Chicago City Stickers Expire June 30th
Braving oppressive 100 degree heat on Thursday, Michael Robinson spent the afternoon getting the word out to West Side drivers about the deadline on city stickers.
Wearing a traditional sandwich board sign with a picture of this year’s sticker, Robinson stood at the corner of North Ave. and Laramie Ave., across the street from a Currency Exchange, reminding people the end was near–the end of city sticker season that it.
A few other people, dressed in bright orange T-shirts and waving signs pointing to the Currency Exchange stood on corners opposite Robinson as streams of cars drove by.
Drivers can get their city stickers a myriad of ways, and using one of over 400 neighborhood Currency Exchanges is one convenient option for busy car owners. Currency Exchanges charge a $5.50 convenience fee on top of this year’s $85 fee for most passenger cars or $135 for larger, SUV type vehicles.
Chicago’s 2011-2012 city vehicle officially expire on Saturday, June 30th. That’s when drivers should have their new 2012-2013 city sticker purchased and on the windshield of their vehicle.
However, the good news for procrastinators is that enforcement of city sticker compliance does not actually start until July 16th. The Chicago City Clerk’s office gives drivers a 15 day grace period every year.
I DID NOT RECEIVE APPLACATIONS FOR AARON OR MICHELE CONWAY VEHICAL STICKERS
Watch your backs…
We will be in lots, garages, parking structures…places you think you can Hide from us…..
We can and will demand access to all garages and lots.
I will not give you access to my garage. Remember that Breaking and entering is still a crime.
Capt M-Plate wrote:
We can and will demand access to all garages and lots.
My Comment:
I assume that you mean licensed public garages. If its someone’s private garage, a little thing called the Fourth Amendment would tend to get in the way. In order to get into a private garage you would have to have probable cause.
The solution is very simple. Get rid of the City Sticker and make it a State-Wide assessment collected as part of the plate renewal system. It would greatly improve efficiencies.
Another oppressive city fee targeting the poor and middle class. A city run by democrats who love to stick to the little guy!
Correct David…
Only about 10% of all garages and parking lots in the City of Chicago are off limits to CPD/Clerk/Revenue at this point. I love the internet for having stuff bookmarked.
3-56-135 Right to inspect.
Members of the police department, parking enforcement aides or agents of the department of finance designated by the comptroller and investigators of the city clerk’s office shall have the authority to enter the following places for purposes of ascertaining whether vehicles parked therein are in compliance with this chapter:
(1) any public garage;
(2) with respect to any accessory garage, as defined in section 4-232-130, that allots a percentage of parking spaces to the general public, all areas of such garage where vehicles of the general public may be parked;
(3) any parking lot that is open to pedestrian traffic.
IF the garage is Licensed by the City, it is not exempt from inspection.
If we can walk in…we can check and ticket what we find.
Since December 1st 2003.
As for the “Get rid of ” etc……
Any Municipality has the legal right to implement or choose to Not Implement a Wheel Tax emblem requirement for its citizens. Want to avoid it?
2 legal options:
1. Get rid of your vehicles if you live in Chicago.
2. Move the heck out.
The problem is that the city sticker is unfair. All of the citizens of he state hold pay for the upkeep of h roads in Chicago. They all benefit. This “city tiker” concept is backward and obsolete. It’s a simple change in State law.
David,
I think I’m coming around to your line of thinking on the statewide assessment and renewing your city sticker when your plate sticker gets renewed.
I wonder if opposition would come from Jesse White. He’s the most popular politician in the state. Does he want to have to collect an additional $85 or more per year when you renew your plate sticker and face the wrath of the public?
Question for you all. Forgive my stupidity in asking what might be well-known info, but how does it work with the grace period & violations? I know they give you until 7/15 before the late fee kicks in, but can you still be cited during that period? If I just ordered it today, do I risk being written a ticket between now & when it arrives? If I display the receipt I printed out, will that help?
Municipalities should do away with city stickers and have the state collect the tax. It would be such a good idea – much more efficient than the labor-intensive sticker approach. Additionally, 100% compliance would be guaranteed, well for people who keep their plates from expiring anyway.
The State Legislature would have to Author a bill to make Wheel Tax Emblems a requirement at the state level…and then author a bill to remove the ability to issue them at the city municipal level.
Here is a interesting point though…The Chicago Police and the Department of Finance Parking Enforcement and the City Clerk all Enforce STATE VEHICLE Code Requirements.
Front plate requirements, rear plate requirements, expired plate violations, Window Tint laws, Plate Cover ban’s.
The City wouldn’t stop enforcing the Vehicle Stickers….they would just use the 1979 Home Rule Clause in the Illinois Constitution to continue to Enforce those vehicles that were in violation of the vehicle Tax Emblem code, and it would Open Up ALL Illinois Vehicles to getting legal tickets for no/expired vehicle sticker at whatever Fine the City of Chicago chose to levy. And thanks to the State….no one would ever beat a ticket for the wheel tax emblem violation.
So please….make it a state wide requirement sticker….remove the ability to cheat by registering your chicago car in oak brook.
That doesn’t make any sense, M-Plate. What’s to stop Chicago from ticketing ALL vehicles found in city limits without a CHICAGO sticker? If Chicago could legally do this right now, they surely would. Home Rule doesn’t mean Chicago can do whatever the hell it wants, no matter how much the Chicago Machine may think that is the case.
If the state outlaws local wheel tax emblems and collects the tax at the state level, to be distributed to the municipality (which sets the local wheel tax rate), there would be nothing Chicago could do to change that. It would simply be more efficient and effective all around.
Captain M Plate
The State Legislature would have to Author a bill to make Wheel Tax Emblems a requirement at the state level…and then author a bill to remove the ability to issue them at the city municipal level.
My comment: Or to simply make the “Wheel Tax Emblem” as equivalent to the plate and sticker. No need to have the separate sticker in the window.
Captain M Plate wrote:
Here is a interesting point though…The Chicago Police and the Department of Finance Parking Enforcement and the City Clerk all Enforce STATE VEHICLE Code Requirements.
Front plate requirements, rear plate requirements, expired plate violations, Window Tint laws, Plate Cover ban’s.
The City wouldn’t stop enforcing the Vehicle Stickers….they would just use the 1979 Home Rule Clause in the Illinois Constitution to continue to Enforce those vehicles that were in violation of the vehicle Tax Emblem code, and it would Open Up ALL Illinois Vehicles to getting legal tickets for no/expired vehicle sticker at whatever Fine the City of Chicago chose to levy.
My comment:
Not sure what you are saying. Sure the City can write up cars for no plates. If we make the plate the tax emblem, we simply merge the ticket into the plate fine. I have no problem with tickets for no city sticker, my problem is that the system is costly and inefficient and the net result is that a portion of the cost is wasted on the administration of the sticker.
Dave…I think what the dude is getting at is the ’79 amendment would allow Chicago to continue to implement the current program because A City Tax on Vehicle Ownership can not be legislated against at the state level without a majority house/senate vote to Revoke the 79 Home Rule Clause first.
And the ‘several’ other municipalities in Illinois use that Clause to their benefit as well and would suffer from its revocation.
And there is the point that the majority of politicians in Springfield are beholden to the Chicago machine at some level or another.
As for writing bogus City Sticker violations on non-Resident vehicles…
No Comment.
As for the system is costly and inefficient…
Why does the City need a Clerk to manage the City Sticker/RPP/Etc programs that license and raise revenue, when oh hey…we have a Department of Finance with the Sub-department of Revenue.
Answer…………We DON”T.
Mikey,
No, there is no enforcement between June 30th and July 15th.
And, the City Clerk’s office says you should get your sticker in time if you ordered on July 3rd. But make sure you get it on the windshield before 7/15. Because on July 16th, hoooooo boy! Enforcement really ramps up.