[R.O. 2009 §390.010; Ord. No. 309 §§1 — 2, 1-9-1984; Ord. No. 404 §1, 4-8-1991; Ord. No. 448 §1, 1-11-1994; Ord. No. 707 §1, 5-10-2004; Ord. No. 909, 1-11-2012]
A.
License Fees; Collection.
[Ord. No. 950, 8-15-2018; Ord. No. 958, 11-20-2019]
1.
A license fee shall be levied and collected on all motor vehicles
owned and operated, parked or stored by persons, corporations, partnerships,
or firms residing in or maintaining a place of business within Pasadena
Hills on an annual basis. A license fee shall be in accordance with
the following schedule:
2.
Collection of all fees herein shall be conducted by St. Louis
County, Missouri, through the applicable assessment of personal property
taxes.
B.
Such licensing fees shall be due and payable by the 15th day of February
of every year. If an owner or operator of such motor vehicle fails
to pay the fee assessed for a vehicle by February 15, a late fee of
fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be assessed for each month thereafter
during which said fee remains unpaid.
[Ord. No. 950, 8-15-2018; Ord. No. 958, 11-20-2019]
C.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk or his/her deputy, when application
is made for the issuance of any license on a motor vehicle, to require
such application to be made in writing, in duplicate, and to contain
the name and address of the owner of the motor vehicle, the trade
name of such motor vehicle and its body style, year of manufacture
and its horsepower, and if such motor vehicle be a truck, its rated
tonnage. Such applicant shall likewise furnish the number of his/her
State motor vehicle license then in use on such vehicle. It shall
be the further duty of the Clerk or deputy when receiving such application
to obtain satisfactory proof that such application covers the kind
of motor vehicle for which application is made, and for such purpose
he/she shall require the applicant for such license to present, at
the time of filing such application for license, the State ownership
certificate describing the motor vehicle to be licensed as issued
by the Secretary of State or, in lieu thereof, such other satisfactory
evidence that such application properly and accurately covers the
motor vehicle for which a license is intended to be issued. It shall
be the further duty of the Clerk or his/her deputy, when the annual
tax on any motor vehicle mentioned in this Chapter has been paid,
to register the same and give the party applying for the license the
number to be put thereon; provided, however, that no license for a
motor vehicle shall issue unless the applicant therefor shall present
to the City Clerk or his/her deputy his/her personal tax bill marked
"Paid" by the City or County Tax Collector for the previous year,
showing that said motor vehicle has been assessed or, in lieu thereof,
a statement from the Tax Collector or applicant indicating that no
tax is due for the previous year on said motor vehicle.
[R.O. 2009 §390.020; Ord. No. 309 §§3 — 4, 1-9-1984]
A.
Upon
the issuance of a license for a motor vehicle the Clerk or his/her
deputy shall deliver to the applicant a transparent sticker license
emblem, approximately three (3) by two (2) inches in size, which shall
bear the name of the City, the year for which the license is issued,
the words "Motor Vehicle Tax" a reproduction of the Corporate Seal
of the City, and the number under which said license has been registered.
This emblem shall be impervious to the weather and its border shall
be of adhesive material of such strength and composition that it cannot
be removed without being mutilated or destroyed. The predominate background
color of this emblem shall be changed annually.
B.
The
owner of said vehicle shall affix the emblem to the lower right-hand
corner of the inside of the glass part of the windshield of the motor
vehicle for which the same was issued, except motorcycles or motortricycles
where the emblem shall be affixed to the front or right side of same
in a position where the same will be visible from the front or right-hand
side while the vehicle is being operated.
[R.O. 2009 §390.030; Ord. No. 309 §5, 1-9-1984]
No person shall operate, park or store a motor vehicle within
the City, which is owned by any person, corporation, partnership or
firm residing or maintaining a place of business within the City,
unless a current City vehicle license is procured and displaced in
the manner provided by law.
[R.O. 2009 §390.040; Ord. No. 309 §6, 1-9-1984]
The owner of any motor vehicle shall destroy and remove the
license emblem before selling, disposing or delivering said vehicle
to a new owner, and no motor vehicle license emblem shall be transferred
to any other person or used upon any vehicle other than the one for
which it was issued.
[R.O. 2009 §340.195; Ord. No. 641 §1, 4-11-2002]
A.
No
person between the ages of sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years who
is qualified to obtain a license pursuant to Chapter 302, RSMo., shall
operate any motor vehicle as defined in the Traffic Code of the City
of Pasadena Hills in or upon the streets of the City unless such person
has in his/her possession a valid current intermediate driver's license
of the appropriate class in accordance with the laws of this State.
B.
No
person having an intermediate driver's license shall operate a motor
vehicle in or upon the streets of the City between the hours of 1:00
A.M. and 5:00 A.M. unless accompanied by a licensed operator for the
type of motor vehicle being operated who is actually occupying a seat
beside the driver for the purpose of giving driving instruction and
who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age; except such a licensee
may operate a motor vehicle without being so accompanied if the travel
is to or from a school or educational program or activity, a regular
place of employment or in emergency situations as defined by the Missouri
Director of Revenue by regulation.
C.
Each
intermediate driver's license shall be restricted by requiring that
the driver and all passengers in the licensee's vehicle wear safety
belts at all times. This safety belt restriction shall not apply to
a person operating a motorcycle. For the first six (6) months after
issuance of the intermediate driver's license, the holder of the license
shall not operate a motor vehicle with more than one (1) passenger
who is under the age of nineteen (19) who is not a member of the holder's
immediate family. As used in this Subsection, an intermediate driver's
license holder's immediate family shall include brothers, sisters,
stepbrothers or stepsisters of the driver, including adopted or foster
children residing in the same household of the intermediate driver's
license holder. After the expiration of the first six (6) months,
the holder of an intermediate driver's license shall not operate a
motor vehicle with more than three (3) passengers who are under nineteen
(19) years of age and who are not members of the holder's immediate
family. The passenger restrictions of this Subsection shall not be
applicable to any intermediate driver's license holder who is operating
a motor vehicle being used in agricultural work-related activities.
