§19-1301. Real Estate Taxes. [132]


(1) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred (100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of one (1) dollar and ninety-seven and one-half (97½) cents for the year 1974 and thereafter.

(2) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred (100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three (3) dollars and twenty-seven and one-half (27½) cents for the year 1977 and thereafter.[133]

(3) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred (100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three (3) dollars and forty-seven and one-half (47½) cents for the year 1981 and thereafter.[134]

(4) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred (100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three (3) dollars and ninety (90) cents for the year 1983 and thereafter.[135]

(5) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred (100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three (3) dollars and fifty and one-half (50½) cents for the year 1985 and thereafter; provided, that, if the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania fails to provide legislation enabling City Council to enact Bill No. 131, introduced April 26, 1984, providing for the imposition of Business Privilege Taxes for Fiscal Year 1985, or if City Council fails to adopt Bill No. 131 for Fiscal Year 1985, the rate of tax shall be three (3) dollars and seventy-five and one-half (75½) cents for the year 1985 and thereafter.[136]

(6) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred ($100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three dollars seventy-four and one-half cents ($3.74½) for the year 1989; Provided that, in the event that a court of competent jurisdiction enters a final order from which all appeals have been exhausted, determining that City Council lacked the authority to impose this rate for the year 1989 the rate shall revert to three dollars and fifty and one-half cents ($3.50½) for the year 1989.[137]

(7) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred ($100) dollars of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three dollars seventy-four and one-half cents ($3.74½) for the year 1990 and thereafter.[138]

(8) A tax is hereby levied on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessed value of taxable real property returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the preceding year at the rate of three (3) dollars and forty-seven and four-tenths (47.4) cents for the year 2003 and thereafter.[139]