Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-29
WILL ENDEAVOR TO REGULATE TRAFFIC
 UPON AL ROADS
Judge Williams to Confer with Officials OH Re-
 cent Act

In order to protect the highways from being damaged by heavy wag- ons and trucks, it is possible .h.at a classification of highways in Jeffer- son county will be made to determine what class of vehicles may use the various improved roads, or what loads may be hauled over the roads. County Judge R. H. Williams Tues day will go to Little Rock to con- fer with members of the state high way commission about the special act passed by the legislature making it possible to protect the roads.
 The act was introduced by Sena- tor Creed Caldwell and Senator A. J. Walls of Lonoke county. It was one of the acts not affected by the supreme court decision, when many acts were declared invalid.
 Following are the provisions of the act:
 Section 1. That the using, driv- ing or operating upon any improv- ed hard public highway of this state of any tractor, truck, au- tomobile or other vehicle having cor rugated, spiked, jointed or other roughsurfaced metal tires is hereby prohibited without first procuring from the county judge of the county in which said road is situated a Ii, cense permitting such use of oper- ation.
 Section 2.-That in addition to the duties imposed by law on the sever- al conty judges as the respective counties of this state it is hereby made. their duty, and they are here hy Iy %al %- highway commission that it inspect all the highways of the state of Ar kansas which are now or hereafter may be hard surfaced with gravel, crushed rock or other material ordi- highways, and, that the said highway commission is hereby directed and authorized under the direction of the several county judges of this state to make classification of all such roads with respect to the weight of laoded or unloaded vehicles which may be used thereon. And in the making of the said classification the said state highway commission shall give due consideration to the charac- ter and to the reasonable reauire- ments of traffic in each county af- fected by it's action, but in no case shall said commissioner make any order which shall be unjustly dis criminatory, and it shall in no case exclude or prohibit from the use of any class or character of traffic which ordinarily passes over or uses highways of like class.
 "Section 3. Within 10 days after classifying any road or roads, or making any order with reference to their use, said commission shall cause to be published in some news papers having general circulation in the county in which said road or roads lie. or in one such newspaper in each county in which said road or roads lie, if they shall lie in more than one county, notice setting forth clearly the rems of such order or classification, and shall also cause to be posted at all intersections of said road with other public high ways, note in large enough letters to be easily read from the said road. showing the classification of said road.
 Section 4. Any person violating Section l of this act ,or after publi- cation of the notices required above, using, driving or operating on any road or highway any vehicle, loaded or empty, of greater weight than that described or provided for in such or der or classification as said commits sion shall have made with reference to said road or highway, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and. upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than $25, nor more than $100 Each days use of any such vehicle shall constitute a separate offense.
 Section 5. In addition to the penalty herein above prescribed, the person convicted of violation of this act, or of the orders or classifica- tions of said commission shall be liable in a civil action for all dam age occasioned or caused by such vio- lation; provided, however, that as to a special trip for the movement of some particular thing or vehicle from one location to another, the fine or penalty provided in this act shall not apply, but such person hsall be civilly liable to the proper county or road improvement district for all damapeS which hn nav or