The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-04-11

cles not especially mentioned herein
each fifty cents.
Section 8. Be it further ordained, etc
That on the second day of January
IS99 and each subsequent year. the
tax collector of the Parish of Iberia
shall begin to collect and shall collect
as fast as possible from each and every
person or persons, business firms or
corporations in the Parish OF Iberia,
owning and possessing any of said
vehicles graded in Sec. of this or
dinance, the said license tax, which
said license shall be due and collecta-
BILE during the first two months OF
each year, and all unpaid licenses
shall beco me delinquent on the first
day OF March of each year, ard all
persons who acquire any of the above
vehicles and bicycle, named in said
Sec.7, after that date shall become
delinquent unless the license is paid
within ten days.
Section 8. Be it further ordained,
etc, That any person or persons, re-
quired to take out a license under
this ordinance upon the vehicles and
bicycles mentioned in Sec. of this
ordinance, who shall fail or neglect
to take out said license shall be lia-
BILE to be sued by the Police Jury for
the amount of said license in any
court OF competent jurisdiction in the
same manner as in ordinary suits.
Section 10. Be it further ordained,
etc., That the only legal evidence that
a license has been paid shall be the
appropriate form of license issued by
the Police Jury; and no receipt issued
by the tax collector in place of the
license itself be valid.
Section III. Be it further ordained,
etc, That the ex-officio tax collector
of the Parish Of Iberia, shall keep a
book in which he shall record or file
| the statement made under oath of all
persons who may apply tor the license
for and upon each vehicle and bicycle
mentioned in Sec. 7 of this ordinance
and which said oath shall be as to the
number and kind Of vehicles and bicy
cles, said persons may own and pos
sess and said tax collector is hereby
empowered and required to admins
ter said oath to the persons applying
for said license under this ordinance.
Section II. Be it further ordained,
etc. That the tax collector is hereby
required to keep license register and
enter the names of every person, bus
mess firms Or corporations owning
and possessing the different kinds OF
vehicles and bicycles mentioned in
this ordinance and liable to said Ii
cense tax, the name of each vehicle,
the number of vehicles and bicycles
said person or persons own and pos
sess, the graduation Of the same, the
amount of license thereon and the
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date of collection or payment thereof.
Section l3. Be it further ordained,
etc. That on the first day of the
month OF March of each year the tax
collector shall deliver to the Police
Jury complete list of all the delin-
quent license payers, together with
their location and the number and
kind of vehicles and bicycles owned
and possessed by them and the amount
Of license due. and the said Police
Jury shall Immediately proceed to
collect same by suit in accordance with
and as provided in this ordinance.
i Sec. H.. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That the tax collector shall receive
4 the same fees for the collection of the
per capita tax and the license tax as
now fixed by law for the collection OF
State and Parish taxes and licenses.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, etc
that the tax collector shall settle with
the Parish for said per capita and IL
cense 7ax in the same manner and
form as for other Parish taxes and IL
censes, and all laws governing tax col
ilectors in the performance of their
duties and. not specially provided
herein shall be applicable to this or
dinance.
i Sec. rs Be it further ordained. ETC.,
That the tax collector shall issue to
the persons paying said license tax, a
license plate or plates, bearing the
name of the Parish, the amount paid
on each vehicle and the year in which
said license was paid, which plate
shall be furnished by the Police Jury
and issued free OF cost to license payer
and which said license plate shall be
issued in number and amount occoid-
ing to the graduation herein fixed and
one for each vehicle or bicycle upon
which said license is paid.
j Sec. II. Be it further ordained, etc.
That the person or persons paying
said license tax shall display saio
plates in conspicuous manner by at
taclning said Incense plate to their We
h1cle, on the left hand side, and any
person or persons who shall fail OF