Volume 71 · 598
Public Law 85–273
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, as amended.
Approved September 2, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (b) Registration of section 3 of title IV of the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved August 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 681), as amended (sec. 40–103 (b), D. C. Code), is amended by striking Class C of such subsection anti inserting in lieu thereof the following:
“Class C.
For each trailer, when the manufacturer’s shipping
Trailers.
weight of the chassis, plus the weight of the body, is less than five hundred pounds, $8; five hundred pounds or more but less than one thousand pounds, $12; one thousand pounds or more but less than one thousand five hundred pounds, $20; one thousand five hundred pounds or more but less than two thousand five hundred pounds, $32; two thousand five hundred pounds or more but less than three thousand five hundred pounds, $46; three thousand five hundred pounds or more but less than six thousand pounds, $60; six thousand pounds or more but less than eight thousand pounds, $74; eight thousand pounds or more but less than ten thousand pounds, $92; ten thousand pounds or more but less than twelve thousand pounds, $122; twelve thousand pounds or more but less than sixteen thousand pounds, $152; sixteen thousand pounds or more, $182: Provided, That in determining the total weight of a trailer subject to the provisions of this Class C, there shall be excluded, in computing such weight, the weight of any special equipment which is subject to taxation as tangible personal property under subsection (e) of this section.”
Sec. 2.
Subsection (b) of section 3 of title IV of said Act approved August 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 681), as amended (sec. 40–103 (b), D. C. Code), is amended by inserting between classes D and F the following:
“Class E.
For each motor vehicle classified by the Commissioners or
Antique motor vehicle.
their designated agent as an antique motor vehicle on the basis of a finding that such vehicle was manufactured prior to January 1, 1930, and is owned solely as a collector’s item, with its use limited to participation in club activities, exhibits, tours, parades, and similar uses, but in no event for general transportation, $5.”
Sec. 3.
The first proviso of paragraph (c) of section 3, chapter 6, of
Congressional tags.
D. C. Code 40–603.
43 stat. 1121. title 40 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia, 1951 edition, relating to issuance of congressional tags, is amended by inserting after the phrase “to the elective officers and disbursing clerks of the Senate and the House of Representatives” a comma and the words “the Chief Clerk of the Senate, the Parliamentarian of the Senate”.
Approved September 2, 1957.