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• ORDINANCE N0 . r'~ c~ AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN ADDITIONAL PENALTY IN CONNECTION WITH DELINQUENT TAXES OWED TO THE CITY OF LA PORTE (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE "TAXING UNIT") BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. It shall be the declared policy of the Taxing Unit that the expenses of collecting delinquent taxes owed to the Taxing Unit now an unfair .burden on the general revenue and the taxpayers who pay on time, should be borne instead by the delinquent properties and their owners who are responsible for causing such expenses; and to effectuate this policy, the Taxing Unit hereby orders that such costs be charged against the delinquent properties and their owners as "Additional . Penalty" as herein provided, and the same are hereby made a part of the tax liens against the delinquent property to which each such costs is attributable. Section 2. The Taxing Unit's designated Attorney with whom the Taxing-Unit has contracted pursuant to Section 6.30 of the Property Tax Code, VTCA, shall assist, by suit or otherwise, in the collection of delinquent taxes owed to the Jurisdiction, and to recover such costs, Jurisdiction shall be entitled to and shall collect an Additional Penalty of fifteen percent (15~) of the delinquent taxes, penalty and interest due on each delinquent property at the time of collection, before or after suit and/or foreclosure sale, provided further that as to payment of taxes delinquent and owing from the most current year, the Additional Penalty as to that year shall be added as • specified above at the maximum of fifteen percent (150) commencing July 1 of the calendar year next succeeding the year for which taxes are due. Section 3. If any provision of the Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or application, and to this end provisions of the Ordinance • Ez