Under this article, in the case of a combination
of a tractor-trailer or tractor-semitrailer, each unit constituting
a part of such combination shall be licensed as a separate vehicle
and separate license plates or decal shall be issued therefor.
Licenses provided for in this article shall
run from the first day of April each year through the 31st day of
March next succeeding, and each owner shall be allowed an additional
grace period for procuring a renewal license identical with such additional
time as may be allowed by the State Division of Motor Vehicles for
procuring renewal state licenses. New license plates or windshield
decals for the approaching year may be purchased and used on and after
the 15th day of March.
No motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer shall
be licensed under this article by the Town unless and until the applicant
for such license shall have produced satisfactory evidence that all
personal property taxes upon such motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer
to be licensed shall have been paid which have been properly assessed
against the applicant by the Town; provided, however, that proof of
the payment of the prior year's personal property taxes assessed by
the Town against the applicant shall be satisfactory evidence of the
payment of the personal property tax upon the motor vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer as herein required.
Proration of the license tax provided for in
this article and refunds of the same shall be computed in accordance
with the identical computations of the state on state licenses.
A license tag, plate, windshield decal or other
emblem shall be furnished by the Town Treasurer to each licensee,
which tag, plate, windshield decal or other emblem shall be displayed
on the front or rear of the licensed vehicle or on the lower right-hand
corner of the windshield of the licensed vehicle. Failure to properly
display a license tag, plate, windshield decal or other emblem shall
subject the owner of the vehicle to the same penalty as the failure
to obtain the license.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor, and each day
of violation of this article shall be considered a separate offense.
The payment of such fine as may be imposed shall not relieve such
person of the duty to pay the license tax.