File #: ORD-56:2028    Version: 1 Name: Motor vehicle tax
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/6/1956 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 2/6/1956
Title: AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE REGISTRATION OF, AND PROVIDING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE TAX: REPEALING PRIOR ORDINANCES: DECLARING AN EMERGENCY: AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (NOTE: THIS ORDINANCE WAS AMENDED BY ORD-74:2373 ON OCTOBER 22, 1974)
Indexes: Taxes
Related files: ORD-74:2373, ORD-55:2049, MIN-56:003
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AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE REGISTRATION OF, AND PROVIDING FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE TAX: REPEALING PRIOR ORDINANCES: DECLARING AN EMERGENCY: AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (NOTE: THIS ORDINANCE WAS AMENDED BY ORD-74:2373 ON OCTOBER 22, 1974)
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SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS. The term motor vehicle as used in this Ordinance shall be construed to mean and include any automobile, automotive truck, track-tractor, motorcycle, and all other vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power, except and excluding motor bicycles, traction engines and road rollers, bicycles, and other motor vehicles running only upon rails or tracks.

The term owner shall be deemed to be the person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or the person who has an immediate right of possession in the event of a conditional sales contract or mortgage.

SECTION 2: APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION. Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation, owning or operating a motor vehicle in the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, specifically including herein all such persons, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation maintaining an established place of business in said city and operating any vehicle out of such place of business, shall before they operate said vehicles on the street of the City of Jonesboro, file in the office of the City Collector of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, an application setting forth the name and address of the owner, and in the event of a firm or partnership the name and style of the business together with the names and addresses of the partners, and in the event of a corporation its name together with the principal officers and their addresses, also a brief description of the vehicle to be registered, including the name of the make, factory motor number, style of the vehicle, the serial number, the Arkansas State license number issued for the current year and the purpose for which it will be used, upon a black to be furnished by such City Collector.

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