[Ord. No. 2012-07 §§1
— 8, 3-13-2012]
A. Each
owner of a motor vehicle residing in the City of Appleton City shall
pay an annual motor vehicle tax of five dollars ($5.00) for each motor
vehicle that he/she owns as of the first (1st) day of January of each
year, which shall be valid from the first (1st) day of January to
the thirty-first (31st) day of December. Said tax shall be paid annually
on the first (1st) day of January in each year in the same payment
as personal property taxes, however, a penalty of one percent (1%)
per month will be assessed if not paid by January thirty-first (31st).
B. A "resident" of the City of Appleton City, Missouri, for the
purpose of this Article is hereby defined to be any person, firm,
association, or corporation domiciled within the City of Appleton
City, Missouri, a citizen of Appleton City, Missouri, and/or any person
that is temporarily living in the City of Appleton City, Missouri,
or any person, firm, association, or corporation that is carrying
on a business in the City of Appleton City, Missouri.
C. A "motor vehicle" is hereby defined to be any self-propelled
vehicle not operated exclusively upon tracks, except farm tractors
and motorcycles.
D. It shall
not be required that any evidence of payment of the annual motor vehicle
license tax be displayed on any vehicle for which the payment of said
tax is required.
E. No resident of the City of Appleton City that owns a motor vehicle used exclusively outside the City shall be required to pay any motor vehicle license tax as set forth in Subsection
(A). The fact that the motor vehicle is used exclusively outside the City may be shown by an affidavit of the owner of the motor vehicle for the purpose of securing a State registration certificate without producing a receipt for municipal license taxes.
F. Dealers
in motor vehicles shall not be required to pay a license tax on each
motor vehicle owned by them, but shall annually pay to the City Collector
such amount as will be sufficient to pay the regular annual license
of five dollars ($5.00) on the maximum number of motor vehicles that
they intend to operate at any one time.
G. A motor
vehicle shall not be subject to a license tax if the same is not used
or operated.
H. Any person
in violation of any of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by
a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00) for each offense.