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2. Provide the signage required by Section 3.34.100; 3. Train staff in the implementation and administration of the tax; 4. Improve or alter infrastructure to allow for the implementation, collection, and administration of the tax; 5. Collect, account for, and remit the tax to the City; 6. Develop and display informational signage to inform customers about the tax, encourage the use of reusable bags, or promote the recycling of plastic bags; and 7. Improve infrastructure to increase plastic bag recycling. G. Beginning January 1, 2023, the City shall apply a credit toward the disposable bag tax imposed by this Chapter in the amount of the carryout bag fee collected by the retailer pursuant to C.R.S. § 25-17-505, as may be amended, such that the amount collected by the retailer for each disposable bag remains twenty- five cents ($0.25) per bag. Section 3. Section 3.34.050.A of the Louisville Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows (words to be deleted stricken; words to be added underlined): Sec. 3.34.050. Licensing; filing of returns; recordkeeping. A. Every person with a duty to collect the tax imposed by this Chapter shall obtain a license as set forth in Section 3.20.402 of this Code to collect the tax, report such taxes collected on forms prescribed by the Finance Director, and remit such taxes to the City quarterly in accordance with the required reporting period for sales taxes and file such returns as provided in Section 3.20.106 of this Code. Section 4. If any portion of this ordinance is held to be invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares it would have passed and approved this ordinance and each part hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part be declared invalid. Section 5. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Municipal Code of the City of Louisville by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify, or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture, or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision, and each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings, and prosecutions for the enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture, or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any Ordinance No. 1814, Series 2021 Page 3 of 4