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• AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND REORDAINING SECTIONS 25-58 AND 25-61 OF ARTICLE III OF CHAPTER 25, AND SECTIONS 30-98, 30-99 AND 30-101 OF ARTICLE IV, CHAPTER 30, OF THE CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE, 1990, AS AMENDED, RELATED TO THE REAL ESTATE AND RENTAL TAX RELIEF PROGRAMS. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia: 1. That Sections 25-58, 25-61, 30-98, 30-99 and 30-101 of the Charlottesville City Code, 1990, as amended, are hereby amended and reordained as follows: ARTICLE III. RENTAL RELIEF FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED PERSONS. Section 25-58. Qualifications for grant. Grants pursuant to this article shall be made to persons complying with the following provisions: (1) The applicant has paid rent for his dwelling within the city during the grant year and was a resident of the city on December thirty-first of the grant year; (2) The applicant, or his spouse if they reside together, is sixty-five (65) years of age or older, or permanently and totally disabled as of December thirty-first of the grant year; (3) The dwelling for which the rental relief grant is sought was occupied as of December thirty-first of the grant year as the sole dwelling place of the applicant. (4) The gross combined income during the grant year from all sources of such applicant and all relatives of the applicant living in such dwelling does not exceed the sum of fifteen tliei...a i de"^L-s ($15,999) twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000); provided, that the first seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) of any income, (a) received by the applicant, or the applicant's spouse if they reside together, and classified as permanent disability compensation, or (b) received by any applicant who is at least sixty-five (65) years of age, is permanently and totally disabled, and can show that he or she did receive permanent disability compensation for at least twenty-four (24) consecutive months immediately prior to his or her sixty-fifth birthday, shall be excluded from such total; and provided, that the first four thousand dollars ($4,000) of income of each relative other than spouse of such applicant who is living in such dwelling shall be excluded in such total. If the applicant has been a resident of the city for less than the full grant year, the gross combined income for such year and the maximum allowable income shall be prorated for the period of actual residency.