(A) An annual license tax is hereby levied 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) The tax shall be to supplement revenue already available to the municipal corporation under R.C. §§ 4504.04, 4504.06, 4504.17 or 4507.171 and to provide additional revenues for the purposes set forth in those sections, without regard to any tax being levied pursuant to R.C. §§ 4504.06, 4504.17 or 4504.171 or received pursuant to R.C. § 4504.04 and in addition to the tax levied by R.C. §§ 4503.02, 4503.07 and 4503.18, upon the operations of motor vehicles on the public roads or highways. The tax shall be at a rate of $5 per motor vehicle on all motor vehicles, the district of registration of which, as defined in R.C. § 4503.10, is in the corporation of the city and shall be in addition to the taxes at the rate specified in R.C. §§ 4503.04 and 4503.16 subject to the reductions in the manner provided in R.C. § 4503.11 and the exemptions provided in R.C. §§ 4503.16, 4503.17, 4503.171, 4503.41 and 4503.43.
(Ord. 29-85, passed 4-16-85; Am. Ord. 57-87, passed 8-25-87)