Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2011-5544

• Record #: O2011-5544
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 7/6/2011
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
• Final action: 7/28/2011
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 2, 3 and 9 regarding wheel tax and associated penalties for commercial motor vehicles
• Sponsors: Harris, Michelle A.
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 14 Dept. of Administrative Hearings, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 3 - Revenue & Finance - Ch. 56 Wheel Tax Licenses, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 64 Parking Regulations, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 76 Vehicle Equipment, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 92 Impounding & Relocation of Vehicles, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 100 Admin. Adjudication of Parking or Compliance Violations

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
7/28/2011	5048	City Council	Passed	Pass
7/26/2011		Committee on License and Consumer Protection	Recommended to Pass	Pass
7/6/2011	3660	City Council	Referred

ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION I. Chapter 3-56 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding a new Section 3-56-125, by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
3-56-125 Commercial Motor Vehicles - Payment of wheel tax.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the owner of a commercial motor vehicle fleet used in the city shall purchase wheel tax licenses in accordance with the procedures of this section. No later than July 15 of each year, the owner of a commercial motor vehicle fleet shall file a return (for purposes of this section, "annual return") with the city clerk, in a form approved by the city clerk. The annual return shall contain the following:
(i) the number of commercial motor vehicles in the owner's fleet and the category of each commercial motor vehicle as listed in Section 3-56-050 of this chapter as of March 31;
(ii) for each category of commercial motor vehicle listed in Section 3-56-050 of this chapter, the net commercial motor vehicles added to the owner's fleet (the number of commercial motor vehicles added to the owner's fleet for any purpose less those disposed of and replaced) during the most recently completed 12-month period from April 1 to March 31;
(iii) the number of commercial motor vehicles in the owner's fleet disposed of and replaced during the most recently completed 12-month period from April 1 to March 31; and
(iv) payment of wheel tax licenses for each category of commercial motor vehicle in the owner's fleet as listed in Section 3-56-050 of this Code, calculated as follows:
Step 1: The number of commercial motor vehicfes in each category times the license fee set forth in Section 3-56-050 of this chapter for such category;
Step 2: The number of commercial motor vehicles in each category added to the fleet since the last annual return times the license fee set forth in Section 3-56-050 of this chapter ...