(a) An annual license tax is hereby levied upon the operation of motor vehicles on the public roads or highways of the City, for the purpose of enforcing and paying the expense of administering this chapter; and for planning, constructing, improving, maintaining and repairing public roads, highways and streets; maintaining and repairing bridges and viaducts; paying the Municipal corporation's portion of the costs and expenses of cooperating with the Department of Transportation 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 any costs apportioned to the Municipal Corporation under Ohio R. C. 4907.47; paying debt service charges on notes or bonds of the Municipal corporation issued for such purposes; purchasing, erecting and maintaining streets and traffic signs and markers; purchasing, erecting and maintaining traffic lights and signals; and to supplement revenue already available for such purposes. Such tax shall be at the rate of five dollars ($5.00) for each motor vehicle having a district of registration in the City, as provided in Ohio R. C. 4503.10 and shall be paid in and collected by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles of the State of Ohio, or Deputy Registrar at the time of making application for registration, as provided in Ohio R. C. 4504.09.
(b) If the application for registration is made prior to the sixteenth day of July, the full five dollars ($5.00) shall be paid.
(c) If such application is made on or after the sixteenth day of July, and prior to the sixteenth day of October, three-fourths of the five dollars ($5.00) tax shall be paid.
(d) If such application is made on or after the sixteenth day of October and prior to the sixteenth day of January, one-half of the five dollars ($5.00) tax shall be paid.
(e) If such application is made on or subsequent to the sixteenth day of January and prior to the sixteenth day of April, one-fourth of the five dollars ($5.00) tax shall be paid.
(Ord. 7301/71. Passed 6-28-71.)