(a) 
Partial payments.
(1) 
The tax collector for the city, or any entity with which the city has contracted to collect taxes on its behalf, may enter into an agreement with a person delinquent in the payment of taxes, for the payment of the tax, penalties and interest in installments.
(2) 
All agreements authorized by subsection (1) must be in writing, must bear interest at the minimum statutory rates and must not extend beyond thirty-six (36) months.
(b) 
Penalty.
(1) 
The tax collector of this jurisdiction is hereby directed to cause to be mailed, as expeditiously as possible, notices to all delinquent taxpayers, where addresses are available, of the additional penalty to be imposed, as hereinafter set forth, on all taxes delinquent as of this date.
(2) 
The tax collector is directed to annually mail notices during the month of May to all current year delinquent taxpayers advising them of the additional penalty, as hereinafter set forth, to be imposed as of July 1 on all unpaid current year delinquent taxes.
(3) 
Effective thirty-one (31) days after the tax collector has mailed the hereinabove referenced notices, with respect to taxes delinquent for 1988 and prior years, an additional penalty of fifteen percent (15%) of the taxes, penalty and interest shall be incurred; furthermore, taxes becoming delinquent during 1990 and thereafter shall not incur this additional penalty until July 1 of the year in which they become delinquent.
(1994 Code, art. 1.1000)
Goods in transit, as defined by the Texas Tax Code, section 11.253(a)(2), as amended by Senate Bill 1, enacted by the 82nd Texas Legislature in Special Session, shall remain subject to taxation by the city.
(Ordinance 1433 adopted 11/15/11)