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ORDINANCE NO. JO
AN ORDINANCE FIXING AND IMPOSING AN ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT
TO BE PAID THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS BY GENERAL
TELEPHONE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST AND THE METHOD OF
PAYMENT THEREOF, DECLARING AN gMERGENCY AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
WHEREAS, General Telephone Company of the Southwest (hereafter referred
to as "General") is duly authorized to construct, operate, maintain and extend
a telephone system and to sell, furnish, transmit and distribute telephone
service in the City of Jacksonville, Arkansas (hereafter referred to as "City "),
to the City of Jacksonville, Arkansas and to the citizens residing therein;
• WHEREAS, General is now providing telephone service to the City and its
inhabitants and is occupying the streets, alleys and other public property of the
City of Jacksonville, Arkansas, pursuant to said authority;
WHEREAS, the City requires additional revenues for payment of increased
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salary requirements for City employees and other municipal functions and service
and desires to increase the payment of special taxes, charges and assessments
paid by General, pursuant to the right of the City to levy such additional
assessments, and •
WHEREAS, the City recognizes and accepts the purposes and results of .
decisions of the Arkansas Public Service Commission and the Arkansas Supreme
Court requiring that the charges for service by a utility to customers in the
City be adjusted to adequately reflect any additional amounts of assessments
imposed by the City in excess of a standard level paid in other municipalities to
avoid discrimination among customers of the utility;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS, THAT:
Section 1. The sale, furnishing, transmission and distribution of telephone
service by General within the City is hereby declared to be a special privilege
and for such privilege General shall pay to the City, in addition to current
payments being made to the City in the amount of 4% of gross revenues, an
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additional sum of Forty Thousand and no /100 Dollars ($40,000.00), payable
in approximately equal quarterly installments beginning March 15, 1974.
Section 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 3. It is hereby found by the City Council that there is an urgent
need for additional revenues for the City. Therefore, an emergency is declared,,
to exist, and this ordinance being necessary for the preservation and advancement
of the public peace, health, safety and welfare, shall be in full force and effect
from and after the date of its approval, retroactive to January 1, 1974.
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APPROVED this /' day of January, 974. f
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