Record #: O2019-4119   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 6/12/2019 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
Final action: 7/24/2019
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 3-56-050 by further regulating wheel tax (city sticker) fees for large vehicles registered to persons 65 years of age or older
Sponsors: Quinn, Marty
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 3 - Revenue & Finance - Ch. 56 Wheel Tax Licenses
Attachments: 1. O2019-4119.pdf

ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. Section 3-56-050 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding the language underscored as follows:

3-56-050 Fees - Late fees.

 

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

(2)     The City Clerk shall maintain a list of makes and models of passenger automobiles classified as "smaller" or "larger" for the purposes of this provision. The list shall be available for public inspection at any time during the Clerk's regular business hours.

 

Vehicle

Fee

Smaller passenger automobiles, larger passenger automobiles or motorcycles only, not more than one motor vehicle, registered to a person 65 years of age or older, upon satisfactory proof of age and motor vehicle ownership

$30.00

Replacement passenger wheel tax license emblem registered to a person 65 years of age or older, upon satisfactory proof of age, proof of purchase and original damaged wheel tax license emblem or police report of theft

No Fee

Antique motor vehicles

$30.00

Motorcycles or neighborhood electric vehicles

$45.00

Municipally owned vehicles

No fee

Vehicles licensed to disabled veterans, purple heart veterans, or to persons who, while serving in the United States Armed Forces, were taken prisoner of war

No fee

Vehicles licensed to handicapped individuals

Handicapped individual means every natural person who (1) has permanently lost the use of a leg or both legs or an arm or both arms or any combination thereof or any person who is so severely disabled as to be unable to move without the aid of crutches, tripod type cane, walker or a wheelchair; and (2) has a valid disability license plate issued by the Illinois Secretary of State

No fee

Tax-exempt organization-owned buses

No fee

Trailers

No fee

All other vehicles, including trucks, tractor-semitrailer units, motor buses and recreational vehicles:

 

16,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight or less

$200.00

16,000 lbs. oross vehicle weiqht or less for not more than one

$135.00

such vehicle, registered to a person 65 vears of aae or older, upon satisfactory proof of aqe and motor vehicle ownership

 

Over 16,000 lbs. gross vehicle weight

$450.00

 

 

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

 

 

Marty Alden

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect on January 1, 2020