View Amendment Current Amendment: 1 to Bill 1122 The COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS proposes the following Amendment No. 1 to S. 1122 (COUNCIL\BBM\1122C001.BBM.SA16):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:

/ SECTION      1.      Section 4-10-930(A) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 3 of 2009, is amended to read:

     "(A)      Subject to the requirements of this article, a municipality may impose in the municipality a fee not to exceed one percent for not more than ten years for the purposes provided in Section 4-10-970 by:
           (1)      an ordinance adopted by a supermajority of the municipal council which must be at least two-thirds of the members of a municipal council; or
           (2)      the approval of a majority of qualified electors voting in a referendum held pursuant to this section called by a majority of the members of the municipal council."

SECTION      2.      Article 9, Chapter 10, Title 4 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

     "Section 4-10-980.      The fee authorized in this article may be renewed and imposed within a municipality in the manner prescribed pursuant to Section 4-10-930(A). The referendum on the question of reimposition of the fee must not be held earlier than within the calendar year which is two years before the calendar year in which the fee then in effect is scheduled to terminate. Notwithstanding Section 4-10-930(D) and (E), any reimposition of the fee is effective immediately upon the termination of the fee previously imposed. Revenues from the reimposition must be expended for the same purposes as set forth in this article, and the provisions of Section 4-10-970(A)(2) apply immediately upon reimposition."

SECTION      3.      This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.            /

Renumber sections to conform.
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