No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle or trailer
upon any street or highway of this City, unless such motor vehicle
or trailer has properly displayed a valid license plate or plates
or temporary permit issued to the lawful owner of the vehicle by the
Department of Revenue of the State of Missouri, except that any person
who is a non-resident of the State of Missouri may operate or park
any motor vehicle or trailer upon any street or highway of this City,
provided the motor vehicle or trailer has been duly registered for
the current year in the State, country, or other place of which the
owner is a resident, provided that at all times such motor vehicle
or trailer is being operated or parked upon the streets or highways
of this City, the valid license plate or plates or temporary permit
is properly displayed on such vehicle or trailer.
[Ord. No. 3191 § 1, 1-19-2016]
No motor vehicle or trailer shall be operated on any highway
of this City unless it shall have displayed thereon the license plate
or set of license plates issued by the Director of Revenue and authorized
by Section 301.140, Missouri Revised Statutes. Each such plate shall
be securely fastened to the motor vehicle in a manner so that all
parts thereof shall be plainly visible and reasonably clean so that
the reflective qualities thereof are not impaired. License plates
shall be fastened to all motor vehicles except trucks, tractors, truck
tractors or truck-tractors licensed in excess of twelve thousand (12,000)
pounds on the front and rear of such vehicles not less than eight
(8) nor more than forty-eight (48) inches above the ground, with the
letters and numbers thereon right side up. The license plates on trailers,
motorcycles, motor-tricycles and motor-scooters shall be displayed
on the rear of such vehicles either horizontally or vertically, with
the letters and numbers plainly visible. The license plate on trucks,
tractors, truck tractors or truck-tractors licensed in excess of twelve
thousand (12,000) pounds shall be displayed on the front of such vehicles
not less than eight (8) nor more than forty-eight (48) inches above
the ground, with the letters and numbers thereon right side up. The
license plate or plates authorized by Section 301.140, Missouri Revised
Statutes, when properly attached, shall be prima facie evidence that
the required fees have been paid.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle or trailer on which
there is displayed on the front or rear thereof any other plate, tag
or placard bearing any number except the plate furnished by the Director
of Revenue or the placard herein authorized, and the official license
tag of any municipality of this State, nor shall there be displayed
on any motor vehicle or trailer a placard, sign or tag bearing the
words "license lost", "license applied for", or words of similar import,
as a substitute for such number plates or such placard.
No person shall show, exhibit, display or have in possession
for the purpose of sale any motor vehicle bearing or displaying thereon
any number or license plates, except those of the dealer or owner
so displaying said motor vehicle; provided however, that where the
motor vehicle is placed on consignment with a dealer by the owner
thereof, there may be displayed a number or license plate issued to
the owner thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate in this City
a motor vehicle or trailer required to be registered as provided by
law, unless a certificate of ownership has been issued.
It shall be unlawful for any person to buy or sell in this City
any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of this State
unless at the time of delivery thereof there shall pass between the
parties a certificate of ownership with an assignment thereof as provided
in Section 301.210, Missouri Revised Statutes, as amended, and the
sale of any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of
this State, without the assignment of such certificate of ownership,
shall be fraudulent and void.
[Ord. No. 3191 § 2, 1-19-2016]
Upon the transfer of ownership of any motor vehicle or trailer,
the certificate of registration and the right to use the number plates
shall expire and the number plates shall be removed by the owner at
the time of the transfer of possession, and it shall be unlawful for
any person other than the person to whom such number plates were originally
issued to have the same in his/her possession whether in use or not;
except that the buyer of a motor vehicle or trailer who trades in
a motor vehicle or trailer may attach the license plates from the
traded-in motor vehicle or trailer to the newly purchased motor vehicle
or trailer. The operation of a motor vehicle with such transferred
plates shall be lawful for no more than thirty (30) days or no more
than ninety (90) days in the dealer is selling the motor vehicle under
the provisions of Section 301.213, RSMo.
Upon the sale of a motor vehicle or trailer by a dealer, a buyer
who has made application for registration, by mail or otherwise, may
operate the same for a period of fifteen (15) days after taking possession
thereof, if during such period the motor vehicle or trailer shall
have attached thereto, in the manner required by Section 301.130,
Missouri Revised Statutes, number plates issued to the dealer. Upon
application and presentation of satisfactory evidence that the buyer
has applied for registration, a dealer may furnish such number plates
to the buyer for such temporary use. In such event, the dealer shall
require the buyer to deposit the sum of ten dollars fifty cents ($10.50),
to be returned to the buyer upon return of the number plates as a
guarantee that said buyer will return to the dealer such number plates
within fifteen (15) days.
No dealer shall advise any purchaser of a motor vehicle or trailer
that such purchaser may drive such a motor vehicle or trailer without
compliance with the foregoing license requirements.
A.
No
owner of a motor vehicle registered in this State shall operate the
vehicle, or authorize any other person to operate the vehicle, upon
the streets or the alleys of this City, unless the owner maintains
the financial responsibility as required in this Section. Furthermore,
no person shall operate a motor vehicle owned by another with the
knowledge that the owner has not maintained financial responsibility
unless such person has financial responsibility which covers his/her
operation of the other's vehicle.
For purposes of this Section, the term "financial responsibility" shall mean the ability to respond in damages for liability on account
of accidents occurring after the effective date of proof of said financial
responsibility, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of
a motor vehicle, in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
because of bodily injury to or death of one (1) person in any one
(1) accident, and, subject to said limit for one (1) person, in the
amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) because of bodily injury
to or death of two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and
in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) because of injury
to or destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident.
B.
Proof
of financial responsibility may be shown by any of the following:
1.
An insurance identification card issued by a motor vehicle insurer
or by the Director of Revenue of the State of Missouri for self-insurance.
A motor vehicle insurance policy, a motor vehicle liability insurance
binder, or receipt which contains the name and address of the insurer,
the name and address of the name insured, the policy number, the effective
dates of the policy and a description by year and make of the vehicle,
or at least five (5) digits of the vehicle identification number or
the word "Fleet" if the insurance policy covers five (5) or more motor
vehicles, shall be satisfactory evidence of insurance in lieu of an
insurance identification card.
2.
A certificate of the State Treasurer of a cash or security deposit
according to Section 303.240, Missouri Revised Statutes.
3.
A surety bond according to Section 303.230, Missouri Revised Statutes.
C.
Proof
of financial responsibility shall be carried at all times in the insured
motor vehicle or by the operator of the motor vehicle if the proof
of financial responsibility is effective as to the operator rather
than to the vehicle. The operator of the motor vehicle shall exhibit
the proof of financial responsibility on the demand of any Peace Officer
who lawfully stops such operator while that Officer is engaged in
the performance of the duties of his/her office.
D.
Any
person who violates any provisions of this Section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five
hundred dollars ($500.00) for each and every violation.