White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-21
MAY OPERATE IN MANY
COUNTESS, ONE LICENSE
Continued from Page One.)

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the commission to modify the ordi-
nances. The claim was made and
testimony offered at the hearing be-
fore the commission August %,
1928, hat the additional licenses de-
manded by the county ordinances
would so increase the cost of opera
ton as to cause a cessation of opera
ton. This the commission in its
opinion handed down this week finds
to he true and directs that the ordi
nce be so modified 20 provide for
a maximum charge for freight serv-
ice Of so cents per hundredweight.
based on the weight of the vehicle
employed in the operation when load
ed to capacity when operating or
first-class highways and 25 cents per
hundredweight when operating on
se%cond-class or ~unimprcvcd high
ways, with a proviso hat the maxi
mum charge shall! be 50 cents when
such operations embrace two classes
of roads.
The combined weight of the Ginoc-
chic trucks when loaded to their
capacity was shown to be approx
mately 10000 pounds, and which
under the order of the commission
would be subject to a license tax
of 5000 per annuDl as against
~s1503.62 as provided for by the or
d~inances adopted in Washoe, Orms-
by and Douglas counties.
Further complaint wa smade that
each of the ordinances required the
filing of a bond. In this the COM
one bond should be sufficient and
when an operator has complied with
the filing of a bond as required by
one county, a certified copy of such
bond when filed in tho other coun-
ties affected should suffice.
1t is further ordered that where
auto common carrier operations are
carried on by an operator in more
" than n county the license fee
should be pro rated between the
counties affected on a mileage basis.
For passenger, baggage and small
package business the public service
commission directs that the rate
shall not exceed % cents per hundred
pounds, based on the weight of the
vehicle used when loaded to capa-
city and travelling on III proved HIGH
ways, and a maximum NOT to ex-
coed % cents when operations are
conducted OIL both frst-class and
secOnd-class roads.
1t is generally believed that the
matter will be again submitted to
the supreme court by one or all of
the three counties affected on the
ground that section 9 of the act is
unconstitutional and that it confers
!udicia! power on the public service
commission
The final outcome of the case vii.
be earnestly watched by all those en-
gagged in the taxi or auto freight
service throughout the state, as well
as the county commissioners and dis
trict attorneys in the various conn,
ties.
Following is the public service
commissions order:
1t is hereby ordered hat on or
before December /, 1923, those
certain ordinances adopted by the
boards of county commissioners o;
Washoc, Ormsby and Douglas coun-
ties pursuant to chapter ISL, stat
utes OF 1923, be modified in the fol
lowing particulars:
(a) TO provide for classified
license fees for automobile com
mon carriers not to exceed the fol-
lowing:
For the operation OF freight busi-
ness only: or for freight, p~assen-
ger, express and mail business COM
prising two of more of these classes |
of service. the license to be at the
rate of 90 cents per hundredweight. |