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(1) The restoration of the rate of the tax to a rate that is no higher than that set by <br />this Ordinance, if the City Council has acted to reduce the rate of the tax; <br />2) An action that interprets or clarifies the methodology of the tax, or any <br />defmition applicable to the tax, so long as such interpretation or clarification <br />(even if contrary to some prior interpretation or clarification) is not inconsistent <br />with the language of this Ordinance; <br />3) The establishment a class of persons that is exempt or excepted from the tax or <br />the discontinuation of any such exemption or exception (other than the <br />discontinuation of an exemption or exception specifically set forth in this <br />Ordinance); and <br />4) The collection of the tax imposed by this Ordinance, even if the City had, for <br />some period of time, failed to collect the tax. <br />SECTION 4. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, <br />or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable by a <br />court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining portions of this Ordinance shall <br />nonetheless remain in full force and effect. The people hereby declares that they would <br />have adopted each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this <br />Ordinance, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, <br />clauses, phrases, or portions of this Ordinance be declared invalid or unenforceable. <br />SECTION 5. Ratification of Prior Tax. The People of the City of San Leandro <br />hereby ratify and approve the past collection of the Telephone Users Tax and the Cable <br />Television Users Tax under Chapter 2-4 of the San Leandro Municipal Code as it existed <br />prior to the effective date of this Ordinance. <br />SECTION 6. Execution. The Mayor is hereby authorized to attest to the <br />adoption of this Ordinance by the voters of the City by signing where indicated below. <br />I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was PASSED, APPROVED <br />and ADOPTED by the people of the City of San Leandro, California voting on the 4th <br />day of November, 2008. <br />19 <br />