[Ord. No. 2012-07 §§1 — 8, 3-13-2012]
A. 
Each owner of a motor vehicle residing in the City of Appleton City shall pay an annual motor vehicle tax of five dollars ($5.00) for each motor vehicle that he/she owns as of the first (1st) day of January of each year, which shall be valid from the first (1st) day of January to the thirty-first (31st) day of December. Said tax shall be paid annually on the first (1st) day of January in each year in the same payment as personal property taxes, however, a penalty of one percent (1%) per month will be assessed if not paid by January thirty-first (31st).
B. 
A "resident" of the City of Appleton City, Missouri, for the purpose of this Article is hereby defined to be any person, firm, association, or corporation domiciled within the City of Appleton City, Missouri, a citizen of Appleton City, Missouri, and/or any person that is temporarily living in the City of Appleton City, Missouri, or any person, firm, association, or corporation that is carrying on a business in the City of Appleton City, Missouri.
C. 
A "motor vehicle" is hereby defined to be any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon tracks, except farm tractors and motorcycles.
D. 
It shall not be required that any evidence of payment of the annual motor vehicle license tax be displayed on any vehicle for which the payment of said tax is required.
E. 
No resident of the City of Appleton City that owns a motor vehicle used exclusively outside the City shall be required to pay any motor vehicle license tax as set forth in Subsection (A). The fact that the motor vehicle is used exclusively outside the City may be shown by an affidavit of the owner of the motor vehicle for the purpose of securing a State registration certificate without producing a receipt for municipal license taxes.
F. 
Dealers in motor vehicles shall not be required to pay a license tax on each motor vehicle owned by them, but shall annually pay to the City Collector such amount as will be sufficient to pay the regular annual license of five dollars ($5.00) on the maximum number of motor vehicles that they intend to operate at any one time.
G. 
A motor vehicle shall not be subject to a license tax if the same is not used or operated.
H. 
Any person in violation of any of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense.