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If the Judge in Columbus rules that the house bill's tax provisions are legal and do not violate our home rule authority, than those provisions would go into effect as early as the date he rules in the case. House Bill 49 requires that municipalities have these taxing provisions enacted by the time of the effectiveness of the House Bill in order to avoid the scenario where businesses could claim that they are not obligated to pay taxes for as long as the City hasn't these tax provisions. So lots of municipalities right now, in view of the litigation, in view of the potential for an effective date of the House Bill are enacting these pieces of legislation now in order to have something on the books to preserve our taxing authoring, whether those taxes are going to be filed locally or at the State. The substitute version before you tonight; appreciate you taking this up on the floor, makes our new tax provisions effective, if you were to adopt this tonight, only on the effective date of the State Law. That is to say, if the Judge lifts the stay, and makes the State law; lawful; binding on municipalities then our new Code would go into effect. If the Judge does not to do that, with the language I've given you tonight, our new Code would not go into effect. So your passage of this ordinance tonight, does not make the ordinance effective, it only becomes effective on the State Code becoming lawful ... Hope you adopt tonight to avoid that specter of losing our ability to tax business. ON the motion to substitute - Yeas: Anderson, Bullock, George, Litten, O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader, Nays None. Motion adopted. Ordinance substituted. Motion by Mr. O'Leary, seconded by Mr. Anderson, to suspend the rules requiring this ordinance to be read on three separate days and adopt Ordinance 4 -18 on second reading as substituted. Yeas: Anderson, Bullock, George, Litten, O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader, Nays None. Motion adopted. Ordinance 4 -18 adopted as substituted.