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-15- (1) to collect a tax on personal property that has been delinquent more than four years; or (2) to collect a tax on real property that has been delinquent more than 20 years. (b) A tax delinquent for more than the limitation period prescribed by this section and any penalty and interest on the tax is presumed paid unless a suit to collect the tax is pending. The City's tax lien shall be prior to all other claims, and no gift, sale, assignment or transfer of any kind, or judicial writ of any kind, can ever defeat such lien. All persons or corporations owning or holding personal property or real estate in the City of San Marcos on the first day of January of each year shall be liable for all municipal taxes levied thereon for such year. The City of San Marcos is hereby made liable for all of said taxes, whether the same be due upon personal or real property, or upon both. ADDITIONAL RECO~1ENDATIONS I. In order to assure compliance with the Master Plan, it is recommended that the Master Plan be adopted as an ordinance. II. It is recommended that the City Council consider adopting rules which are in keeping with the intent of an orderly yet open forum for the Council deliberations. The following rules from Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure in the section on governmental bodies, are suggested. Presiding Officer: "The presiding officer in a governmental body is usually a member and has all the rights and duties of the other members. He has the right to introduce motions or proposals and to speak and vote on them while he is presiding. Since each member of these bodies often is elected or appointed to represent a segment of opinion or a geographical area, the group represented by the presiding officer would be depr.ived of representation if he did not have the same rights as other members. " p. 239