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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 3 AND 5 OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED:
"AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CLASSIFYING AND LICENSING OF VEHICLES
PLYING THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND PRESCRIE
A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE", WHICH WAS ADOPTED
TRE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON DECEMVER 30, 1937.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADU CAH, KENTUCKY:
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SECTION 1. That Sections 3 and 5 of the ordinance bearing the
title quoted above, which was adopted on December 30, 1937, be and
the same are hereby repealed, amended and reordained so that said
sections as amended and reordained shall read as follows:
"Section 3. The license tax required to be paid hereunder is
as follows:
For each motorcycle ....................................
$1.00
For each and every passenger vehicle ...................
5.00
For each truck operated in the City of Faducah for
business or for hire, and for the purpose of raising
revenue for exercising regulation over said motor
truck and for policing said city, and regulating
the traffic therein and keeping in repair the public
ways thereof, there is hereby levied and imposed,
and ordered to be collected from all persons, firms,
or corporations operating said motor trucks or
trailers loading or unloading in the City of Paducah,
Kentucky, a license tax or privilege license on said
truck and trailers as follows:
Motor trucks and trailers of one ton or less
capacity .............................................
5.00
Motor trucks and trailers of more than one ton
capacity:
First ton..........................................
5.00
For each additional one-half ton or fraction
thereof ............................................ 1.50
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When trailers are attached to trucks or motor vehicles and used
for business, or for hire, in Paducah, the ton capacity or load of
such trailer shall be added to the ton capacity or load of said
truck for the purpose of classifying said trucks into tonnage classll
The City Treasurer is authorized, empowered and directed to collect
the license tax provided herein, which tax shall be payable; on and
after the first day of January in each year. If such license tax
is not paid on or before the first day of March in each year, there
shall be added thereto a penalty of 10% of the license tax due, and
an additional penalty of 2% shall be added for each month or fracti
of a month after March 31 that the license tax remains unpaid. If
a person acquires and operates or causes to be operated after Marel
1 in any calendar year any motor vehicle subject to a license tax
under this ordinance without first paying such license tax to the
City Treasurer, such person shall pay a penalty of 10% of the lic-
ence tax due, plus an additional penalty of 2% per month for each
month of delay or fraction thereof after the first 30 days of dela;
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The City Treasurer is directed and required to collect such penal-
ties from any person who owes and fails to pay such a license tax
when due. The license certificate or sticker issued by the City
Treasurer shall be displayed in the lower right corner of the
windshield on the licensed vehicle.
"Section 5. Any person, corporation, firm, company, or any
organization or group of persons, who violates any provision of
this ordinance shall be fined not less than Five ($5.00) Dollars,
nor more than Fifty ($50.00) Dollars. and each day this ordinance
is so violated shall constitute a separate offense."
SEC TION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
on and after January 1, 1949.
Mayor' o m
Comm ad'ione-r ( aul Abell)
Passed by the Board of Commissioners November 23, 1948
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, November 23, 1948.