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ORDINANCE 11280 ORDINANCE NO. 1128 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE BY DELETING SECTION 5.08.012 IN ITS ENTIRETY AND AMENDING SECTIONS 5.08.020, 5.08.520, 5,08,570, 5.08.585, AND 5.08.670 OF CHAPTER 5.08, TITLE 5 OF THAT CODE, WHICH CHAPTER RELATES TO A BUSINESS LICENSE TAX. WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of amending its tax upon businesses of this City to provide for a reasonable and fair share of the cost of providing municipal services based upon the need for services created by business; and WHEREAS, the number of workers at each site maintained by a business within the City bears a relationship to the demand for municipal services generated by that business; and WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of amending the City's business license tax so that it bears a more direct relationship to the number of people working at each business within the City whether they are part -time, full -time, regular employees, or independent contractors; NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 5.08.012 of Chapter 5.08 Title 5 of the El Segundo Municipal Code is hereby deleted in its entirety. SECTION 2. Sections 5.08.020(c), 5,08.520(c), 5.08.570(c), 5.08.585(c), and 5.08.670(c) of Chapter 5.08 Title 5 of the El Segundo Municipal Code shall be amended as follows: (a) The following language of said sections shall be deleted: "For the purpose of determining the number of employees in any business subject to this section the term "employee" shall mean any person employed in a full -time, part -time, or temporary capacity and working in said business for a wage, salary, commission, fee or board and room. The number of employees of the said business, for the purposes of this section, shall be determined by totaling the number of hours worked by all employees (as defined herein) during the license period, and thereafter dividing that number by 40, and the result thereof by 52, or a number less than 52 which reflects the number of weeks the business operated during a license period." (b) The language so deleted shall be replaced by the following language: "For the purpose of this section, the term "employee" shall mean any person employed by the business; and shall include an independent contractor, and persons employed by the independent contractor, unless the independent contractor and /or persons employed by the independent contractor has a valid City of E1 Segundo business license as prescribed in Chapters 5.04 and 5.08 of the El Segundo Municipal Code. -1- JOA:0- 110688.F The total number of employees for each business for purposes of this section shall be determined by averaging the total number of employees employed by each business during each of the four calendar quarters preceding the date the tax is payable." SECTION 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or any part thereof is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this ordinance or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. SECTION 4. Operative Date. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon passage and adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated within said City of El Segundo and which is hereby designated for that purpose. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 29th , -Oay of November, 1988. / � �.� Mayor ofd t , e City of E1 Segundo i California ATTES . `� City Clerk (SEAL) -2- JOA:0- 110688.F STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ) I, Ronald L. Hart, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1128 is a full, true correct original of Ordinance No. 1128 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE BY DELETING SECTION 5.08.012 IN ITS ENTIRETY AND AMENDING SECTIONS 5.08.020, 5.08.520, 5.08.570, 5.08.585 AND 5.08.670 OF CHAPTER 5.08, TITLE 5 OF THAT CODE, WHICH CHAPTER RELATES TO A BUSINESS LICENSE TAX. which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor or said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 29th day of November, 1989 and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Anderson, Clutter, Dannen, West and Mayor Jacobson NOES: None ABSENT: None I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1128 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City of El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within said City and that the same was so published therein on the following day, to wit: r `e Ronald L. Hart City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California C 1;