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Amending Chapter 310 of the Legislative Code to provide relief to certain license types in the form of a one-time reduction of certain license fees and a one-time extension of the due date for license fees.
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On March 13, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued Executive Order 20-10 Declaring a Peacetime Emergency and Coordinating Minnesota’s Strategy to Protect Minnesotans from COVID-19” pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 12.31, Subd. 2.
On March 15, 2020, Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter issued an Emergency Declaration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic” pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 12.29; which the City Council consented to on March 17, 2020.
WHERAS, on April 24, 2020, Mayor Carter signed Emergency Executive Order 2020-8 in an effort to ease the financial burden and aid in the recovery of Saint Paul businesses impacted by Minnesota Governor Walz’s Executive Orders that limited the ability of certain businesses to continue operations, provided a 25% one-time reduction of annual license fees, and a one-time ninety-day extension of the due date for payment of the renewal license fees for licenses with renewal dates between April 24; and
WHEREAS, under St. Paul Leg. Code 13.06, Mayor Carter’s Emergency Executive Order will expire at the end of forty (40) days after its effective date or at the end of the declared local emergency, whichever occurs first; and
WHEREAS, in Emergency Executive Order 2020-8 Mayor Carter requested that the Saint Paul City Council take immediate action by Ordinance to extend this Emergency Executive Order for 1 year so all impacted businesses will receive both a 25% reduction of their next annual license fee, and businesses with annual license fees due prior to August 1, 2020 will receive a ninety-day extension of the next due date of those fees; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Saint Paul does hereby ordain:
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Section 310.09 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended ...
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