[Amended 5-19-2009]
A.
There is hereby levied and there shall be collected
a license tax for the Town from the owner of each motor vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer normally garaged, stored or parked in the Town. No
license shall be required of a person exempt by state law from the
purchase of such license. [Note: The requirements for a vehicle license
are suspended effective April 15, 2010.]
B.
A person moving into the Town shall have 15 days within
which to purchase the license required hereby. No vehicle duly licensed
by another municipality shall be required to be licensed in the Town
until the license of such municipality shall expire.
[Amended 5-19-2009]
The license tax provided for in this Part 2
on automobiles, pickup trucks, passenger vehicles, private or commercial,
and buses shall be $10. The license tax provided for in this Part
2 on tractors, trailers and semitrailers shall be $20. A charge of
$1 shall be made for the transfer of licenses from one vehicle to
another, and a fee of $0.50 shall be charged for the issuance of a
duplicate license. [Note: Effective April 15, 2010, no license tax
shall be charged or required for automobiles, pickup trucks, passenger
vehicles, private or commercial, buses, tractors, semitrailers, motorcycles
and trailers.]
The terms "trailer" or "semitrailer," as used
in the foregoing provisions of this Part 2, shall not include trailers
or semitrailers designed for use as living quarters or one- or two-wheeled
trailers with a body length not exceeding nine feet attached to the
owner's motor vehicle and used only for carrying property belonging
to such owner or trailers designed for hauling boats. Such types of
trailers and semitrailers are hereby excluded from the operation of
this Part 2. The term "tractor" shall not include a farm tractor.
Under this Part 2, 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 decals shall be issued therefor.
Licenses provided for in this Part 2 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 Department 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 Part 2 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 Part 2 and refunds of the same shall be computed in accordance
with the identical computations of the state on state licenses.
[Amended 5-19-2009]
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. [Note: The requirements of the vehicle license
tax and the display of a decal are suspended effective April 15, 2010.]
[Amended 6-18-1991 by Ord. No. 1991-1]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this Part 2 shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100, and
each day of violation of this Part 2 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.
