The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-24
THE new AUTO Law.
Goes Into Effect About April 29-Its
Provisions.

Goes Into Effect About April 29-Its
/ Provisions.
| The erroneous announcement that
the new automobile law would take
effect when printed in the State Jour
nal. the official state paper. has
| caused some confusion in the minds OF
automobile owners. The law is not to
be published in the official state pa
per, but takes effect when the statute
be about April 90. While the new law
| goes into effect at once, it provides
that registration shall not commence
until July l, 1913. The registration
| motor vehicles SIS. annually The
| owner of a motor vehicle must call on
| the treasurer of the county in which
he resides and pay the fee. The coun-
| state and the latter will mail the Ii
cense and number tag direct to the
/ owner. County treasurers may COM
mence receiving fees at once, but the
| mail out any tags before the first of
June.
| When car is sold the license goes
with it. The automobile owner who
sells his old car and buys a new one
must take out a new license and get
a new number. The purchaser of the
old car must pay a fee of 81 register
| ing the transfer.
CURED to register only one car and all
the cars used by him for demonstrate
| ing may bear the same mum Der. Pro-
vided, that a dealer in bith electric
and gasoline cars must register one of
each, and he must get separate Ii
cense for any car operated for his
| private use or for hire.
The registration year will end June
80 each year. The year will not ap-
pear on the number tag, but will be
| indicated by the color of the tag. The
| first tags issued, which will be good
until June 80, 1914, will have black
numbers on white background.
Other provisions of the law which will
take effect as soon as the statute book
! is published next week are as follows:
All municipal motor vehicle license
fees are cancelled. Children under IA
years of age and intoxicated persons
are prohibited from driving motor We
hicles. Speed limit outside any city or
village must not be greater than is rea-
sonable and proper, having regard for
the traffic and use of the road and the
condition of the road. In case of acct
dent and injury to person or property
a speed of more than 20 miles an hour
shall be presumptive evidence of care
lessness on the part of the driver. With
in any city or village no motor vehicle
shall be operated at a speed greater
than twelve miles an hour, nor at a
rate of speed such as to endanger the
preaching railroad crossing and inter-
section of highways, or a bridge OF a
sharp curve or steep descent, or an
other vehicle or an animal or person
| outside of any village or city, the per-
son operating a motor vehicle shall re-
duce the speed of such vehicle to a
rate not exceeding eight miles an hour.
When crossing an intersection of
streets within any city or village, motor
vehicles shall not be driven at a speed
exceeding six miles per hour. Provided,
that the speed limits shall not apply
to physicians or surgeons or police or
fire vehicles or ambulances when an
swering emergency calls demanding eX-
ceSsive speed.
Any person operating a motor vehicle
shall at request or on signal by putting
up the hand, from a person riding or
driving FESTIVE horse or other draught
or domestic animal, bring such motor
vehicle Immediately to a stop, and if
travelling in the opposite direction re-
main stationary so long as may be rea-
sonable to allow such horse or animal
to pass, and if travelling in the same
direction use reasonable caution in
passing such horse or animals. and
the operator or occupant of any motor
vehicle shall render necessary assist
ance to the party having in charge such
a horse or other draught animal in so
passing. Whenever any person travel
ing with any vehicle or conveyance
travelling in the same direction and
shall by sound or call indicate to the
driver thereof his or her desire to pass,
it shall be the duty of the driver of the
vehicle or, conveyance in front, if the
nature of the ground the condition
of his load will permit it, to promptly
turn to the right of the center of the
road and the driver of the vehicle or
conveyance behind shall then turn to
the left of the center of the road and
pass by without interfering or inter-
rupting, and the driver of said vehicle
or conveyance passing shall not return
to the center of the road until a least
thirty 600 feet ahead of the vehicle
or conveyance passed.
Every motor vehicle while in use on
public highways shall be provided with
good and sufficient brakes, and also
with a suitable bell, horn or other
signal, and shall have exhibited during
the period from one-half hour after
sunset to one-half hour before sunrise,
one or more lamps showing white
lights visible within a reasonable dis
tance from the direction toward which
such vehicle is proceeding. and a red
light visible from the reverse direction.
The violation of any of the provisions
of this act shall be deemed a mis-
demeanor punishable by a fine not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars for the first Of
Tense, and punishable by a fine not less
than fifty dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars, or Imprisonment not
exceeding sixty days in the county Jail.