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Sections 15 -73.3 and 15 -73.4 are repealed.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-