2019-163 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 51.3 Utility Tax

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For the next 5,000,000 kWh used or consumed in a month: 0.12852 cents per kWh; For the next 10,000,000 kWh used or consumed in a month: 0.12648 cents per kWh; For all kWh used or consumed in excess of 20,000,000 kWh in a month: 0.12444 cents per kWh; and, WHEREAS, Council Ordinance 2015-66 set a sunset provision at December 31, 2019, whereby the imposed tax rates adopted in Council Ordinance 2015-66 would cease and revert to the previously imposed and lower tax rates; and, WHEREAS, such action of sunset of Council Ordinance 2015-66 would place the City in a position negatively impacting the future financial affairs and condition of the City; and, WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City of Decatur, Illinois in the provision of services to adopt this Ordinance, whereby, the Utility Tax imposed by City Code Chapter 51.3 shall be renewed and extended at tax rates equal to the current level, until such time as changed or amended by action of the City Council. BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLIONS: Section 1. That Chapter 51.3 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby amended and modified at Section 2, so that said Section 2 as amended, shall provide as follows: 2. TAX IMPOSED. A tax is hereby imposed on all persons engaged in the following occupations or privileges: (a) persons engaged in the business of distributing, supplying, furnishing, or selling gas for use or consumption within the corporate limits of the City of Decatur,and not for resale,at the rate of four and one-fourth percent(4.25%)of the gross receipts therefrom, but excluding the distribution, supplying, furnishing, or sale of gas to school districts or units of local government; and, (b) persons (but excluding school districts and units of local government) engaged in the privilege of using or consuming electricity acquired in a purchase at retail and used or consumed within the corporate limits of the City of Decatur at the following rates, calculated on a monthly basis for each purchaser: