenforceable.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE AND PUBLICATION. This ordinance shall take effect January 1, 2016, shall be in effect for four years and shall end on January 1, 2020, unless this sunset date is extended. In that case, the Ordinance shall remain in effect without further or additional action. The City Clerk is directed to publish the title once and post a complete copy thereof on the City Council Chamber bulletin board for five (5) days prior to adoption.
Introduced by Councilmember Lee on this 8th day of September, 2015, and passed to print by the following called vote:
Members of the Council:
AYES: Councilmembers Cox, Lee, Lopez, Prola, Reed, Thomas; Mayor Cutter (7)
NOES: None (0)
ABSENT: None (0)