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111.2308 REFUSAL TO PRODUCE RECORDS.
The refusal to produce books, papers, records and Federal income tax returns, or the refusal to submit to such examination by any employer or persons subject or presumed to be subject to the tax or by any officer, agent or employee of a person subject to the tax or required to withhold tax or the failure of any person to comply with the provisions of this chapter or with an order or subpoena of the Administrator authorized hereby shall be deemed a violation of this chapter, punishable as provided in Section 111.1505.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66.)
111.2309 CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF INFORMATION.
(a) Any information gained as the result of any returns, investigations, hearings or verifications required or authorized by this chapter shall be confidential except for official purposes, or in accordance with proper judicial order, or where the taxpayer has signed a written waiver allowing the Tax Administrator to release non-financial information dealing strictly with questions of residency. Any person divulging such information in violation of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a first degree misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in Section 101.99 of the Administrative Code. Each disclosure shall constitute a separate offense.
(b) In addition to the above penalty, any employee of the City who violates the provisions of this section relative to the disclosure of confidential information shall be guilty of an offense punishable by immediate dismissal.
(Ord. 00-50. Enacted 7-24-00.)
111.2310 TAXPAYER REQUIRED TO RETAIN RECORDS.
Every taxpayer shall retain all records necessary to compute his tax liability for a period of five (5) years from the date his return is filed, or the withholding taxes are paid.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66.)
111.2311 AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR CENTRAL COLLECTION FACILITIES.
The City of Shaker Heights having already entered into an agreement for the establishment of a Regional Council of Governments pursuant to Ordinance No. 71-45, which Council has organized a municipal tax collection agency known as "Regional Income Tax Agency", the Board of Trustees of such Regional Income Tax Agency is authorized to administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter as the agent of the City of Shaker Heights, and the duties and authority of the Administrator hereunder may be performed by the Board of Trustees of such agency through the Administrator of such agency. Provided, however, the Administrator of the agency shall have no authority to abate penalties or interest provided for in Sections 111.1501 and 111.1502.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66; Ord. 71-125. Amended 11-22-71.)
BOARD OF REVIEW
111.2501 BOARD OF REVIEW ESTABLISHED.
A Board of Review, consisting of the Mayor or a person designated by him, the Director of Law or an Assistant Director of Law designated by him, and a member of Council to be elected by that body, is hereby created. The Board shall select, each year for a one-year term, one of its members to serve as Chairman and one to serve as Secretary. A majority of the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. The Board shall adopt its own procedural rules and shall keep a record of its transactions. Any hearing by the Board may be conducted privately and the provisions of Section 111.2309 with reference to the confidential character of information required to be disclosed by this chapter shall apply to such matters as may be heard before the Board on appeal.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66.)
111.2502 DUTY TO APPROVE REGULATIONS AND TO HEAR APPEALS.
All rules and regulations and amendments or changes thereto, which are adopted by the Administrator under the authority conferred by this chapter, shall be approved by the Board of Review before the same become effective. The Board shall hear and pass on appeals from any ruling or decision of the Administrator and, at the request of the taxpayer or Administrator, is empowered to substitute alternate methods of allocation.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66.)
111.2503 RIGHT OF APPEAL.
Any person dissatisfied with any ruling or decision of the Administrator which is made under the authority conferred by this chapter may appeal therefrom to the Board of Review within thirty (30) days from the announcement of such ruling or decision by the Administrator, and the Board shall, on hearing, have jurisdiction to affirm, reverse or modify any such ruling, decision or any part thereof.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66.)
OTHER PROVISIONS
111.2701 DECLARATION OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this chapter, or any tax against any individual, or any of the several groups specified herein is found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall affect only such clause, sentence, section or part of this chapter and shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or other parts of this chapter. It is hereby declared to be the intention of Council of the City of Shaker Heights that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
(Ord. 66-135. Enacted 12-27-66.)
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