Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-18
WANTS CHANGES
IN MOTOR LAWS
Commissioner LippincOtt AS.
serts Act Should Be
Strengthened.
ASKS MORE AUTHORITY
TO STOP VIOLATIONS
.Favors a Uniform System OF
Registration Fees-Needs
Inspectors.

IEE0G
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. B.-Joo n.
Iippincott, commissioner of motor
vehicles, today submitted TO Governor
Wilson his first annual report and
the seventh one of the department.
4 The report is mainly a review OF the
j work of the department for the year,
with several important recommends
4sons for amendments to strengthen
8 the motor vehicle act.
The FIRST amendment proposed Dy
4 r.os1rnissioner Lippincott to the Leg
4 islature is to give the commissioner
nnwer to suspend the fifteen-day tour
ling privilege against any license IS
sired by another State, in order thae
sba denartnent of motor vehicles may
- ali times have automatic controi
~ every automobile using New Jer-
=sey's roads. The report says that an
ax an1ination of the record OF states
sccntiguous to New Jersey SHOWS tnat
=4he registration fees there are slightly
higher than in New Jersey. Inc re-
4 hort recommends that the registration
fees here be made to conform to sneh
states as New York, Pennsylvania
and MARYLAND. In furtherance OF TINS
milan Commissioner Lippineott pro-
moses the following schedule OF ices
"a fair basis of registration: l to
s1o- horsepower. So; 10 to 80, $40; 80 to
la SIS: 40 to so, $50. and 50 and over,
#sz5: commercial trucks, according TO
#horsepower and so additional for an
4 rucks weighing, unloaded, over 4,o0O
hounds. and SIS additional for each
+ 600 pounds thereafter; manutac-
=ft1rers. IS per set, not exceeding fVe
#sets: livery license, $40 per set, not
liz exceed five sets. Mr.. Lippincott
1savs had the above schedule been IN
Existence during 1912 the State would
have received an additional revenue
|of 100000.
i The report says the department re-
lizards reciprocity not as an absolute
method of adjusting the relations be-
Itween States, but simply as a step
In the development which will event.
hate in the establishment of an in
&fergtate license system which will
5coutain the three necessary elements
|of any scientific motor vehicle law;
namely. reciprocity of privilege, reci-
|nrocity of regulation and reciprocity
|of revenue.
The report asks the Legislature to
|eonsider the recommendation for adj
|ditionaI inspectors with the depart
|ment. In order to properly enforce
|fhe fifteen-day touring privilege the
needs sixteen inspectors,
fhe report says. The increased reve-
|zaae fs<yu the work performed by the
inspectors would many
hines repay the expenditure in sala-
xies, the report argues.
Another Recommendation calls for
an amendment similar to a proviso
|in the Massachusetts law, requiring
ali garage owners to keep record of all
Incoming and outgoing machines in
books in order to prove a check upon
motorists who violate the reciprocity
These books should be
Subject to inspection by the motor
vehicle department inspectors at all
|fimes.
The report also suggests an amend
.raent requiring rear lights on all ma
chimes to illuminate the number
|plates. These should be visible at a
distance of fifty feet the report sug-
1EeStS. Il ne TEpDTl diSO GdSStSlS NiiN
'abolition of swinging numbers on
machines. because they are not
.capable of being read. The age limit
7of drivers should be increased to ls
wears, on account of many serious
Incidents caused by drivers under
that age.
Commissioner Lippincott also asks
that he be clothed with power to sus-
pend licenses for an indefinite time,
In order to break up a large number
of violations of the law he is COM
PEELED to judicially dispose of. He
also asks that the power of police
Justice be given him, so as to effect
lively compel compliance with the law.
He also suggests the ACCESSIBILITY of
giving him power to impose fines for
violations of the motor vehicle law