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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1988
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<br />WHEREAS, in the case of telephone companies, charges for long
<br />distance telephone calls shall not be included in gross receipts
<br />for purposes of license taxation; now, therefore,
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville,
<br />Virginia, in regular session assembled held on November 8, 1988,
<br />that the City's Business, Professional, Occupational License Tax
<br />Ordinance, 1983, as amended, be amended so that Section2 under
<br />Article II thereof shall read as follows:
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<br />2. PUBLIC UTILITIES.
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<br /> (a) Any person, firm, or corporation who shall engage in
<br />the business of furnishing heat, light and power, whether by
<br />means of electricity or gas, in the City shall pay a license
<br />tax equal to one-half of one percent of the gross annual
<br />receipts accruing from sales to the ultimate consumer in the
<br />City, provided, however, that there shall be deducted any sum
<br />or sums paid by such person, firm or corporation to the City as
<br />license taxes except motor vehicle license taxes.
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<br /> (b) Any telegraph or telephone company doing business in
<br />the City, for the privilege of doing business therein, shall
<br />pay a license tax equal to one-half of one percent of the gross
<br />annual receipts accruing from sales to the ultimate consumer in
<br />the City, provided, however, that char~oos for long distance
<br />calls shall not be considered receipt f such business in the
<br />City.
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<br />Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council authorized City
<br />Manager Brown to execute, on behalf of the City, a lease agreement with the law
<br />firm of Young, Haskins, Mann, & Gregory, 60 West Church Street, Martinsville,
<br />Virginia, lessor, by which lessor's adjoining private parking lot will be
<br />developed by the City in conjunction with proposed development of City property
<br />as a motor vehicle off-street parking facility, pursuant to a parking plan
<br />dated January 30, 1987, as prepared by the City's Engineering Division. For
<br />the improvements to be constructed by the City on the private property, lessor
<br />will reimburse the City for the cost thereof. In addition, of the twenty-four
<br />parking spaces to be provided on the private property section, lessor will have
<br />sole use of eighteen of such spaces, at no rent; nor will there beany charge
<br />to the City for the property being leased; however, the construction,
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