2001-005-ORD AMENDING SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE NO 2000-067 AND SPECIFICALLY SECTION 16-39(a) OF ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 16 OF CODE OF ORDINANCES

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ORDINANCE NO. 2001-005 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, AMENDING SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE NO. 2000-067 AND SPECIFICALLY SECTION 16-39(a) OF ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 16 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS, AS ADOPTED BY SAID PRIOR ORDINANCE, TO REFLECT A REVISED STREET USE FEE IMPOSED ON SOLID WASTE COLLECTORS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PRESERVING THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THE PRIOR ORDINANCE; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, has previously adopted Ordinance No. 2000-067 on December 11, 2000, amending Chapter 16 of the Code of Ordinances to establish new regulations and requirements related to residential, commercial, and industrial waste hauling and waste collection within the city of Paris; and, WHEREAS, among other items addressed in said ordinance, the aforesaid ordinance included adoption of a new Section 16-39 to the Code of Ordinances, imposing a street use fee on solid waste collectors in the amount of fourteen percent (14%) of the gross receipts received by commercial and industrial waste haulers within the city limits; and, WHEREAS, the intent of the aforesaid street use fee was to replace other similar fees imposed upon commercial and industrial waste collected, hauled, or disposed within the City, with the revenues derived by the City from the imposition of the new street use fee to be revenue neutral with respect to the prior fees imposed by the City; and, WHEREAS, the City has received additional information related to the assessment of said street use fee which indicates the City's desired goal of anticipated revenue could be achieved by the use of a lessor percentage of gross revenue; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. That the findings set out in the preamble to this ordinance are hereby in all things approved. Section 2. That Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2000-067, adopted by the City Council on the 11th day of December, 2000, as the same adopted a new Section 16-39(a) to the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paris, assessing a street use fee on solid waste collectors, shall be and is hereby amended to reflect a revised street use fee, said amended Section 16-39(a) to read as follows: