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City the means, facilities, and opportunity for such examinations and investigations as are hereby authorized. SECTION 13. Violations. Any person who shall willfully fail to make a return by this ordinance, or who shall fail to pay the tax after written demand for payment, or who shall fail to remit the taxes collected or any penalty or interest imposed by this ordinance after written demand for such payment, or who shall refuse to permit the City's authorized agents to examine the books, records, and papers under his control, or who shall willfully make any incomplete, false, or fraudulent return shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 14. Use of Proceeds. Ninety-five (95) percent of the proceeds obtained from the collection of taxes pursuant to this ordinance shall be used in accordance with Minnesota Statutes Section 469.190 as the same may be amended from time to time to fund a Convention & Visitors Bureau for the purpose of marketing and promoting the City as a tourist and/or convention center. The City may use up to five (5) percent of the proceeds obtained hereunder to defray the costs and expenses of collection and administration of such tax. SECTION 15. Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB). Subd. 1. Appointment of Members. The Mayor, with approval of the City Council, shall appoint eight members to serve on the Minnesota Metro North Tourism, dba Twin Cities Gateway Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB). The CVB, a non-profit corporation, is comprised of multiple communities in the northern portion of the Minneapolis -St. Paul metropolitan area, herein referred to as the Member Cities. The CVB Board of Directors shall be proportionately represented, based on the percentage of lodging fee contributions contributed by the Member City. Each Member City shall have at least one Board Member. For each additional 10% or portion thereof, above the initial 10% of the overall contribution by Member Cities, the City of Ramsey will be entitled to one additional representative. The first Board Member appointed by the City of Ramsey shall be an elected or appointed municipal representative. The second Board Member selected by the City of Ramsey will be from Ramsey's lodging community. Any additional representatives shall be selected at Ramsey's discretion. The term of any Board Member appointed or selected by Ramey shall immediately cease, without further action, upon the date of termination of membership of Ramsey in the CVB. The Convention & Visitors Bureau shall be responsible for marketing and promoting tourism in the City of Ramsey and, in the event, the City associates with a township through a joint powers agreement, tourism in that township. Subd. 2. Joint Powers Agreements. The City is authorized to enter into joint powers agreements pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 471.59 for the collection, administration, or disposition of the proceeds of any lodging tax imposed by a 5