Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-13

any particular route or routes or be-
tween specified termini for hire or
compensation, exception such as run
on rails or tracks, automobiles used ex-
clusively as hearses, ambulances, ho-
tel busses. taxicabs, touring cars or
automobiles from garages upon call
which have no specified routes of
travel, and automobiles or auto truck
used for carrying United States mails
on star routes.
WHAT RULES PROVIDE.
Provision is made in the rules that
hereafter no automobile coming under
the classification shall be operated
without a license having first been Sc
cured from the commission. All ap-
plications must be made through the
assessors of counties. Bonds are re-
CURED from the applicants and they
should accompany the application. On
acceptance Of the application the COM
mission will issue a license plate.
Schedules of rates and rules must be
filed by applicants covering the oper-
alton Of the cars together with a time
table. q description Of the established
routes. The rules provide further that
no applicant shall carry more persons
than the license allowed by the COM
mission. No person under IS years of
age is permitted to operate a motor
vehicle on any road in the state and
machines may not be driven reckless
ly. Accidents and annual statements
must be reported to the commission
which is given the power to revoke
licenses.
ASK COOPERATION.
The licenses are from s45 to $780, de-
pending on the ton capacity of the
cars operated.
In a letter addressed to the assess
ors of the various counties, regarding
the new law, the commission says, in
part:
'The commission. in compliance with
this chapter. has adopted rules and
regulations governing the issuance of
licenses and the operation OF the We
hicles, also a form of bond to be exc
cuted by ca n applicant for lice nse. In
view of the fact tha: any one desiring
a license must Apply TO the assessor
of his county for the necessary blank,
and as such blanks are icing supplied
each asses sor, the mission will
greatly appreciate your courtesy in Civ
and regulations and blank bond, and
we are mailing you supply of each.
You will not. that the applicant is re-
quired by the application form, to GER
tify that he has received and read the
rules and regulations. 1t will be much
easier for the owners or operators of
motor vehicles to obtain the rules and
blank bonds through their respective
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this office for them, and avoids delay
in executing the application and the
issuance of the license. To this end,
the commission respectfully asks your
cooperation in handling matters con-
nected with the licensing of motor We
hicles, inasmuch as little time is re-
CURED to hand out the rules and blank
bonds.
mo doubt the assessors will be
called upon by various applicants for
instructions how to proceed to obtain
a license, execute a bond, etc, and
by placing the rules and regulations
and bonds in your care, you will be in
a position to advise them fully in the
matter.
This will be especially true for the
first month, due to the fact that pos
sibly a copy Of the session laws of
1917 may not be supplied the assessors
until. after the motor bus law becomes
operative, which is May 10, 1917
THE assessors will therefore be in
n position to furnish information and
advice to the people of their respect
tive counties that cannot be readily
obtained from any other source, and
we anticipate you will be ready and
willing to give same freely The COM
mission will gladly answer any corre-
spondence from you with reference to
the duties of the assessors or any 9TH
er matters connected with licensing Of
motor vehicles, should you not fully
understand the law or instructions is
sued by this office"