HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-25-1949 Regular MeetingSTATE OF ALABAMA
County of Baldwin
The Town Council of the Town of Fairhope met in regular
session at the Town Hall July 25, 1949 with the following
members present: Mayor T.J.Klumpp, City Superintendent
C. B. Niemeyer, Councilmen: M.O. Berglin., J. T. Bradford,
R. H. Brown, E. B.'Overton and I. Steele.
The minutes of the previous regular meeting were read and
approved.
Motion by Councilman Berglin seconded by Councilman Steele
that the Town purchase three molds for making concrete
street Markers. Motion carried.
The following Ordinance was introduced by Councilman
Steele it being read in full the same being as follows:
ORDINANCE # / f4
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF FAIRHOPE,
ALABA1a :
SECTION 1. TAX LEVY IN CITY. In addition to all other
taxes now imposed by law or ordinance, every person, except
as herein otherwise provided, who conducts or operates a
place of amusement within the corporate limits of the City
shall pay a license tax to the City and a license tax is here-
by fixed and levied, which license tax shall be an amount .
equal to one cent for each forty cents or fraction thereof
of admission to any such place of amusement, including
admission by season tickets, or subscriptions.
SECTION 2. TAX LEVY IN POLICE JURISDICTION In addition a
to all other taxes now imposed by law or ordinance, every
person, except as herein otherwise provided, who conducts
or operates a place of amusement without the corporate limits
of the City but within its police jurisdicition shall pay
a license tax herein fixed and levied for operating a like
place of -amusement within the corporate limits of the City.
SECTION 3. DATE FOR FILING STATEMENT AND PAYING TAX.
Each person who shall conduct or operate a place of amusement
within the City or within its police jurisdiction shall, on
or before the 1st day of September, 1949, and on or before the
the first day of each month thereafter, file with the City
Clerk of the --City a sworn written statement which shall be a
full, true, ccurate and correct statement of the number of
admissions to such place of amusement sold by such person during
the then, next preceeding calendar month together with the
amount for each admission. The license tax herein fixed on
or before the date of the filing of each such statement, based -
on the charges made for admission to such place of amusement
during the then next preceeding calendar month.
Provided, that in the case of a place of amusement operated by
a transient person, the statement in this section required to
be made shall be made, and the amount of license tax due shall
be paid, by such transient person, daily before the End of the
performance, entertainment exhibition or amusement of that day.
Provided, further, that no place of amusement operated
by a transient person shall open for business on any day until
such transient person MILCm operating or conducting such
place of amusement shall have given security as herein provided
for the payment of all license taxes due hereunder. Such