White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-18
|UTAH'S REDUCED AUTO
LICENSE AFFECTSNEvAOA

me Utah law for automobila II.
eehses was revised downward In a
radical manner by the legislature.
the session of which was concluded q
lew days ago. From the list II an.
pears That the cost of licenses proper
mas been cut in half and several ad.
ditional fees have been taken off.
me license for a Ford ear. which
was $40, has been reduced to 81
But the SO lacked 1926 of getting
you a license, for there were as
many as six or seven different kinds
Oh fees TO be paid to compel the own.
er 10 prove that he did not steal his
car. One of these was so cents for
inspection. Tho inspection consisted
OF lifting the hood on the left side
and copying the factory number on
the cylinder block. Sometimes that
labor was saved. At Salt Lake auto.
mobile gencies a salesman or officer
OF the concern was generally appoint.
ed as an inspector. At the Dodge
agency there was me-. All he did
was TO I'll out the inspection blank
FOR ears sold. filling in the serial
number from the records. and told
buyers he would save them that
much. but when it came to paying
for the car the 50 cents was always
added. for the Salt Lake automen
never overlook anything.
Utah lawmakers are considerable OF
the rights of everybody, especially
automobile owners who pay for their
licenses early. Thousands OF people.
in fact nearly all of them within the
state, had paid fer their 1923 licenses
before this last law was passed. In.
der this law they are allowed a re-
fund TO meet the reduced license
rates. but the inspection fee of so
cents and the other fees paid By own.
ers for filing various documents to
prove that they did not steal their
cars are not refunded, though car
owners who waited until now To pay
are not charged the 50 cents and are
not required TO pay for filing papers
Of any kind.
Under the old law 4 license could
not be transferred from one a to
another. II an owner sold his car
the license was void. II could not
go with the car and be used by the
purchaser and 1t could not be placed
on another car purchased by the first
owner. The new law provides that a
seller may have his license trans
ferred TO a new car by paying a fee
OF ST.. But sales that have been
made since January /. where the sell
ers have bought other car and pro
cured their second licenses. are an.
other dead loss TO them, for the
money cannot be refunded. Again
those who may have not secured Ii.
eenses for new ears after making
sales of their old ones. who have lain
low and gotten by until this law went
into effect. are able now 10 have their
first 1923 licenses transferred for 81,
whereas those who bought new ones
have two licenses and are out the
price of the second one minus the
dollar that they could not save in
any event.
The law Will have a peculiar effect
outside of Utah. especially in Ne
yada. Under the old one many PEG
pie living close to the Nevada line
but on the Utah side ran their cars
with Nevada licenses. The main rea-
q for this was the inspection law,
which required that the owner drive
his ear 10 the place whore an In
speetor resided and premit him to
raise the hood and copy of the serial
number. For people living In Snake
valley II meant a drive TO Delta or
Milford. an average distance OF
eighty 10 ninety miles and back.
Since such people were driving their
cars across the state line often sew
eral times a day, and always many
times in ninety days, which Is the
time limit recognized by law. their
was simply to buy Nevada
licenses.
Their right to use Nevada licenses.
though living In Utah, Is not known
10 have been challenged but oEee.
This was when a Cold Hill officer fol
lowed n mar to Callao. Utah. and the
Gold Hill justice of the peace SOAKED
him $50. But that was never car
ried up to a court that knew anything
about law, so the issue never was
really determined. =.
Other activities of the Gold I'LL
did a great deal of harm &c
bls town and to the Lincoln high.
way. Many tourists and others nave
given Gold Hill a wide berth on his
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