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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0048ORDINANCE NO. 47. Vl� AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR LICENSE UPON VEHICLES DRA7.1,7, OPERATED OR PROPELLED UPON THE STREETS OF THF CITY OF BURLINGAME. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF BURLINCAME DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: - Section 1. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in carrying on business in the City of Burlingame and driving, operating orqjro- pelling or causing to be driven, operated or propelled upon the streets of the City of Burlingame a vehicle or vehicles as a means of carrying on said business shall pay a license tax or, such vehicle or vehicles as follows: For each hay wagon, tank wagon, brewery wagon, scavenger wagon, lumber wagon, meat wagon, dirt wagon, gravel or cement wagon, express wagon, interurba# delivery wagon, or any truck, dray or van or other vehicles of a carrying capacity of two tons or more, the Sum of Sixteen Dollars (1116.00) per year; . For each hay wagon, tank wagon, brewery wagon, scavenger wagon, lumber wagon, meat wagon, dirt wagon, gravel or cement wagon, express wagon, interurban delivery wagon, or any truck, dray or van or other vehicles of a carrying capacity of one ton or more and less than two tons, the Sum of Eight Dollars (4$8.00) per year; For all other vehicles, excepting private carriages, private automobiles and vehicles used exclusively for pleasure and hearse and dead wagons, the Sum of Six Dollars (06.00) per year; Section 2. The license required by this ordinance shall become due and sayable on the lst day of October of each year and shell be i��i Cl" one''eaT r{3Yi the3�G:`e Y: ��li:. ..;.i;'Y ;; f:; p:i C. tax_ is paid after the date when annually payable, then same may be pro- rated over the remaining fractional year, which shall be not less than one-half year; when a license shall remain delinquent there shall be (1) added to the whole amount or sum of such license the Sum of Twenty -Five Cents as a penalty for each month of delinquency and the entire amount or sum shall become a debt due and owing the City for which the City may collect in a suit at law. Section 3. All license taxes shall be paid to the Tax Collector of the City of Burlingame who shall upon the receipt of same enter -same in a book kept for that purpose with the name and number of the parti- cular applicant; and thereupon the Tax Collector shall issue a metallic tag bearing the words "License" and "Burlingame" with a number, and suitable for affixing to the particular vehicle. Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Tax Collector to have in his possession at all times license tags consecutively numbered and bearing the year for which they are issued. Section 5. The person, firm or corporation applying for such license shall affix to his, her -or its vehicle in a conspicuous place the license tag and permit inspection to be made by the Tax Collector of same. Section 6. Ordinance No. 6 of the City of Burlingame is hereby expressly repealed and the Tax Collector is expressly authorized to rebate any sum or sums that may be due any person, firm or corporation under said Ordinande No. 6 at the time this Ordinance goes into effect. Said sum or sums shall be pro -rated over the time for which the license under Ordinance No. 6 was issued. Section 7. This Ordinance shall not apply to vehicles used in Inter -State Commerce or those vehicles from without the City that are used in the business of a public utility as part of such business, and as classified as such under the Railroad Commission Act of the State of California, approved December 23rd, 1911; nor shall this Ordinance apply to vehicles used in the pursuit of the business expressed under Ordinance Section Any person violating any provictions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined the Sum not less than Ten Dollars (10.00) or more than One Hundred Dollars,($100.00) or by imprisonment (2) in the City Jail not exceeding ten (10) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 9. This ordinance shall be published for two (2) successive publications in the Burlingame Advance and be in force and effect I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and reguy/�agsd the oard of Trustees of the City of Burlingame on the d yl e (/ �, following1912, by the following vote, to—Tit: J Ayes, TrusteesL___ Noes, Trustees:___�L,e________ Absent, Trustees: Attest: �ty�C erg. (3) of thet� purlingame, Cal.