Record #: SO2014-66   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 1/15/2014 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
Final action: 3/5/2014
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Sections 3-56-040 and 3-56-050 regarding wheel tax license
Sponsors: Mendoza, Susana A., Mitts, Emma, Graham, Deborah L., O'Connor, Mary, Quinn, Marty, Reboyras, Ariel, Reilly, Brendan, Arena, John, Sposato, Nicholas, Burnett, Jr., Walter, Silverstein, Debra L.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 3 - Revenue & Finance - Ch. 56 Wheel Tax Licenses
Attachments: 1. SO2014-66.pdf, 2. O2014-66.pdf
SUBSTITUTE () R I) I N A N C E
 
 
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
 
 
SECTION 1. Section 3-56-040 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language stricken through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
 
3-56-040 Issuance.
  1. Upon payment by the applicant ofthe wheel tax license fee hereinafter provided, the city clerk shall issue, or cause to be issued, a wheel tax license. The annual period for a wheel lax license shall begin on the required purchase date and shall end on the last day of the same month in the following year, as indicated on the face of such licensc.rprovidod Provided, however, that if a wheel tax license is issued before the required purchase date, such license shall be valid upon its issuance. Provided further, that in the case of renewal of a valid and current wheel tax license only, the following requirements shall apply:
  1. Prior to July I. 2016. the annual period for renewing a valid and current wheel tax license shall include a 15-day grace period, during which the applicant may purchase a wheel lax license without incurring any (1) late fees under section 3-56-050. or (2) penalties under section 3-56-150 for failure to obtain the wheel tax license by the required purchase date.
  2. On and after July I, 2016, the annual period for renewing a valid and current wheel tax license shall include a 30-day grace period, during which the applicant may purchase a wheel tax license without incurring any late fees under section 3-56-050. Provided, however, that nothing in the paragraph (a)(2) shall be construed to authorize the waiver of penalties under section 3-56-150 for failure to obtain the wheel tax license by the required purchase date.
  3. Any grace period provided for under this section shall commence at 12:01 a.m. on the day after the required purchase date and shall end at midnight on the fifteenth clay after the required purchase date.
  4. During the transition period preceding full implementation ofthe staggered system authorized under Section 3-56-015 for issuing wheel tax licenses, and thereafter, as provided for in duly promulgated rules and regulations, the city clerk is authorized to issue wheel tax licenses for more or less than an annual period. In such case, the fee for such license shall be prorated in accordance with Section 3-f{r-05<-W(-e-) 3-56-()50(c).
  5. During a period of heavy volume of applications for a wheel tax license, or when necessary er-appropfiate to promote the efficient and orderly administration of this chapter, the city clerk, in consultation with the cily comptroller, shall have authority to (1) extend the required purchase date for an additional amount of time, not to exceed 34H-thirty) 15 (fifteen) days, for all persons required during such period to buy a wheel tax license emblem or combined wheel tax license/residential permit parking emblem; and (2) waive any late fees otherwise applicable to such persons during such period. If the city clerk exercises such authority, the city
 
 
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clerk shall post notice of such fact on the city clerk's website.
 
 
 
SECTION 2. Section 3-56-050 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
 
3-56-050 Fees - Late fees.
(Omitled text is unaffected by this ordinance)
 
(3)      No late fee shall be imposed under this subsection (b) if (i) the applicant obtains a wheel tax license within 30 days of commencing residence in the city, as required under Section 3-56-02 1(a); or (ii) the applicant obtains a wheel tax license within 30 days of purchasing or otherwise acquiring ownership of a vehicle, as required under Section 3-56-02 I (a); or (iii) in the case of a renewal of a wheel tax license, the applicant obtains a current wheel tax license within the grace period provided for under Section 3-56-040(a)( 1) or (a)(2), as applicable.
 
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
 
 
 
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take full force and effect upon its passage and publication.
 
Susana A. Mendoza, City Clerk Alderman limma Mitts, 37n' Ward
 
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Final copies to be filed with:
  • Chairman of Committee to which legislation was referred
  • City Clerk