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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1981 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Vice Mayor William C. Cole, Jr., presiding in the absence of Mayor Barry A. Greene (who was away from the City), was held Tuesday, November 10, 1981, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members (with the exception of Mayor Greene) being present, viz., William C. Cole, Jr., Vice Mayor; L. D. Oakes; Henry C. Reed; and Francis T. West. After the invocation and preceding consideration of its regular order of business, Council presented a token of appreciation to Dr. David G. Glendy for his services as a member of the Piedmont Regional Mental Health & Mental Retardation Services Board (i.e., Chapter 10 Board), from which Board Dr. Glendy recently resigned. Council unanimously approved the minutes--as recorded--of its regular meeting held October 27, 1981. In response to a written request from Mr. George A. Read, of 117 Mulberry Court, seeking the wail/ins of penalty and interest assessed against him for ....is .L:esidential property (at 117 Mulberry Court) for the tax year 1964, because--until recently--he was never notified that City real estate taxes assessed against this property (which he acquired February 16, 1964) had never been paid and were past due, and upon the findings in this case and the recommendation by City Attorney Worthy, and with Mr. Read agreeing to pay said taxes, Council directed that the penalty and interest thereon be waived, noting that the failure by Mr. Read to pay said taxes was not Mr. Read's fault. In a companion action, and as authority for the han~lir.g of similar cases in the future, Council unanimously adopted the following ordinance: WHEREAS, Section 58-847 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended) provides that the governing body of any city may provide by ordinance for the waiver of the penalty and interest for the failure to pay a tax if such failure was not in any way the fault of the taxpayer; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session held this tenth day of November, 1981, that the penalty and interest for failure to pay local real estate taxes be, and the same hereby are, waived if such failure was not in any way the fault of the taxpayer; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that any taxpayer seeking hereunder a waiver of the penalty and interest for failure to pay a real estate tax shall have the burden of showing that such failure was not in any way the fault of such taxpayer. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following ordinance (placed on first reading October 27, 1981) exempting heating fuels for domestic con- sumption from the City's 1% local retail sales-use tax: