(A) Any person residing within the village, or any corporation, partnership, association or other business entity having a place of business in the village, shall pay to the village each year a tax or license fee and obtain a vehicle license, as hereinafter provided, for the use of each motor vehicle owned or leased by the person or business and used on any public street or highway in the village during more than 30 days in the year, or principally garaged or stored in the village. Registration with the office of the Secretary of State from an address within the village shall be deemed prima facie evidence that the vehicle requires a village vehicle license under this section, unless rebutted by a showing that the vehicle is located or used in the village less than 30 days in the year.
(B) Application for the license required under this section shall be made upon a form prescribed by the village, setting forth the name and address of the applicant, a description of the vehicle and any other information as may be required on the form. The license required under this section shall be issued only to persons residing within the village or corporations, partnerships, associations or other business entities having a place of business in the village for the use of the motor vehicle specified in the application that is used on any public street or highway in the village more than 30 days in the year or principally garaged or stored in the village. Upon payment of the license fee provided in this section, the Village Clerk shall issue or cause to be issued a license authorizing the use of the motor vehicle within the village until the expiration of the license on the next succeeding June 30.
(C) (1) The license fees established in the annual fee ordinance shall be payable with respect to each license year commencing on July 1 of each year and ending on the next succeeding June 30; provided, however, that in any instance where a vehicle comes into possession of the owner after the expiration of the first six months of the license year or the vehicle is otherwise first required to be licensed after the expiration of the first six months of the license year, the license fee shall be one-half of the annual fee prescribed for the vehicle.
(2) The license fee shall be due and payable annually in advance of the first day of the license year or, where applicable, on the day that the vehicle is first required to be licensed during the license year. An additional license fee equal to one-half of the applicable license fee shall be payable with respect to any vehicle not licensed as herein provided within 15 days following the first day of the license year or, where applicable, the day the vehicle is first required to be licensed during the license year. For purposes of determining fees applicable to a particular motor vehicle, gross weight and other licensing factors shall be determined in the manner prescribed by statute for determining those factors for the purpose of fixing state license fees.
(D) Green vehicle discount. If qualified, an applicant for a license provided for in subsection (C) above shall be entitled to pay a discounted license fee as established in the annual fee ordinance based on his or her rating or score in the most recent United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Green Vehicle Guide, as follows: vehicles manufactured after model year 2006 rated SmartWay™ by USEPA, or for model years 2000 through 2005, that received scores of at least six or higher on both the USEPA Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Scores, and a combined score of at least 13.
(E) In administering the discounts provided for in subsection (D) above, the Village Manager is authorized to promulgate application forms related thereto and require the submission of such information as may be reasonably necessary to ascertain the applicant’s or vehicles, as the case may be, qualifications for the discount. It is the obligation of the vehicle license applicant to supply information as may be reasonably required by the Village Manager to determine eligibility for these discounts, and failure to submit the information shall disqualify the applicant from receiving a discount.
(F) When a vehicle licensed hereunder is sold or disposed of during the license year for which the license is issued and the former owner desires to have a duplicate license issued for a new or substitute vehicle, he or she shall remove the sticker or license plate, as the case may be, from the vehicle sold or disposed of and present same to the village with an application for a duplicate license upon a form prescribed by the village setting forth the name and address of the applicant, a description of the newly acquired vehicle to which the duplicate license is to be issued, and any other information as may be required on the form. If the duplicate license is for a vehicle of the same class as that for which the license was originally issued, the Village Clerk shall issue the duplicate license for use upon the new or substitute vehicle upon the payment of a fee. If the duplicate license is for a vehicle of a class for which the payment of a greater fee is required by this section, the applicant shall pay to the village in addition to the fee for the duplicate license, the difference between the amount previously paid for the license for the vehicle sold or disposed of and the amount that would be payable for a new license for the new or substitute vehicle as of the time the new or substitute vehicle is first required to be licensed during the license year. If the duplicate license is for a vehicle of a class for which payment of a lesser fee would be required by this section the village shall issued the duplicate license for the new or substitute vehicle without the payment of any further license fee other than the fee for the duplicate license. All fees under this provision shall be as established in the annual fee ordinance.
(G) All revenues derived from vehicle license fees collected pursuant to this section shall be used for the purpose of improving, paving, repairing or maintaining the streets or other public roadways within the village, except that the actual cost of collection of the fees and the disbursement thereof may be deducted from the total amount collected.
(Ord. 780, passed 7-8-1991; Ord. 789, passed 4-13-1992; Ord. 811, passed 4-11-1994; Ord. 837, passed 10-13-1998; Ord. 904, passed 4-14-2003; Ord. 932, passed 4-11-2005; Ord. 979, passed 5-14-2007; Ord. 1013, passed 5-11-2009; Ord. 1036, passed 4-19-2010)