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provisions of this ordinance. The City Clerk shall make and transmit to the Council quarterly, a detailed report of any sums so waived or compromised with the reasons therefor. SECTION 17. SG~IEDULES FOR PAY}lENT OF TAX. The Council, by resolution, shall adopt rules prescribing methods and schedules for the collection and payment of the tax. Such schedules shall be so determined as to facilitate collection of this tax at the same time that the retailer collects the tax imposed under the 0alifornia Sales and Use Tax Law and so as to produce an average tax return of one-half of one per cent (1/2 of 1%) on all Ourchases subject to the use tax. SECTION 18. SUIT FOR TAX. All taxes hereby levied shall be payable to the City Clerk and any civil suit for the collection thereof may be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction in the state of California, and the City Attorney of said town shall prosecute the action. SECTION 19. RESALE CERTIFICATE. The City Clerk may at his option accept a State of California Resale Certificate as evidence that any sale is not a sale for use or consumption in the Town of Pleasanton, or he may in his discretion require an affidavit from the seller setting forth such information respecting such sale as he deems necessary to determine the nature of such sale. SECTION 20. DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS. All monies collected under and pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance shall be deposited and paid into the General Fund of the Town of Pleasanton. SECTION 21. DIVULGING OF INFORMATION FORBIDDEN. No officer or employee of the Town of Pleasanton having an administrative duty under this ordinance shall make known in any manner whatever the business affairs, operations, or information obtained by an investigation of records and equipment of any retailer or any other person visited or examined in the discharge of official duty, or the mount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particulars thereof, set forth or disclosed in any return, or permit any return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person. However, the Council may, by resolution, authorize examination of the returns by Federal or State officers or employees or by the tax officers of this or any other town if a reciprocal arrangement exists. Successors, receivers, trustees, executors, administrators, assignees, and guarantors, if directly interested, may be given information as to the items included in the measure and .amounts of any unpaid tax or amounts of tax required to be collected, interest and nenalties. SECTION 22. FALSE AND PRAUDULENT RETURNS. No person required to make. render, sign or verify any report under the provisions of this ordinance, shall make any false or ~audulent return, with intent to defeat or evade the determination of any amount due and required to be paid hereunder. SECTION 23. FAILURE TO MAKE RETURN OR FURNISH DATA. No retailer or other person shall fail or refuse to furnish any return required to be made or fail or refuse to furnish a supplen'.e~:t~.! return or other data required by the City Clerk, or render a false or fraudulent return. -5-