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AN ORDINANCE amending that portion of Ordinance No.
3187 relating to Failure to Make Timely Payment of Tax
or Fee and amending that section relating to Violation
and Penalties.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
SECTION 1. Section 6 of Ordinance No. 3187 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Failure to Make Timely Payment of Tax or Fee. If full
payment of any tax due under this Chapter is not received by the
City Treasurer on or before the date due, there shall be added to
the amount due a penalty fee as follows:
1-30 days, 10% of tax due, minimum penalty of $3.00
31-60 days, 15% of tax due, minimum penalty of $4.00
61 or more days, 20% of tax due, minimum penalty of $5.00.
In addition to this penalty, the City Treasurer may charge the
taxpayer interest of one percent (1%) of all taxes and fees due
for each thirty day period or portion thereof, that said amounts
are past due.
Failure to make payment in full of all tax amounts and
penalties within sixty (60) days following the day the tax amount
initially became due, shall be both a civil and criminal
violation of this Section. (Ord. 3187 & 6, 1974).
SECTION 2. Section 15 of Ordinance No. 3187 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Violation - Penalties. Anyone who shall violate or fail
to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine in a sum not exceeding
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and each day any person shall
continue to violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this
Ordinance, shall be deemed and considered a separate offense.
APPROVED by the City Council on first reading this /~ day
of March, 1984.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed
by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of
such passage this ~)' day of ~ [~/L~ , 1984.
ATTEST: MORRIE DAWKINS, Mayor
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