Ordinance No. 245•
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ORDINANCE N0.
AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE TAX RATE AND TAX LEVY FOR THE CITY
hereby directed
to
• OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,
of
1955, UPON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY IN SAID CITY OF BAYTOWN,
for
the current taxable year, the amounts and rates herein
TEXAS, IN CONFORMITY WITH THE LAWS OF TEXAS AND THE CHARTED.
PROVISIONS AND THE ORDINANCES OF SAID CITY; AND REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
SECTION l: That there shall be and is hereby levied and shall be
assessed
and collected for the year ending September 30, 1955, an ad valorem tax
of One
Dollar and Seventy -Two Cents ($1.72) on each One Hundred Dollars ($100)
worth of ^ J
property located within the present city limits of the City of Baytown,'made
taxable by law, which said taxes when collected shall be apportioned among the
funds and departments of city government of the City of Baytown and for the
• purpose hereinafter set forth as follows, to -wit:
For the General Fund 0 1;52
For the purpose of paying the
accruing interest and to
provide a sinking fund for the
payment of the bonded indebted-
ness of the City of, Raytoern .20
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SECTION 2: The ad valorem tax rate of One Dollar and Seventy -Two Cents
01.72) as set forth in 'Section 1, above, is hereby levied and shall be assessed
and collected on only Fifty (50%) per cent of each One Hundred ($100) Dollars
worth of property located within Baytown as valued by the Equalization Board
for the City of Baytown, and made taxable by law.
SECTION 3: The City Tax Assessor and Collector of the City of Baytown is
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hereby directed
to
assess, extend and enter upon the tax rolls of the City
of
Raytown, Texas,
for
the current taxable year, the amounts and rates herein
levied,
and to keep a correct account of same, and when so collected, the same to be
deposited in the depository of the City of Baytown, to be distributed in accordance
with this ordinance.
SECTION 4: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
expressly repealed.
READ, ADOPTED and APPROVED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, at a regular meeting held at the City Hall
on the 9th day of September, 1954.
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R. . Pruett, Mayor
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Edna Oliver, City Clerk