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Ord 1258 - AMENDING THE CONSTRUCTION TAXORDINANCE NO. 1 258 ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS AMENDING THE CONSTRUCTION TAX THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GA,TOS DOES ORDAIN: The Code of the Town of Los Gatos is amended as follows: SECTION 1. Sections 15 -73.3 and 15 -73.4 are repealed. SECTION 2. Section 15 -76 is amended to read: SEC. 15 -76. TAX RATE The tax imposed by this article is: 1. $.10 for each square foot of floor area of building. 2. $.10 for each square foot of building addition or alterations which increases the floor area, of an existing building. SECTION 3. Section 15 -77 is amended to read: SEC. 15 -77 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EXCLUDED This article imposes no tax on: 1. Remodeling, rehabilitation, repair and alteration of an existing building when there is no increase in floor area. -1- 2. Construction of structures or portions of structures used for private vehicle parking. (This exception does not apply when a structure or portion of a structure is for parking incidental to the use of a. building or premises for automobile sales or service.) 3. Construction of detached or attached accessory structures such as patio covers open on one or more sides, exterior shade structures, awnings, open porches, exterior balconies or stairways, open roof decks, lattice roof structures, arbors, greenhouses used incidentally to use of premises for residential purposes, or detached residential storage structures. THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT and shall be in force thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption. The Town Clerk of the Town of Los Gatos shall cause this ordinance to be published once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption, in the Los Gatos Times - Saratoga Observer, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the Town of Los Gatos. The above and foregoing ordinance was duly and regularly introduced at a. regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos held on the 4th day of August , -2- 1975. PASSED AND ADOPTED as an.Ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos, California, at a regular meeting of the Town Council held on the 18th day of August , 1975, by the following votes AYES: COUNCILMEN John B. Lochner A lb er t B. S mith Egon Jensen NOES: COUNCILMEN None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN Ruth Cannon Mark B. DiDuca SIGNED: MAYOR -QF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS ATTEST: (), �i CLERK 4 TI' TOWN OF LO GATOS -3-