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Following are the rates charged:

• Mobile homes - 7 percent of the gross rent paid, not to exceed $20 a month.
• Hotel/motel occupancy - 8 percent of the room rate.
• Telephone service - 8 percent of monthly charges on non-exempt properties.
• Electricity usage - $0.0053 per kWh of electricity delivered to non-residential, non-exempt retail customers. The rate is $0.00375 per kWh of electricity delivered to large manufacturing customers.
• Real property transfers - 1.5 percent of the purchase price (with an exclusion on the first $22,000 of residential transfers) and recordation taxes of $2.50 per $500 of value (or portion thereof).
• 911 Emergency Telephone Fee - $0.75 per month applied to the telephone bill.