[R.O. 2012 §300.030; Ord. No. 2025; CC 1981 §§82.010 — 82.050; Ord. No. 3063 §300.030, 2-7-1996; Ord. No. 300.030 §300.030, 9-8-1997; Ord. No. 3143, 3-16-2004; Ord. No. 3225 §1, 7-26-2010]
A. 
License Imposed. Each motor vehicle, whether an automobile, motorcycle, motor scooter or other vehicle requiring a State license plate, garaged or housed within the limits of the City of Bloomfield or owned by any person or persons, firm or corporation residing in or having a place of business within the limits of the City of Bloomfield shall be required to purchase an annual license as follows:
[Ord. No. 2021-011, 7-19-2021]
1. 
A motor vehicle license for each motor vehicle shall be ten dollars ($10.00).
2. 
As of March sixteenth (16th), any resident of the City of Bloomfield who is the owner of a motor vehicle as referenced above and from which payment of the annual City motor vehicle license has not been received by the City, the owner of the vehicle or the operator of such vehicle will be subject to being summoned to court and fined as determined by the Municipal Court.
B. 
Duration Of License. The annual license fee provided for in the above Subsection shall be paid to the City Collector by the owner of the motor vehicle on or before the first (1st) day of January in each year and shall be for the period of January first (1st) to December thirty-first (31st).
C. 
Personal Property Tax Payment A Prerequisite. No person, firm or corporation shall be issued a motor vehicle license by this City who shall not first have paid personal property taxes in full that may be due and owing this City or give evidence that no such tax was due.
D. 
Before any official of this City shall issue a motor vehicle license by this City to such person, firm or corporation, the City Official shall first check to ascertain if the applicant has paid his, her or its personal property taxes in full to the date of its issuance or that no such tax was due.