A.
There is hereby levied and there shall be collected
a license tax for the Town from the owner of every motor vehicle or
semitrailer, as specified in this section, for the privilege of operating
the same upon the streets of the Town. The motor vehicles to be covered
by this article are as follows:
(1)
Motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers owned by
the residents of the Town and intended to be operated over the streets
of the Town.
(2)
Motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, though
stored outside the Town, when operated over the streets of the Town
in connection with the conduct of or the furtherance of a business
whose principal location is within the Town; provided, however, that
this section shall not apply to persons who live outside of the Town
and operate a vehicle within the Town solely in order to go to and
from their place of work or business, and provided, further, that
no vehicle duly licensed by the incorporated municipality of its residence
shall be required to be licensed under this section.
(3)
Motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, though
stored outside the Town, when operated over the streets of the Town
on as many as 16 days in any thirty-day period during the year in
connection with the conduct or furtherance of a business whose principal
location is not within the Town; provided, however, that no vehicle
duly licensed by the incorporated municipality of its residence shall
be required to be licensed under this section.
B.
A person moving into the Town shall have 15 days within
which to purchase the license required hereby.
C.
No license shall be required of any person exempted
by state law from the purchase of such license.
D.
No vehicle duly licensed by another municipality shall
be required to be licensed in the Town until the license of such municipality
shall expire.
A.
The license tax provided for in this article on automobiles
of the private passenger type, all motorcycles of each and every type,
and pickup trucks, if less than one ton rating and without dual wheels
shall be $20.
B.
The license tax provided for under this article on
trucks, trailers, semitrailers, and all other types of motor vehicles
required to be licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia shall be $20.
No license shall be required on house, utility or other trailers or
semitrailers designed for use with private passenger cars.
A.
The term "trailer" or "semitrailer" as used in the
foregoing provisions of this article 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 article.
B.
Members of the Mineral Volunteer Fire Department and
of the Mineral Rescue Squad who live within the Town of Mineral may
obtain one free automobile license tag each year for any vehicle registered
in the name of such member or his or her spouse.
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.
