17-20 Tax Abatement Coronavirus Emergency Ordinance

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Filed in Clerk's Office BILL NO. 17-20 APR 0 8 2020 DAWN M.,TONES ORDINANCE NO. 10717-20 I CITY CLERK,SOUTH BEND,IN AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ADDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 6, SECTION 2-84.17 TO THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE TO SUSPEND MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 2-84.13,2- 84.14,AND 2-84.15 FOR SIXTY (60) DAYS DUE TO THE DECLARATION OF A LOCAL DISASTER EMERGENCY RESULTING FROM CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT Governor Eric J. Holcomb, in response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19"), issued Executive Order 20-08 on March 23, 2020 and Executive Order 20-18 on April 6, 2020. Those Executive Orders, with specified exceptions, ordered all individuals currently living in the State of Indiana to stay home or their place of residence. Similarly,the Mayor of South Bend, on March 19, 2020 declared a local disaster emergency. This Ordinance addresses the filing requirements set forth in Sections 2-84.13, 2-84.14, and 2-84.15 due to the declaration of a local disaster emergency resulting from COVID 19. Section 2-84.13 requires the Department of Community Investment to send, on or before April 15 of each year, paperwork to the recipients of tax abatements, who must return the completed paperwork to the Department of Community Investment on or before May 15. Section 2-84.14 sets forth a fine for the failure of a tax abatement recipient to return such paperwork on or before May 15. Section 2-84.15 requires the Department of Community Investment to provide a report to the Common Council on or before June 15, which report includes information received in the paperwork from the recipients of tax abatements. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, as follows: Section I. Chapter 2, Article 6, Section 2-84.17 is added to the South Bend Municipal Code to read as follows: 2-84.17 Delay of Certain Municipal Code Requirements As a result of any Stay at Home or similar order by whatever name issued by the Governor of Indiana or the declaration of a local disaster emergency by the Mayor of South Bend, the requirements Sections 2-84.13, 2-84.14, and 2-84.15 shall be delayed for a period of sixty (60) days, such that the Department of Community Investment shall send required paperwork to any tax abatement recipient on or before June 15 and such tax abatement recipients shall return such paperwork to the Department within thirty(30) days thereafter, and the Department shall subsequently provide its annual summary to the Common Council on or before August 15.