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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO

UTILITY TAX ORDINANCE

BE IT RESOLVED, that the fallowing amendments to Section 1 of the Utility Tax Ordinance of Rappahannock County, are hereby introduced and proposed for adoption at the regular meeting' of the Board of Supervisors on the 2nd day of September, 1976, at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Section 15.1-504 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended.

This ordinance increases the utility tax on persons in Rappahannock County purchasing certain utilities services from five (5) percent to fifteen percent (15%) of the charge made by the seller, to provide certain limitations thereon, to provide revenue for the General Fund of Rappahannock County, pursuant to Section 58-587.1 and 58-617.2 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, by Acts of Assembly of 1966.

SECTION 1. Tax rate; levy; procedure as to payment.

Beginning September 1, 1976, and continuing thereafter unless otherwise changed, there is hereby imposed and levied by the County upon each and every purchase of a utility service a tax for general purposes in the following amounts:

(a) On purchasers of electric service for residential purposes, the tax shall be in the amount of fifteen percent (15%) of the charge (exclusive of any federal or state tax thereon) made by the seller against the purchaser with respect to such residential electric service; (provided, however, that in any case a monthly bill submitted by the seller for electric utility service for residential purposes shall exceed Ten Dollars, ($10.00), there shall be not tax computed on so much of such bills as shall exceed $10.00, except there shall be no tax computed on bills submitted for electric service for water heating where a separate meter is used solely for water heating service).

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