ORDINANCE  O-08-08-05-01

 

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL SALES AND SERVICE TAX AND A USE TAX FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF HUMBOLDT, MINNEHAHA COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA.

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF HUMBOLDT, MINNEHAHA COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA as follows:

 

Section 1.              PURPOSE.  The purpose of this article is to provide additional needed revenue for the Municipality of Humboldt by imposing a municipal retail sales and use tax pursuant to the powers granted to the municipality by SDCL 10-52-1 entitled Uniform Municipal Non-Ad Valorem Tax Law, and acts amendatory thereunto.

 

Section 2.              EFFECTIVE DATE AND ENACTMENT OF TAX.  From and after the first day of January, 2006, there is hereby imposed as a municipal retail occupational sales and service tax upon the privilege of engaging in business a tax measured by 2% on the gross receipts of all persons engaged in business within the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Humboldt, MINNEHAHA County, South Dakota, who are subject to the South Dakota Retail Occupational Sales and Service Tax, SDCL 10-45 and acts amendatory thereto. 

 

Section 3.              USE TAX.   In addition there is hereby imposed an excise tax on the privilege of use, storage and consumption within the jurisdiction of the municipality of tangible personal or services purchased from and after the first of January, 2006, at the same rate as the municipal sales and service tax upon all transactions or use, storage and consumption which are subject to the South Dakota Use Tax Act, SDCL 10-46, and acts amendatory thereto.

 

Section 4.              COLLECTION.  Such tax is levied pursuant to authorization granted by SDCL 10-52 and acts amendatory thereto, and shall be collected by the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation in accordance with the same rule and regulations applicable to the State Sales Tax and under such additional rules and regulations as the Secretary of Revenue and Regulation of the State of South Dakota shall lawfully prescribe.

 

Section 5.              INTERPRETATION.  It is declared to be the intention of this ordinance and the taxes levied hereunder that the same shall be interpreted and construed in the same manner as all sections of the South Dakota Retail Occupational Sales and Service Act, SDCL 10-45 and acts amendatory thereto and the south Dakota Use Tax, SDCL 10-46 and acts amendatory hereto, and that this shall be considered a similar tax exempt for the same rate thereof to that tax.

 

Section 6.              PENALTY.  Any person failing or refusing to make reports or payments prescribed by this ordinance and the rules and regulations relating to the ascertainment and collection of the tax herein levied shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than $200.00 or imprisoned in the municipal jail for thirty (30) days or both such fine and imprisonment.  In addition, all such collection remedies authorized by SDCL 10-45, and acts amendatory thereto, and SDCL 10-46, and acts amendatory thereto are hereby authorized for the collection of these excise taxes by the Department of Revenue and Regulation.

 

Section 7.              SEPARABILITY.  If any provision of this ordinance is declared unconstitutional or the

application thereof to any person or circumstances held invalid the constitutionality of the remainder of the ordinance and applicability thereof to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

 

Section 8.              ADMINISTRATIVE ACT.  This ordinance is adopted to amend the existing sales tax ordinances in order to comply with House Bill 1002 and Senate Bill 76 passed during the 2003 South Dakota Legislative Session.  Any changes to the existing sales tax ordinance are administrative and therefore not subject to referendum.

 

Section 9.              REPEAL.  Any ordinance inconsistent with or in conflict with this ordinance is hereby repealed.

 

Dated this ___ day of _________ 2005.

 

                                                                                Allen Schmeichel

                                                                                Mayor

 

 

 

First Reading        ________            

Second Reading   ________            

Published              ________            

Effective Date       ________            

 

 

ATTEST:

 

Kristie Ellis

Municipal Finance Officer                                                  (SEAL)