HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - MC-10-1005 - 04/26/2010 - INCREASE HOTEL MOTEL TAXOrdinance No MC-10- 1005
An Ordinance Amending the Municipal Code Chapter 23
Taxation, increasing the Hotel/Motel Tax, in the City of McHenry
WHEREAS, the City of McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois, is a
home rule municipality as contemplated under Article VII, Section 6, of the
Constitution of the State of Illinois, and the passage of this Ordinance constitutes
an exercise of the City's home rule powers and functions as granted in the
Constitution of the State of Illinois.
]VOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF MCHENRY, as follows:
SECTION 1: That Chapter 23 TAXATION, Article ➢ . HOTEL/MOTEL
TAX shall be amended as follows:
Section 23-2. Tax Imposed.
A tax shall be imposed upon persons engaged in the business of renting,
letting or leasing rooms in a hotel at the rate of five percent (5.0% ) of the
,gross rental receipts from such renting, leasing or letting, excluding,
however, from gross rental receipts, the proceeds of such renting, leasing
or letting to permanent residents of that hotel.
SECTION 2: If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, sentence or
provision of this ordinance shall be adjudged by any Court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, invalidate, or
nullify the remainder thereof, which remainder shall remain and continue in full
force and effect.
SECTION 3: All ordinances or parts thereof in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 4: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its
passage, approval and publication in pamphlet form (which publication is hereby
authorized) as provided by law.
PASSED and APPROVED this 26Tx day of APRIL , 2010.
Voting Aye:
SANTI, GLAB, SCHAEFER, BLAKE, WIMMER, PETERSON, CONDON.
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Voting Nay: NONE —
NONE
Not Voting: _
Abstained: NONE
Absent: NONE
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ATTEST:
City Clerk",,