(a) An additional annual license tax is hereby levied, by authority of Ohio R.C. 4504.172, upon the operation of motor vehicles on the public roads and highways within the City, for the purpose of paying the cost and expenses of enforcing and administering the tax provided for in this section and for the planning, construction, improving, maintaining and repairing public roads, highways and streets; maintaining and repairing bridges and viaducts; paying for the Municipal corporation's portion of costs and expenses of cooperating with the Department of Highways in the planning, improvement, and construction of State highways; paying the Municipal corporation's portion of the compensation, damages, costs and expenses of planning, constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing roads and streets, paying debt service charges on notes or bonds of the Municipal corporation issued for such purposes; purchasing. erecting and maintaining street traffic signs and markers; purchasing, erecting and maintaining traffic lights and signals; and to supplement revenues already available for such purposes.
(b) Such tax shall provide additional revenue for the purposes set forth in Ohio R.C. 4504.06 and to supplement revenue already available for such purposes.
(c) The tax shall be at a rate of five dollars ($5.00) per motor vehicle on each and every motor vehicle in the district of registration of which, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4503.10, is in the City. As used in this section, the term "motor vehicle" means any and all vehicles included within the definition of motor vehicle in Ohio R.C. 4501.01 and 4505.01.
(d) The tax imposed by this section shall apply to and be in effect for the registration year commencing January 1, 1988, and shall continue in effect and application during each registration year thereafter.
(Ord. 77-87. Passed 8-5-87.)