Chappell v. Lacey

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• finding the license fee for motor vehicles, which was previously classified as a user fee, to be a tax under the amended statute
• Courts will uphold regulations “when plainly intended as a police regulation, and the revenue derived therefrom is not disproportionate to the cost of issuing the license, and the regulation of the business to which it applies”

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