Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-07-18
MUST HAVE
LICENSE; OR FINE
County Attorney B. Auger Elk.
plains Auto Law-NO One
Under 16 Can Drive Car.

passengers and charge for the
same must take out the neces-
Sary licenses or less be subject
to prosecution for the violation
of this law. The following COM
.munication was received this
week from County Assessor Cal
vim Hazelbaker who has asked
County Attorney E. Anger for
an explanation of the law gov
erning the operation of automo-
biles for hire.
Licensed chauffeurs have been
complaining that numerous per-
sons who have not taken out the
necessary licenses have been
cutting deeply into their busi-
ness. Persons engaged in this
business who have paid their
necessary license fee and met
other requirements of the law
should he given the protection
Of the law to which they are
justly entitled to. 1t is the in
tention of the county officials to
enfore this law rigidly.
Persons who haul passengers
and charge for the same must
take out the necessary licenses
or stand the consequences.
Following is the law as inter
preted by County Attorney B..
Anger to Assessor Hazelbaker.
Subdivision 3, Section 13,
Chapter 106, of the Compiled
Laws of Idaho, provides: (De-
filming common carrier")
Every corporation, person or
persons, their lessess, trustees,
receivers or trustees appointed
by any court whatsoever own
ing, controlling, managing, op-
Grating, driving or causing to be
operated or driven, or holding
out by sign, voice or other de-
vice or by advertisement that
they will drive, operate or cause
to be driven or operated over
any particular route or routes or
over any route or routes or be-
tween specified terminal for hire
or compensation any automobile,
auto stage, motor vehicle or
motor truck for use in the bust
ness of carrying either passen-
gers or freight or both, except
such as run on rails or tracks
not hereinbefore enumerated,
and automobiles used exclusively
as hearses, ambulances, hotel
buses, operating solely between
hotel and trains, or automobiles
or auto trucks used for carrying
United States mails on star
routes when actually engaged in
carrying such mail"
Section 73 of Chapter 106,
provides: "a common carrier
of the class mentioned in subsec-
tion 3 Of Section 13 hereof own
ing, using OF operating five or
less automobiles, auto stages,
motor buses, motor vehicles or
motor trucks in such business of
such common carrier before en-
gaging in or commencing such
business must execute g bond in
the sum of $4,000 payable to the
State of Idaho, with one or more
sureties to be approved by the
public utilities commission, and
file the same with such commits
. sion, and any such common car
rier owning, using or operating
more than five automobiles, auto
stages, motor buses, motor vehi-
cles OF motor trucks in the busi-
ness of such common carrier
shall execute and file like bond
in the sum of $4,000. Such bond
shall be for the benefit of any
person injured by the negligence
of such common carrier as the
interest in such injured person
therein may appear. If any such
bond, by reason of a recovery
against the same or for any 9th
er reason, shall become insuffi-
cient, such common carrier with
in 80 days after being notified
by the public utilities commits
sion such other bond as may be
required by such commission,
and a failure so to do shall op-
arate to revoke the license
granted to such person failing to
file such additional bond, as
hereinbefore required. Any per.
son operating as a common car
rier as defined in subsection 8 OF
section 13 hereof without first
complying with the provisions OF
this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, which penalty