I remember when the key was giant sized and super heavy but it all got retconned and changed a number of times
Which Superheroes are guilty of Tax Fraud?
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The JLA had a headquarters there.
I don't understand this question. I don't pay annual taxes on my car. Do you mean pay for license plates? Is the car registered?
Based on the variety of media, Wayne Industries is involved in a variety of businesses and subsidiaries. Some of those subsidiaries handle department of defense contracts. Perhaps the Batmobile is a prototype and Bruce is listed as a test driver.
Or, Bruce built the car himself. He paid for the materials as he purchased them, including all appropriate taxes,
I phrased the question wrong. Yes, we tag and pay taxes on cars when they're purchased, but every year, we also pay taxes on the perceived "worth" of said vehicle when we go to the DMV to renew our tags. I'm assuming Bruce Wayne doesn't do this. Or else, Batman waits in line at the DMV. "I LOST MY PROOF OF INSURANCE, GET GOTHAM FARM BUREAU TO FAX YOU OVER A COPY!!!"
I'm going to assume whatever state Gotham is currently in doesn't have this requirement. It doesn't exist in New York
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Is it a car?
In the 1960s, did electric cars qualify as cars?
No internal combustion engine.
In the 1960s, did electric cars qualify as cars?
No internal combustion engine.
Yes. Electric cars have been around since the 1800s, they just weren't practical.
Not the sixties, but back in the 70s a friend's father, who was an engineer, built an electric kit car. It was licensed and everything.
You don't have to register a golf cart and you register a tractor differently.
I was wondering if an electric car encompasses the legal definition of a car in the 1960s?
If a car is not registered with the DMV it is not legally roadworthy.
Driving an unregistered car is a crime.
For what it is worth: The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was enacted in 1966 and would have applied to Gotham City, regardless of what state it was in. The act defined "motor vehicle" as "any vehicle driven or drawn by mechanical power and manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads and highways, except any vehicle operated exclusively on a rail or rails." The definition doesn't differentiate between gas or electric forms of mechanical power.
Therefore, under federal law, the Batmobile (at least the sixties version) would qualify as a motor vehicle.
Thank you.
It's fairly likely that the Batmobile was operating before 1966, since that's when the show started, and the series did not begin with an origin.
The Batmobile had four different license plates, over the course of the show, and at least one of them said the "car" lived in New York State.
I think we can safely assume that the 1966 federal definition was taken from what was the generally accepted one prior to that. It would have made little sense for the government to suddenly and radically redefine "motor vehicle" in a statute intended to mandate a certain level of uniform safety in something that had been around for at least fifty years at that point.
First federal law of of it's kind.
State laws all said similar things, I expect, and existed since cars became so popular that they were dangerous.
Car registration is not a Federal concern.
Also I'd like to "lawyer" the word "manufactured".
American law seems to think that home made, hand made cars are suspect and unsafe.
"Parts" of the Batmobile would have been manufactured blind globally, and other parts would have been hand made by ignorant professionals, again globally, therefore maybe 100s of sections of the "car" would have been delivered to Stately Wayne Manor, from all over the world and assembled by Alfred, if Alfred or Bruce didn't hand make some of the Batmobile themselve's in the Batcave's Machine Shop.
Imagine you built a car, from a kit, in your back yard, then gunned the engine and accelerated onto the highway. Imagine how quickly you'd be dead, or detained because you don't have a warrant of fitness, registration, or a prayer?
Yeah, that's more or less where I was going. While it may have been the first federal law of its kind, it makes complete sense that it utilized a common definition that applied to most, if not all, states. So, yeah, there is every reason to assume the Batmobile, no matter its power source, fit the legal definition of "motor vehicle" at the time.
This reminds me of a cute story that Kyle Baker did where Alfred was ordering a Batmobile from a local custom car company and, when the guy got too suspicious, Alfred sighed and said "well, if you're not interested I guess I'll have to bo back to Mr. Lucas and ...oops...I've said too much..."
I bet their is all sorts of laws on the books specifically made to protect Batman that we don't have in our world since we don't have a Batman. Some of it questionable in terms of whether they would pass the muster with a challenge going to the Supreme Court but I am thinking Batman is like a big issue during every Gotham or State of New York election with candidates having to let people know their level of support. If anyone running is thinking about shutting down Batman they likely never win. It helps also that Bruce Wayne can donate lots of money to the pro-Batman candidates to help them win.
Maybe 5 mayors died during the course of Gotham.
Bribing a Gotham politician is dumb, because they are all looking for one huge payday, before they bow out and retire to Coast City.
It's literally a real thing.
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