HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 38 - 11/1/1957 - VEHICLE TAX, ESTABLISHINGOrdinance No. 33
AN ORDINANCE establishr•.
veiricle tax.
WE IT Ox;L1,1 UNIED bir the President and Hoard of 'Trustees o£ t :c
Village of Elk Grove 'VMage„ Cook County, Illinois:
Section 1. Definition . The terra, "motor vehicle" is ursed in this
chapter and shall be construed to include automobiles, locomobiles and
all other vehicles propelled otherwi,;c than by muscular power, except
traction engines and road rollers, the cars of electric and steam railways
and other motor vehicles running only upon rails or tracks but nothing in
this chapter shall be construed to affect bicycles or tricycles or other
vehicles propelled exclusively by muscular power.
Section 2. Licenses. Every owner or operator of a motor vehicle
or motor bicycle who resides within the vil?;age shall pay each year to the
Clerk a tax or license fee for the use of each motor vehicle or motor
bicycle used on any public street or alley in the village, as is hereinafter
provided.
Section 3. Fees.
Motor Bicycle and Scooter .........................$
3.00
Motorcycle .........................$.5.00
Passenger cars ................ ...........,,...
$.5.00
Trucks - having a gross weight of not
more than 10,000 pounds,in:luding
thea wmight of Vehicle a.lkV, 7$dc43dalun-1
I ox d...........................................x;10.00
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t''.1.11 14 000 710", f.o3 T'?iC:i'E' ':Than
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AI additional, fee of one dollar shall be paid is" the application for
liCe�n:.e xis not made until after Mareei let of any year.
Section 4. Dealers licensee The license plates issued to dealers
in motor vehicles for vehicles held for sale and. used only for demonstrations
may be transferred to any other vehicle so held and used by the same
dealer; provided that such dealers shall procure one license for each
motor vehicle so held by him at any one time during the year.
Section s. Application - issuance. Every owner or operator of a
motor vehicle or motor bicycle desiring a license for such motor vehicle
shall file an application with the clerk, setting forth the name and addre ss
of the applicant and a description of the vehicle for which the license is
desired. Upon payment of the fee herein provided the Clerk shall issue or
cause to be issued a license which shall be attested by him authorizing the
use of such vehicle within the village up_til the expiration of the license..
Section 5- Time of payment - license year. Such license fee shall
be clue and payable annually in advance on the first day of January of each
year and the license shall be for one year; provided that if purchase of
vehicle is made caix months after the start of the license year „ then upon
application beim; made to the Clerk, a license shall be issued for the
remainder of the year upon payment of one-half of the fee herein required.
Section T_ _Piatez, Each applicant upen paymant of the fee, shall
"Da ,;dives; a license plate, or =s°"i,ndslaield sticker without charge, of such
doe„ign ane. material air runs be approa;ed. by the President and Board of
T'.'3t,69tnesu 'P:inch plate 51:5:?.?.1 bri ia:>.'2nG-`d in a prominent and V%Siblaa pbw,ne
il!:'a front of th2 Vehicle '3t fil,l, tiYF#::: f` 'Ovat ;t -13 operat4=d in i.lw ., N11age;
38. ti°.s".i27F'7? I-uti-"aef. on the lti"rm:4'
side a.f the \iFiYi€ 3 gif3lY
Section do Use of hands, All revanre dcx-ivecl from such lic�=ae
i:�: Y'9 iia `'xc•ept los' the CV351' 09 iGOU'111i3 thu Hcevlaer: i.k?t.3 pl..a.,te F7 a,sid collecting
the fees„ shall he kept as a separate fund and used only fox paying the coEi
of street or. alley 1•c;�?airs and i.7:provements and a sura riot'1.c E•rwed
Z5°10 for salaries; of 'traffic policemen.
Section 9• Penalty. Any Berson, firm or corpur acios viol i ':s
any provision of this chapter shall be fined not iess thaix %ive 3ollars nor
more than two hundred dollars for each offense, and a separate o`fens,;
shall be deemed committed on each day during or on lvhich a violoti.on
c^curs or continues.
Section 13 When effective. This ordinance shall he in full force.
and effect from and anter its passage_ approval and publication according;
to lav and thi, ordinance shall become effective January 1, 1958.
PASSED: this lst day of November, A. D. 057.
APPROVED: this 1st day of November. A . D 1957.
ATTEST:
Margaret C. Petrie
Village Cler,z
_ Charles d. Hodlmair
President
the lbth !lay of November
A. D. f �i o 7 .
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