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ORDINANCE NS-2129 PAGE 2 371 Sec. 18-603. payment of bills and penalties. (a) Date payment due. Bills for the charges made pursuant to this article, and penalties, if any, are due and payable at the department of finance in the city hall on the date of billing and become delinquent fifteen (15) days after the date of such billing, (b) Penalties. A penalty of ten (10) per cent shall be assessed on all unpaid bills thirty (30) days after the billing date. No penalty, however, will accrue until thirty (30) days after the date that the bill has been deposited with the united states Postal service, properly addressed with prepaid postage affixed thereto. SECTION 2: That Article V of Chapter 39 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, and sections 39-80 through 39-83 within it, are hereby repealed. SECTION 3: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The city Council of the city of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 4: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and 2 I I