Resolution 5636 RESOLUTION NO. 5636
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 02
MIA s BEACH, FLORIDA, that it is deemed to the best interest of
said City to secure the passao.e, at the 1943 session of the State
Legislature, of a bill entitled,
"AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX UPON ADMISSION
TICKETS SOLD BY ANY LICENSEE OF THE FLORIDA
STATE RACING CO kiSSION OF ANY RACE TRACK
LOCATED 'WITHIN TE BOUNDARIES OF SAID CITY
OF MIAMI BEACH; FIXING THE A OUNT OF SAID
SPECIAL TAX AND IMPOSING UPON SAID LICENSEE
THE BURDEN OF ADDING SAID SPECIAL SCIAL TAX TO THE
AMOUNT OF EACH AND EVERY ADMISSION TICKET
SOLD AND OF COLLECTING TSE SAME AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR THE FAILURE SO TO DO, AND
PROVIDING FURTER, THAT THIS SPECIAL TAX
SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE TAXES AUThORIZED
IN SECTION 10, OF CHAPTER 14832, ACTS OF TE
LEGISLATURE, LAVu3 OF FLORIDA FOR 1931, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
B'1 IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution
and of said bill be furnished to the Hon. Ernest R. Graham, the
Hon. Marshall C. Wiseheart, the Hon. C. W. Peters, and the Pion.
R. B. Gautier, Jr. , members of the State Legislature from Dade
County, and that they each be respectfully requested to see that
a bill, substantially in accordance with said copy be introduced
and passed at said session.
FASbED and adopted thisllth day of March, A. D. 1943.
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Mayor
ATTEST;
City Clerk
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED:
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX UPON ADMiSSION
TICKETS SOLD BY ANY LICENSEE OF THE, FLORIDA
STATE RACING COMIAISSION OF ANY RACE TRACK
LOCATED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID CITY
OF MIAMI BEACH; FIXING THE AMOUNT OF SAID
SPECIAL TAX AND IMPOSING UPON SAID LICENSEE
THE BURDEN OF ADDING SAID SPECIAL TAX TO THE
AMOUNT OF EACH AND EVERY ADMISSION TICKET
SOLD AND OF COLLECTING THE SAME AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR THE FAILURE SO TO DO, AD
PROVIDING FURTHER, THAT THIS SPECIAL TAX
SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE TAXES AdTHORIZED
IN SECTION 10, OF CHAPTER 14832, ACTS OF THE
LEGISLATURE, LAS OF FLORIDA FOR 1931, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED, BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. That the city of Miami Beach, Florida, a Municipal
Corporation, is hereby authorized to levy a special
tax of ten (1C ) cents upon each admission ticket sold by any
licensee of the ?lorida State Racing Commission licensed to
operate a race meeting which is located within the boundaries
of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, upon the following conditions :
(a) Provided however, that the City shall be pro-
hibited from levying said special tax upon any ticket or pass
issued to any official, agent, or employee of any racing association
owning or operating a race twack in the City of Miami Beach, or to
any representative of the press, or any owner, trainer, or any one
employed by any owner or trainer, neither shall said tax be collected
upon any tickst or pass issued to any person employed in any capacity
upon the premises of any such licensee; said licensee shall have
the right to issue free passes or tickets marked "tax paid" or "tax
free" to any person provided said licensee assumes liability for the
payment of the special tax provided herein.
(b) 4ny licensee of the State Racing Commission, owning
and operating a race track in the City of Miami Beach, is hereby re-
quired to levy and collect the tax upon admissions and admission
tickets provided for in this Act.
(c) Any licensee of the State Racing Commission failing
to assess or collect the tax aforesaid, shall be liable to the City
of Miami Beach upon each admission sold to the bxtent of the tax, and
upon the aggregate amount of tickets sold with exceptions hereinbe-
fore designated in the aggregate amount of taxes herein provided and
said licensee shall be required to make aseni-monthly accounting, of
the number of tickets sold, an admissions to said race meeting, and
shall, on the 1st and 16th of each month, pay to the City of Miami
Beach, all taxes so assessed and collected, and at the end of each
race meeting shall make a full and complete accountinz to the City
of Miami Beach, and pay all balance, if any due to said City, at
the time of making such final accounting.
(d) Any licensee failing to assess and collect said tax
and pay over the same to the City of Miami Beach as herein provided,
shall be cited for hearing before the Florida State Racing Commission,
and if found guilty by said Racing Commission, shall have their li-
cense to conduct race meetings cancelled, until such time as said
tax is paid to said City of Miami Beach.
(e) All the terms and provisions of this Act shall
not be construed in limitation of, but in addition to any and all
other taxes and license provisions of the State of Florida, im-
posed upon a licensee of the Florida State Racing Commission, and
it is hereby declared to be the specific intention of the Legisla-
ture in this Act to supersede and override the limitations against
municipal corporations as provided for in Section 10, of Chapter
14832, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1931.
SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act
be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its becoming
a law.
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