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AN ORDINANCE M -ENDING SECTION 3 OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED:
"AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CLASSIFYING AND LICENSING OF VEHICLES
PLYING THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND PRESCRIBING
THE PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE", WHICH WAS ADOPTED
BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON DECEMBER 30, 1937, AND AMENDED OII
JULY 2$, 1953
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COI- IISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Section 3 of an ordinance containing the
title quoted above, which was adopted on December 30, 1937, and amended
on July 28, 1953, be further amended and reordained so that said section
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 Paducah for
business or for hire, and for the purpose of raising
revenue for exercising regulation over said motor
trucks 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
trucks 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:
Firstton -----------------------------------------------
5.00
For each additional one-half ton or fraction
thereof------------------------------------------------
1.50
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 class.
The City Treasurer is authorized, empowered and directed to collect
the license tax provided herein, which tax shall be payable on or
before the first day of March in each year. If such license tax is
not paid on or before said date of I -larch 1st, there shall be added
thereto a penalty of 32.00. The tax upon any vehicle acquired and
operated on or after March 1 in any calendar year shall be due and
payable at the end of thirty (30) days from the date it was acquired.
If such license tax is not paid during such thirty (30) day period,
there shall be added thereto a penalty of YP'2.00. The license
certificate or sticker issued by the City Treasurer shall be dis-
played in the lower right corner of the windshield on the licensed
vehicle."
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911 ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
on and after January 1, 1958.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners December 21, 1957
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, December 21, 1957.