The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-07-26
Reports Increase
In Auto Licenses
Governors Campaign to Enforce
Auto Registration Gets
Results
NEARLY ALL RECEIPTS
SPENT ON HIGHWAYS
Nearly Half a Million Dollars Re.
ceived Since Passage of First
License Act

In the following detailed report
by the state highway department
July 22nd, the states income from
auto-license fees and the uses to
which II is put are shown:
The attention of the entire coun.
try is being focused upon the mat
ter of financing the enormous high
way construction program now un-
der way and contemplated for fu-
ture years. One of the recognized
sources of state income which should
be expended only upon roads is the
automobile license fee. In coopera-
tion with the secretary of state and
the state controller, we have COM
piled a statement covering auto IL
cense fees in Nevada from the date
OF the passage of the first act to
July 1, 1922.
The first motor-license act of Ne.
vada approved March "a, 1913, and
became effective from January 1st
OF that year. The fee provided in
this was II 1sc per horsepower. The
fees received. after deduction Of ex-
pense items for plates, etc, were re-
turned to the counties from which
they were received for expenditure
on the county roads by the board of
county commissioners. This act re-
mained in force until the 1917 ses-
sion Of the legislature which passed
the Nevada highway law, and at
that time an amendment provided
that the balance of auto-license fees
on hand and all future receipts, ex-
cept from those counties not includ-
ed In the state highway system, were
to go into the state highway fund.
In 1919 the legislature passed the
present automobile license law
changing the fee basis to that of
weight instead of horsepower, and
providing that the fees, after deduc-
ton of expenses and of the income
from counties not in the state high
way sytem, should go into a special
bond interest and redemption fund
for the redemption of an authorized
issue of state highway bonds In the
total amount of $1,00o,000. This
Is the law which is now in effect
The fee provided is 35 cents per
cwt. on the factory weight OF the
machine plus an additional 125
pounds for each passenger capacity.
At the time this act was passed the
Nevada fee was comparable with the
fees in a number of the other states.
but since that time many of the
ftto r<x{x sv,l1 ~
road user should pay his share of
the burden, have materially increas-
ed their fees until the Nevada fee Is
again far below the average. The
1921 legislature also passed a spec
ial act pertaining to truck transpor-
tation companies, providing a spec
ial fee for vehicles operated by such
companies based on the classification
Of the roads over which they oper-
ate under permit from the public
service commission.
During the period January 1,
1913, to July l, 1922, the total re-
ceipts from automobile and truck
licenses In Nevada have been s447.-
697.67, and this sum has been ex-
pended as follows:
1Srnaoeg noarf afrog afro afrog agf
Automobile road fund nd$32,673.4S
State highway fund. S2,065.75
Motor vehicle ex-
pense fund .............. 2S,S70.75
Auto road repair fund. 11,349.41
State hwy. bond int.
and red. fund...........1s5,90
Cons. bond interest
and red. 106,S3371
OF the 100000 state highway
bonds authorized. 100000 have
been issued and s250.000 redeemed.
The total registration of vehicles
has shown a gradual increase year
by year up to 1921 when the regis
tration fell below that of 1920.
Early in the present year 1t became
apparent that many car-owners were
attempting to evade the payment of
the required license, which prompt
ed the governor to inaugurate an
enforcement campaign through the
state police, and this has resulted In
a jump In total registration for the
half year to 10,6S4, which is over
1000 machines above the total for
the preceding year of 1921.
It is apparent that, estimated on
the basis of the 1922 collection, II