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Sec. 35-176. Severability.
<br />If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this code or any part thereof
<br />is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision, and the decision not to enforce such, shall not affect
<br />the validity of the remaining portion of this code or any part thereof. The city council hereby declares that it would
<br />have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of
<br />the fact that any one (1) or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be
<br />declared unconstitutional.
<br />(Ord. No. NS-2436, § 2, 8-4-00)
<br />Sec. 35-177. Notice of changes to utility users tax code.
<br />If a tax under this code is added, repealed, increased, reduced, or the tax base is changed, the tax
<br />administrator shall follow the notice requirements of state Public Utilities Code Section 799. Prior to the effective
<br />date of the code change, the service supplier shall provide the tax administrator with a copy of any written
<br />procedures describing the information that the service supplier needs to implement the code change. If the service
<br />provider fails to provide such written instructions, the tax administrator, or his or her agent, shall send, by first
<br />class mail, a copy of the code change to all collectors and remitters of the city's utility users taxes according to the
<br />latest payment records of the tax administrator.
<br />(Ord. No. NS-2436, § 2, 8-4-00)
<br />Sec. 35-178. Effect of state and federal reference/authorization.
<br />Unless specifically provided otherwise, any reference to a state or federal statute in this article shall mean
<br />such statute as it may be amended from time to time, provided that such reference to a statute herein shall not
<br />include any subsequent amendment thereto, or to any subsequent change of interpretation thereto by a state or
<br />federal agency or court of law with the duty to interpret such law, to the extent that such amendment or change
<br />of interpretation would require voter approval under California law, or to the extent that such change would result
<br />in a tax decrease (as a result of excluding all or a part of a utility service, or charge therefor, from taxation). Only to
<br />the extent voter approval would otherwise be required or a tax decrease would result, the prior version of the
<br />statute (or interpretation) shall remain applicable; for any application or situation that would not require voter
<br />approval or result in a decrease of a tax, provisions of the amended statute (or new interpretation) shall be
<br />applicable to the maximum possible extent.
<br />To the extent that the city's authorization to collect or impose any tax imposed under this article is expanded
<br />or limited as a result of changes in state or federal law, no amendment or modification of this article shall be
<br />required to conform the tax to those changes, and the tax shall be imposed and collected to the full extent of the
<br />authorization up to the full amount of the tax imposed under this article.
<br />( Ord. No. NS-2860, § 11, 12-9-14 )
<br />Sec. 35-179. No increase in tax percentage or change in methodology without voter approval;
<br />amendment or repeal.
<br />This article of the Santa Ana Municipal Code may be repealed or amended by the city council without a vote
<br />of the people. However, as required by Chapter XIIIC of the California Constitution, voter approval is required for
<br />any amendment provision that would increase the rate of any tax levied pursuant to this article. The people of the
<br />City of Santa Ana affirm that the following actions shall not constitute an increase of the rate of a tax:
<br />City PiNPPAIRgil RFP No. 23-%-5 206 PaN 196
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