Record #: O2015-1396   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 3/18/2015 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
Final action: 4/15/2015
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 3 and 9 regarding Wheel Tax License
Sponsors: Mendoza, Susana A.
Topic: 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
Attachments: 1. O2015-1396.pdf
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ORDINANCE
 
 
 
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
 
 
 
SECTION 1. Section 3-56-125 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language stricken through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
3-56-125 Commercial motor vehicles vehicle fleet - Payment of Wheel Tax.
Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
(d)     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, ne No owner of a commercial motor vehicle fleet licensed pursuant to this section shall be required to display a wheel tax license emblem in or on a any commercial motor vehicle that is a part of such fleet. The owner of a commercial motor vehicle fleet may show payment of that a wheel tax license has been obtained for a such commercial motor vehicle by presenting a receipt, issued by the office of the city clerk, showing that the owner has purchased wheel tax license emblems for the owner's commercial motor vehicles vehicle fleet in accordance with tho provisions of this section. Nothing provided in this section shall be construed to relieve the owner of a commercial motor vehicle fleet owner from purchasing and displaying any wheel tax license emblems emblem required under this chapter for the owner's vehicles which aro not commercial motor vehicles, as provided in the provisions of this Code such owner's non-commercial motor vehicles or for any commercial vehicles that are not part ofthe commercial motor vehicle fleet licensed pursuant to this section.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
 
 
 
SECTION 2. Section 9-64-125 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
9-64-125 Display of wheel tax license emblem.
(a)     Except as otherwise provided in Section 3-56-020(b) or Section 3-56-125(d) of this Code, no person shall park or stand on any portion of the public way, or on any city-owned property, or in a public parking garage as defined in Chapter 4-232, or in any parking lot open to pedestrian traffic any vehicle requiring a wheel tax license pursuant to under Chapter 3-56 of this eede Code, unless the wheel tax license emblem is displayed as in the manner required by this eede by subsection (d) of this section. Pursuant to Section 3-56-021, any person alleged to have violated this section may raise as an affirmative defense that (1) such person resided in the city
 
 
for less than 30 days at the time he or she was cited for the violation, or (2) the cited vehicle was purchased less than 30 days prior to the issuance of the violation.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
 
 
 
SECTION 3. This ordinance is intended to clarify, rather than to change, existing law.
 
 
 
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take full force and affect upon its passage and approval.