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Show If ORDINANCE NO. 2 AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING A THREE-FOURTHS OF ONE PER CENT MUNICIPAL SALES AND USE TAX PROVIDING FOR THE PERFORMANCE PER-FORMANCE BY THE STATE TAX COMMISSION OF ALL FUNCTIONS INCIDENT TO THE ADMINISTRATION OPERATION AND COLLECTION COLLEC-TION OF A SALES AND USE TAX HEREBY IMPOSED, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF THER-EOF AND REPEALING THE PREVIOUSLY ENACTED UNIFORM UN-IFORM LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX ORDINANCE OF THE MUNICIPALITY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMERI-CAN FORK CITY, UTAH: Section 1. Title. This ordinance ordin-ance shall be known as the "Uniform "Un-iform Local Sales and Use Tax Ordinance of the City of American Ameri-can Fork. Section 2. Purpose. The 41st Session of the Utah Legislature Legisla-ture of Utah has authorized the counties and municipalities of the State of Utah to enact sales and use tax ordinances imposing impos-ing a three-fourths of one per cent tax thus enabling this municipality mun-icipality to increase its local option sales and use tax from one-half of one per cent to three-fourths three-fourths of one per cent. Additionally, said Session of the Legislature has enacted amendments to Chapters 15 and 16 of Title 59, Utah Code Annotated, Anno-tated, 1953, sufficiently to require this municipality to modify its sales and use tax ordinance to bring about conformity confor-mity to those changes. It is the purpose of this ordinance ordin-ance to conform the Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax of the municipality to the requirements require-ments of the Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax law of Utah, Chapter 9 of Title II, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as currently amended by repealing the previously enacted Uniform Sales and Use Tax Ordinance of this municipality and re-enacting re-enacting by this ordinance a new Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax ordinance. Section 3. Effective Date -Continuance of Former Ordinance. Ordin-ance. This ordinance shall become effective as of 12:01 o'clock a.m., July 1, 1975. The provisions of the previously enacted en-acted Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax ordinance of the municipality muni-cipality which is repealed hereby her-eby and which are in conflict herewith shall continue effective effec-tive until 12:00 o'clock midnight, June 30, 1975. The provisions of this ordinance which are not in conflict with said former ordinance ordin-ance shall be deemed to be a continuation thereof and any rights, duties and obligations ar-.. ising thereunder shall not in any way be deemed abrogated or terminated. Section 4. Sales Tax. (a) (1) From and after the effective date of this ordinance, there is levied and there shall be collected and paid a tax upon every retail sale of tangible personal per-sonal property, services and - meals made within the municipality munici-pality at the rate of three-fourths three-fourths of one per cent (). (2) For the purpose of this ordinance all retail sales shall be presumed to have been consummated con-summated at the place of business busi-ness of the retailer unless the tangible personal property sold is delivered by the retailer or his agent to an out-of-state destination des-tination or to a common carrier for delivery to an out-of-state destination or to a common carrier car-rier for delivery to an out-of-state destination. In the event a retailer has no permanent place of business in the state, or has more than one place of business, the place or places at which the retail sales are consummated con-summated shall be as determined deter-mined under the rules and regulations regu-lations prescribed and adopted by the State Tax Commission. Public utilities as defined by Title 54, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, shall not be obligated to determine the place or places within any county or municipality municipali-ty where public utilities services are rendered, but the place of sale or the sales tax revenues arising from such service allocable allo-cable to the city shall be as determined by the State Tax Commission pursuant to an appropriate ap-propriate formula and other rules and regulations to be prescribed and adopted by it. (b) (1) Except as hereinafter herein-after provided, and except insofar inso-far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of the Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law of Utah, all of the provisions of Chapter 15, Title 59, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended, and in force and effect on the effective date of this ordinance, insofar as they relate to sales taxes, excepting Sections 59-15-1 and 59-15-21 thereof, and excepting except-ing for the amount of the sales tax levied therein, are hereby adopted and made a part of this ordinance as though fully set forth herein. (2) Wherever, and to the extent that in Chapter 15 of Title 59,-Utah Code Annotated, 1953, the,State of Utah is named or refiSred to as the taxing agency, the name of this municipality muni-cipality shall be substituted therefor. Nothing in this subparagraph subpar-agraph (b; shall be deemed to require substitution of the name of the municipality for the word "State" when that word is used as part of the title of the State Tax Commission, or of the Constitution Con-stitution of the State of Utah, nor shall the name of the municipality muni-cipality be substituted for that of the State in any section when the result of that substitution would require action to be taken by or against the municipality Notices or any agency thertol, miner than by or against the Slate Tax Commission in performing the functions incident to the administration admini-stration or operation of this ordinance. or-dinance. (3) If an annual license has been issued to a retailer under Section 59-15-3 of the said Utah Code Annotated, 1953, an additional license shall not be required by reason of this section. sec-tion. (4) There shall be excluded exclud-ed from the purchase price paid or charged by which the tax is measured: (A) The amount of any sales or use tax imposed by the State of Utah upon a retailer or consumer; (B) Receipts from the sale of tangible personal property upon which a sales or use tax has become due by reason of the same transaction to any other municipality and any county in the Stale of Utah, under a sales or use tax ordinance enacted by that county or municipality in accordance with the Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law of Utah. Section 5. Use Tax. (a) An excise tax is hereby imposed on the storage, use, or other consumption in this municipality muni-cipality of tangible personal property from any retailer on or after the operative date of this ordinance for storage, use or other consumption in the municipality muni-cipality at the rate of three-fourths three-fourths of one per cent () of the sales price of the property. (b) (1) Except as hereinafter herein-after provided, and except insofar inso-far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of said Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law of Utah, all of the provisions of Chapter 16, Title 59, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended and in force and effect on the effective date of this ordinance, applicable to use taxes, excepting except-ing the provisions of Sections 59-16-1 and 59-16-25 thereof, and excepting for the amount of the tax levied therein, are hereby adopted and made a part of this section as though fully set forth herein. (2) Wherever and to the extent that in said Chapter 16 of Title 59, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, the State of Utah is named or referred to as the taxing agency, the name of this municipality shall be substituted substitut-ed therefor. Nothing in this subparagraph sub-paragraph (b) shall be deemed to require the substitution of the name of this municipality for the word "State" when that word is used as part of the title of thp State Tax Commission, or of the Constitution of the State of Utah, nor shall the name of the municipality be substituted for that of the State in any . section when the results of that , substitution would require action ac-tion to be taken by or against the municipality or any agency thereof, rather than by or against the State Tax Commission Commis-sion in performing the functions incident to the administration or operation of this ordinance. (3) There shall be exempt from the tax due under this section: (A) The amount of any sales or use tax imposed by the State of Utah upon a retailer or consumer; (B) The storage, use or other consumption of tangible personal property, the gross receipts from the sales of or the cost of which has been subject to sales or use tax under a sales or use tax ordinance enacted in accordance with the Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law of Utah by any other municipality and any county of the State. Section 6. Contract with State Tax Commission. Heretofore, Hereto-fore, this municipality has entered en-tered into an agreement with the State Tax Commission to perform all functions incident to the administration or operation of the sales and use tax ordinance ordin-ance of the municipality. That contract is hereby confirmed and the mayor is hereby authorized author-ized to enter into such supplementary supple-mentary agreement with the State Tax Commission as may be necessary to the continued administration and operation of the local sales and use tax ordinance or-dinance of the municipality as re-enacted by this ordinance. Section 7. Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction convic-tion thereof, shall be punishable by a fine in an amount less than $300.00 or imprisonment for a period of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 8. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, sen-tence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance, including but not limited to any exemption is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision deci-sion of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. ordin-ance. It is the intention of the City Council that each separate provision of this ordinance shall be deemed independent of all other provisions herein. Adopted by the City Council of the City of American Fork, Utah, this 22 day of April, 1975. , Malcolm H. Beck, Mayor ATTEST: State of Utah SS. County of Utah I. Ray C. Nelson, City Recorder Record-er of American Fork City, Utah do hereby certify that the above is a full and true correct copy of an Ordinance passed by the City Council of American Fork Ctiy, American Fork, Utah on the 22nd day of April 1975. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of American Fork City, Utah this 22nd day of April 1975. Ray C. Nelson, Recorder American Fork City Published in the American Fork Citizen May 1. 1975. ORDINANCE NO. 17-67 AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON PER-SON TO INTENTIONALLY SUBMIT A FALSE REPORT OF A CRIME. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMERI-CAN FORK CITY, AS FOLLOWS: FOL-LOWS: SECTION I . FALSE RFPORT OF CRIME. Every person who orally, or in writing reports to any police officer, dispatcher, or elected or appointed ap-pointed official of the city, that a crime has been committed, knowing such report to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor. It shall also be unlawful for any person to knowingly falsify any report or make a false statement state-ment for the purpose of misleading mislead-ing a police investigation. Any such false report or false statement state-ment shall constitute a misdemeanor. misde-meanor. SECTION II. EMERGENCY. EMER-GENCY. In the opinion of the City Council it is necessary to the preservation of the health and safety of the inhabitants of the city that this Ordinance become effective immediately upon its passage and first publication. publi-cation. SECTION III. This Ordinance Ordin-ance shall take effect immediately immedia-tely upon its passage and first publication. Passed by the City Council of American Fork City this 22nd day of April, 1975. Malcolm H. Beck, Mavor ATTEST: State of Utah SS. County of Utah I. Ray C. Nelson, City Recorder Record-er of American Fork City, Utah do hereby certify thai the above is a full and true correct copy of an Ordinance passed by the City Council of American Fork Ctiy, American Fork, Utah on the 22nd day of April 1975. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of American Fork City, Utah this 22nd day of April 1975. Ray C, Nelson, Recorder American Fork City Published in the American Fork Citizen May 1, 1975. NOTICE TO WATER USERS The following applications have b'."jn tiled with the Stale Engineer to appropriate water in Utah County throughout the entire year unless otherwise designated. Locations in SL.B& M. 44832 (55-5576) George L. Crawford, R.F.D. Box 482, American Fork, Utah 84003. 0.015 sec. ft. of water is to be diverted from a 4-inch well, 50-200 ft. deep at a point S. 225 ft. and W. 1700 ft. from EA Cor. Sec. 21, T5S, R1E (0.2 mi. SW of American Fork); and used for domestic purposes of one family, stockwatering of 2 cattle, 2 horses, 25 chickens; and used from Apr. 1 to Oct. 31 for the irrigation of 0.25 acs. in NW'4SE'4 Sec. 21, T5S, R1E. 44846 (55-5577) David L. Smith, 492 West 165 South, Or-em, Or-em, Utah 84057. 0.015 sec. ft. of water is to be diverted from a 4-inch well, 50-200 ft. deep at a point S. 550 ft. and W. 2225 ft. from E4 Cor. Sec. 21, T5S, R1E (0.2 mi. SW of American Fork); and used for domestic purposes of one family, stockwatering of 2 cattle, 2 horses, 25 chickens; and used from Apr. 1 to Oct. 31 for the irrigation of 0.25 acs. in NWV4SEI4 Sec. 21. T5S, R1E. Protests resisting the granting grant-ing of these applications with reasons therefor must be filed in duplicate with the State Engineer, En-gineer, 442 State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114, on or before June 7, 1975. Dee C. Hansen STATE ENGINEER Published in American Fork Citizen April 24, May 1 and 8, 1975. NOTICE TO WATER USERS Donald L. Roper, Route 1, Box 11, American Fork, Utah, has filed with the State Engineer En-gineer Appl. No. 44812 (55-5574) to appropriate 0.015 sec. ft. of water in Utah County. The water is to be diverted from a 6-inch well, )70 ft. deep at a point N. 194 ft. and W. 500 ft. from Ei4 Cor. Sec. 25, T5S, R1E SLB&M; (1.4 mi. SE of American Ameri-can Fork); and used from Apr. 1 to Oct. 31 for the irrigation of 0.25 acs. in SEy4NEy4 Sec. 25, T5S, R1E, SLB&M. Protests resisting the granting grant-ing of this application with reasons rea-sons therefor must be filed in duplicate with the State Engineer, En-gineer, 442 State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114, on or before May 31, 1975. Dee C. Hansen STATE ENGINEER Published in American Fork Citizen April 17, 24, May 1, 1975. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN 66 West Main American Fork, Utah 84003 Postage Paid at American Fork Postoffice Published by the Alpine Publishing Co. Every Thursday E. Russell Innes, Publisher Subscription Price Per Year $5.50 (In Advance) Elder tan At A.F. Noi In addition to a years supply of food and clothing, we should all store up memories of our family life. Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Max-well, assistant to the Council of the Twelve, told members of the American Fork North Stake at quarterly conference on Sunday. Sun-day. April 27. A capacity crowd of stake members filled the main floor of the tabernacle and over-flowed PUBLIC HEARING WHEREAS THE PLANNING COMMISSION has recommended recommend-ed certain amendments to the zoning ordinance of American Fork City, and, WHEREAS a Public Hearing must be held before an Amendment Amend-ment can be made to the present Zoning Ordinances of the City of American Fork. NOW. THEREFORE, NOTICE is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held in the American Fork City Hall at 7:00 p.m. on May 13, 1975 to consider recommendations of the Planning Commission. Said Recommendations being to rezone the following described property from the present R-2 (Residential 2) to R-3 (Residential 3): Beginning at the Northeast North-east corner of Block 30, Plat "A", AMERICAN FORK SURVEY OF BUILDING LOTS; Thence South 78 feet; Thence West 120 feet; Thence North 87 feet; Thence East 120 feet to the place of beginning. Details of the proposed zoning changes are on file in the office of the American Fork City Recorder and may be examined during office hours. Ray C. Nelson Am. Fork City Recorder Published in American Fork Citizen April 17, 24, and May 1, 1975. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estci tc of CARMA GREENWOOD, Deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned under-signed Administrator at the office of-fice of Wootton and Wootton, Attorneys at Law, Suite 12, Geneva Building, 8 North Center Street, American Fork, Utah, on or before July 19, 1975; claims must be presented in accordance with the provisions of 75-9-5, Utah Code Annotated 1953, and with proper verification verifica-tion as required therein. David L. Greenwood Administrator Published in the American Fork Citizen, April 17, 1975, date of first publication. Date of last publication: May 8, 1975. with $100 ell Counsels Members th Stake Conference basement rooms where c lose,! tit 1 111 1 te cvision ninlH De sv(-n. Hii.T Maxwell continued that these memories of family life should include moments of both love and work as the family had done things together in love and hanrmr.y, "The skills 111 life that really matter we learn in family life. We learn to work, to love, to repcui, and these are lessons that rn:iv he learned painfully but net as painfully as if they are learned out in the world." Each family is a "miniature bram h of the Church ... a branch where the leaders don't change lor we have the family for eternity. We should give this bramh great importance," Elder Eld-er Maxwell .said. He continued, we need to be sensitive to those around us and their feelings. Elder Maxwell illustrated ins point with a story about the time President Nathan Nath-an Eldon Tanner found out a boy was not going to church because he didn't have anything to wear but bib overalls, so Pres. Tanner wore tub overalls to church for several Sundays in order to make the boy feel welcome wel-come and to let him know the important thing was thai he was in attendance. Elder Maxwell said this is a global church, deeply concerned with missionary work. He said many of the Mission Presidents are now men from the countries they are serving in, for example a president from Germany has been called to serve in Germany, Ger-many, a president from Samoa to serve in Samoa. "The Lord has raised these people up at this time to lead these missions." mis-sions." "Many times we wonder why things happen to us; why we have to suffer; or to go through trials and feel the Lord has forgotten us. God hasn't forgotten forgot-ten us. He is making us more fit to cope with things that arc to come later. If we remember Him, God will give us the courage cour-age we need when the time comes . . . the courage to say no when we are faced with doing things that we know are not the right thing." "We have friends who need to be taught the gospel and how to pray and if we don't teach them, who will?" Elder Maxwell asked. r President Leland F. Priday conducted the conference session ses-sion and was the first speaker. He commended the stake members on their response to the stake building fund, saying LJ Lj LJlUl I Mountain View Bank has cut the minimum balance required for free checking on regular checking accounts from $300 down to $100. Budgets are being squeezed enough these days we hope we can take some of the squeeze off. We also give absolutely free checking with no minimum balance to anyone over 65, students and any missionary now in the field. If you don't have a Mountain View Bank checking account and you're paying more for your checks, drop in and see us. Hopefully we can ease the squeeze. Mountain View Bank Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 207 East Main Street American Fork, Utah about $100,000 has been raised to date. He noted there are currently 39 full time missionaries serving from the stake, an increase of 11 over earlier in the year. He urged stake members to do all they can to encourage their sons to go on missions . . . and to continue to encourage them once they get into the field. Saying that people don't often work up to their ability, he noted not-ed that many great things are .in) il a HW 1 I ' ' ! -V"" 'ro-- A 7 - A M v i BICYCLE ROAD RALLY - Preparing for the bicycle road rally on Saturday, May 3, are, I. to r., Capt. Ron Skillicorn, Rodney Turnerand Reed Murdock. Bicycle Safety Clinic Sat. The bicycle safety road rally will be held on Saturday, May 3, at the Utah National Guard Armory Ar-mory in American Fork. All youngsters in the community are urged to be in attendance . . . with their bicycles. Events will begin at 9 a.m. and continue throughout the morning. Purpose of the safety program is to help the bicycle drivers become more knowledgeable knowled-geable about their bicycles and about road safety rules in an aid to reducing accidents on the two-wheel vehicles. minimum balance AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN done under handicaps, when a call comes, we should all respond positively. President David Haymond spoke on the law of the harvest . . . or keeping out the weeds. Telling about the stake welfare farm, he noted that the wards that kept the weeds out of their rows had greater harvests than those that let the weeds go. "This happens in our lives also," al-so," he said, for the weeds are "poor health habits, nonpayment non-payment of tithe, non-attendance non-attendance at our meetings." These, he went on, prevent us from reaching our potential in life. Also speaking briefly were Bicycle drivers need to understand under-stand that they are not merely a bicycle rider but a driver in the same sense that one drives an automobile . . . and they are subject to the same traffic rules and regulations as other drivers. Participants in the road rally will be instructed on how to keep their bicycles in safe oper-atingcondition, oper-atingcondition, how to drive their bicycles safely, and how to recognize traffic signs and obey the rules of the road. Each will receive a certificate of achievement upon completion u u 1 jk M. Mj Itarwirej - rrr- -.x1 THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1975 Cynthia Wick, a convert to the church; Diane Walton, the mother of a missionary now serving; and Belva Bateman. All bore their testimonies to the truthfulness of the Gospel. The opening prayer was offered of-fered by Evan Ray Harris, and the benediction by Ralph Kitchen. Kit-chen. The theme of the conference was centered on how we as a stake can fulfill our responsibility responsibili-ty for missionary work. Special music for the conference confer-ence was provided by the combined com-bined choirs of the Fourth and Fifteenth Wards, conducted by Rod Turner with Mary Bailey at the organ. of the instruction and the passing pass-ing of a written and a road test as well as a bicycle safety check. They will also have a bicycle safety flag mounted on their bicycle to help make them more visible to motorists. These flags are being donated by members of the Utah National Guard. r id 1 1 iiiiw 111 hi irini 1 r iiiHti rally is sponsored by the I457 Eng. Btn., Utah National Guard in cooperation with American Fork City Recreation and area schools. tk 1 I . - f n |