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File #: 060325    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Placed On File
File created: 6/20/2006 In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
On agenda: 9/20/2006 Final action: 1/17/2007
Effective date:    
Title: A substitute ordinance relating to a municipal motor vehicle registration fee.
Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN
Indexes: FEES, MOTOR VEHICLES
Attachments: 1. Reply from the Budget & Management Analysis Office, 2. Fiscal note, 3. Four Reasons to Support the MVR Fee
Number
060325
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
050443
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to a municipal motor vehicle registration fee.
Sections
304-26 cr
Analysis
This ordinance imposes a $20 annual municipal motor vehicle registration fee (“MVR fee”) on every motor vehicle registered in Wisconsin and customarily kept in Milwaukee. The MVR fee applies to automobiles, station wagons and trucks whose gross weight is not more than 8,000 pounds. The local MVR fee is in addition to state registration fees.
Vehicles which are exempt from state registration fees or which pay a special state fee of $5 are exempt from the MVR fee. Also, no local MVR fee shall be imposed on a vehicle which replaces a vehicle for which a current Milwaukee MVR fee has been paid.
The ordinance provides that MVR fee revenues shall be deposited in an enterprise fund to be called the transportation fund. Revenues in the fund shall be used only to defray city costs for transportation related purposes which may include special assessments imposed upon property owners under the Milwaukee code. The city clerk is directed to notify the state department of transportation that the city of Milwaukee has enacted a municipal vehicle registration fee.

Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 304-26 of the code is created to read:

304-26. Municipal Vehicle Registration Fee. 1. DEFINITION. In this section, "motor vehicle" means an automobile or station wagon or motor truck registered under s. 341.25(1)(c), Wis. Stats., at a gross weight of not more than 8,000 pounds.

2. VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE. A municipal vehicle registration fee is imposed on every motor vehicle registered in Wisconsin and customarily kept in the city of Milwaukee. The amount of the fee is $20 annually. The municipal vehicle registration fee is in addition to state registration fees.

3. EXEMPTIONS. The following vehicles are exempt fro...

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