Redlands Municipal Code Art. X Wheel Tax

The business of running, driving or operating any automobile, automobile truck, automobile tank wagon, or any vehicle used for the transportation, selling, collection or delivery of goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property of any kind from a vehicle, either as the principal business or in connection with any other business, or of soliciting for work, labor services to be performed upon the public street in or from a vehicle, or to be performed on goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property to be taken for such purpose to plant or establishment inside or outside of the city limits of the city, an annual license fee of twenty four dollars ($24.00) per vehicle so used in such business in the city. (Ord. 2980 § 1, 2025: Prior code § 2291)

The provisions of this article shall not be deemed to apply to persons, firms or corporations operating such vehicles together and in conjunction with a fixed place of business within the city, for which such business a license is paid under other provisions of this chapter and chapter 5.04 of this title. (Ord. 2980 § 1, 2025: Prior code § 2292)

The provisions of this article are not to be construed as imposing a tax upon vehicles, but as a method of classification of business and distinguishing between those maintaining a fixed place of business in the conduct of which vehicles are used and those maintaining a business in the conduct of which vehicles are used but who do not have a fixed place of business in the city. (Ord. 2980 § 1, 2025: Prior code § 2293)