Ord 1561-A - AMENDING SECTION 28 -18 OF THE TOWN CODE REGARDING THE TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX.ORDINANCE NO. 1561 -A
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
AMENDING SECTION 28 -18 OF THE TOWN
CODE REGARDING THE TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY
TAX.
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Section 28 -18 of the Town Code is amended to read as follows:
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For the privilege of occupancy in any hotel, each
transient is subject to and shall pay a tax in the amount of
ten percent of the rent charged by the operator. Such tax
constitutes a debt owed by the transient to the town, which
is extinguished only by payment to the operator or to the
town. The transient shall pay the tax to the operator of
the hotel at the time the rent is paid. If the rent is paid
in installments, a proportionate share of the tax shall be
paid with each installment. The unpaid tax shall be due upon
the transient's ceasing to occupy space in the hotel. If for
any reason the tax due is not paid to the operator of the
hotel, the tax administrator may require that such tax shall
be paid directly to the tax administrator.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall take effect and shall be in force thirty
days after the date of its adoption. Within 15 days after this
ordinance is adopted, the Town Clerk shall cause it to be published
once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated
in the Town.
This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the
Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos held on the 6th day of
December 1982, and adopted by the following vote as an ordinance
of the Town of Los Gatos at a regular meeting of the Town Council
held on the 3rd day of January , 1983.
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS Joanne Benjamin, Terren
J. Daily, Thomas J. Ferrito, MarLyn J.
Rasmussen and Mayor Brent. N. Ventura
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS None
SIGNED: ( a /�,f,� - .. •
MAYO F THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
ATTEST:
CLERK F THE TOWN OF LOS GAT
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