The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-23

GStaDl1SneQ place or business, and also ! file certificate of his appointment I as agent for the sale of cars, and to file semi-annually a statement of the | number of cars bought or sold. If these fail to show reason wr- an ap- | plicant should be registered as a deal- | CT, the registration is cancelled. There had also appeared a number of manufacturers who were driving cars under the factory number, which were absolutely private cars. This
 evasion of fees was provided for by | limiting the use of manufacturers
 markers and registration to cars fused | only for testing and demonstrating purposes. Again some manufactur- CTS had only three or four cars regts- tered, for which they paid only one
 dollar per engine and these were not sold, and although they manufactured them it was more for their own use | than that of sale. This law was then changed so as to require a minimum l fee of twenty-five dollars to be paid in case the number of cars exceeded l twenty-five.
 The law was altered as to the fee per horse power, making it flat flee of fifty cents per horse power. It provided for fee for commercial cars, fixing the fee according to the carrying capacity of the car, thus pro- viding more equitably for the con- I tribution of revenue for highways by the owners of commercial cars. | WIde open State.
 | After due consideration it was de-
 c1ded to make Connecticut 8 wide open state to non-residents, owners and operators resides in states, grant ing to Connecticut owners and opera tors. like privileges although the law came very nearly specifying New Jersey as an exception, for the req
 son that so many Connecticut auto
 mobilists had been obliged to regis ter and license in that state almost as
 soon as the odor of gasoline from
 their cars had reached the border of that state.
 The 1911 law protects the public
 and the safe drivers, and adopts
 more practical method of licensing
 operators than examination, namely.
 of requiring the applicant to have
 driven at least one hundred miles,
 and guards against the obtaining of licenses or registration by misrepre- sentation by providing that any mis. statement of facts in an application for license or registration renders the same void.
 Secretary Acts on All Complaints. We keep on record all complaints
 made to us against operators and all newspaper information against them. The operator is not, as in some states,
 and particularly in New York, when charged with a violation of the law
 prosecuted, examined, and nothing
 done toward suspending his license or eliminating him as an operator until he is adjudged a criminal. In Con- necticut he is brought before the sec- retary, the matter investigated and upon the report of the secretary his license is suspended Or revoked. f- which action he may appeal to the courts. Thus Connecticut is now having fewer criminal violators and
 more careful operators.
 In the collecting of evidences against violators of the law, the state was handicapped in that it had
 no special force which by law it could call upon for such service. To rem edy this the power was confc~~-1 on the secretary to call upon the state police for it's services, both in the prosecution of cases and in the Secur- ing of evidence for the hearings be- fore him.
 Approaches Ideal Law. The Connecticut law enacted in 1911 has approached more closely the ideal law then that of any other state in that it affords the greatest protec-
 ton to the public and the sane and safe operator; it has the most fair
 equitable and practical system of ap-
 plication for an issuing of licenses and registrations and the fees for the same are fixed and reasonable. I append copy of the law to my
 address and commend it's persuaI to
 every person interested.
 Connecticut does not take the
 money derived from it's motor vehicle
 law and turn it into the treasury for
 the general purposes of the state, but causes 1t to be paid over to the
 highway commission of the state to
 be used in keeping the state roads, so
 called, in repair, so that every cent
 paid by the owner or operator of a
 motor vehicle is used directly for the
 benefit of the pathway over which he
 travels and he thus in effect, receives
 a return of portion of the money
 he pays the state.
 In conclusion, I desire to say that
 Connecticut has the model motor ve-
 hicle law, that her highways are we'll
 built and kept in repair, and that she
 welcomes the citizens of sister states
 within her borders.