ORDINANCE NO. 2030

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION SALES AND USE TAX ORDINANCE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION:

1. That Sections 24-55 and 24-63 of Chapter 24 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Grand Junction are amended to read as follows:

"Section 24-55. Amount of tax.

There are hereby imposed upon all sales of commodities and services specified in Section 24-52, taxes in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) On sales amounting to twenty-two cents ($0.22) to and including seventy-eight cents ($0.78), a tax of one cent ($0.01).

(2) On sales amounting to seventy-five cents ($0.79) to and including one dollar twenty-one cents ($1.21), a tax of two cents ($0.02).

(3) On sales amounting to one dollar twenty-two cents ($1.22) to and including one dollar seventy-eight cents ($1.78), a tax of three cents ($0.03).

(4) On sales amount to one dollar seventy-nine cents ($1.79) to and including two dollars twenty-one cents ($2.21), a tax of four cents ($0.04).

(5) On sales amounting to two dollars twenty-two ($2.22) to and including two dollars seventy-eight cents ($2.78), a tax of five cents ($0.05).

(6) And on all higher sales, two cents ($0.02) shall be added in each bracket of one dollar ($1.00) or portion thereof of additional selling price."

"Section 24-63. Use tax levied; amount.

There is hereby levied and there shall be collected from every person in the city a tax or excise for the privilege of storing, using or consuming in this city any articles of tangible personal property purchased at retail from sources outside the corporate limits of Grand Junction, subsequent to August 1, 1964. Such tax shall be payable to and shall be collected by the Finance Director or his authorized agent in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) On storage or acquisition charges or costs from twenty-two cents ($0.22) to and including seventy-eight cents ($0.78), a tax of one cent ($0.01).

(2) On storage or acquisition charges or costs from seventy-nine cents ($0.79) to and including one dollar twenty-one cents ($1.21), a tax of two cents ($0.02).

(3) On storage or acquisition charges or costs from one dollar twenty-two cents ($1.22) to and including one dollar seventy-eight cents ($1.78), a tax of three cents ($0.03).

(4) On storage or acquisition charges or costs from one dollar seventy-nine cents ($1.79) to and including two dollars twenty-one cents ($2.21), a tax of four cents ($0.04).

(5) On storage or acquisition charges or costs from two dollars twenty-two cents ($2.22) to and including two dollars seventy-eight cents ($2.78), a tax of five cents ($0.05).

(6) On all higher storage or acquisition charges or costs, two cents ($0.02) shall be added in each bracket of one dollar ($1.00) or portion thereof of such higher charges or costs."

2. A special emergency exists and the immediate adoption of this Ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and this Ordinance shall become effective on the 1st day of January, 1982.

PASSED and ADOPTED this 16th day of December, 1981.

Louis R. Brach

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President of the Council

Attest:

Neva B. Lockhart, CMC

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City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing emergency ordinance, entitled AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION SALES AND USE TAX ORDINANCE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, was introduced, read, passed and adopted as an emergency ordinance, numbered 2030, and ordered published by the unanimous vote of the members of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 16th day of December, 1981.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official Seal of said City this 17th day of December, 1981.

Neva B. Lockhart

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Neva B. Lockhart, CMC

City Clerk

Published: December 19, 1981

Effective: January 1, 1982