PUBLIC NOTICE – WHITE DEER CITY ORDINANCE NO. 2025-05192025 JUNE 2, 2025

Section 5-4. telecommunications services tax.
(a) Authority to Levy. A tax is hereby authorized and imposed on all receipts from the sale of telecommunications services within the city, as is provided for by state law. For purposes of this section, the sale of telecommunications services is consummated at the location of the telephone or other telecommunications device from which the call or other communication originates. If the point of origin cannot be determined, the sale is consummated at the address to which the call or other communication is billed.
(b) Rate of Tax. The rate of tax imposed by this section shall be the same as the rate imposed by the city for all other local sales and use taxes as authorized by the legislature of the State of Texas.
(c) Notice to comptroller. The City Secretary shall forward to the Comptroller of the State of Texas by certified or registered mail a copy of this Ordinance along with a copy of the minutes of the City Council’s vote and discussion regarding this Ordinance.
(d) All provisions of any ordinance in conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent they are in conflict; but such repeal shall not abate any pending prosecution for violation of the repealed ordinance, nor shall the repeal prevent a prosecution from being commenced for any violation if occurring prior to the repeal of the ordinance. Any remaining portions of said ordinances shall remain in full force and effect. Further, the tax provided for hereunder shall not serve as an offset to, be in lieu of or in any way reduce any amount payable to the City pursuant to any franchise, street use ordinance, charter provision, statute, or without limitation by the foregoing enumeration, otherwise payable by any provider of telecommunications service; it being the express intent hereof that all such obligations, impositions, and agreements of every kind and nature shall remain in full force and effect without reduction or limitation hereby.
(e) If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, and phrases be declared unconstitutional.
(Ordinance no. 2025-05192025 June 2, 2025).