05/25/2004 Ordinances 8910
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ORDINANCE NO. 8910
An ordinance to adopt an additional one-half (1/2) cent sales and use tax in the
City of Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska; to provide for filing with the Nebraska Tax
Commissioner a certified copy of this Ordinance, a certified map of the City of Grand Island, a
certified copy of the election results and a statement from the Hall County Election
Commissioner indicating that this issue has not been voted on during the last six months; and;
and to provide for publication and the effective date of this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA:
SECTION 1. By reason of the approval of the voters of the City of Grand Island
at the primary election held in the City on May 11, 2004, Grand Island does hereby impose a
sales and use tax of one-half of one percent upon the same transactions within the City on which
the State of Nebraska is authorized to impose a tax pursuant to the Nebraska Revenue Act of
1967, as amended from time to time, and such sales and use tax shall be in addition to the one
percent sales and use tax imposed by the City in Ordinance No. 7600 and the administration of
such sales and use taxes shall be by the Nebraska Tax Commissioner pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat.
S77-27,143.
SECTION 2. The sales and use tax imposed by this Ordinance shall commence
on the first day of the next calendar quarter which is at least one hundred twenty days following
receipt by the Tax Commissioner of a certified copy of this Ordinance as set forth in Neb. Rev.
Stat. S77-27,143.
SECTION 3. One-half of the proceeds of the sales and use taxes imposed by this
Ordinance shall be used to reduce the real property taxes imposed by the City and one-half of the
Approved as to Form J:l
May 19, 2004 J:l City Attorney
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ORDINANCE NO. 8910 (Cont.)
proceeds shall be used to fund capital improvements including but not limited to fire department
facilities, police department facilities, library facilities, parks and recreation facilities, senior
citizen/Grand Generation Center facilities and infrastructure.
SECTION 4. By reason of the approval of the voters of the City of Grand Island
at the primary election held on May 11, 2004, the City of Grand Island shall increase its
budgeted restricted funds for fiscal year 2004-2005 and subsequent years by $4,500,000 over the
current year's restricted funds.
SECTION 5. After passage and adoption of this Ordinance, the City Clerk is
hereby directed to mail a certified copy of this Ordinance together with a certified map of the
City of Grand Island, a certified copy of the election results and a statement from the Hall
County Election Commissioner indicating that this issue has not been voted on and failed within
the prior twenty-three months preceding the election to the Nebraska Tax Commissioner.
SECTION 6. This Ordinance shall be in full force and take effect, from and after
its passage, approval and publication as provided by law.
Enacted: May 25,2004.
Attest:
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RaNae Edwards, City Clerk
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