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Show BIT TO PROSECUTE LIQUOHIOUITIS County Attorney Notifies Commission That lie No Longer Takes Cases. QUESTION OF REVENUE 1 Declared That as Municipality-Gets Municipality-Gets License Fees, ft Should Bear Expense. Sa't Lak City must proewute violations viola-tions of the stsl liquor law If It fle-Hires fle-Hires prOSeCUllonSi Mcrordln? to a derision de-rision reached yesterday by County Attorn- T. B. Wllley nd announri1 In n tcr 5-n' tii city bOnimlsalou M--. Tvmy declares that his office will no lonfTT frrfr th eit-.-s cases nfter the la pee or ,1 reasonable fm In which the commission imv enact fMlnanees i efrula'.Inc: the trnff'c Mr. Wflley'S communication to the commission Is as Wlow, TTIien the liquor law of 1811 bcam effective, line office took ovov the prosecution of llijuor ia?s. it was our understanding that the various cities a nf tnmu in the comity would. a soon us reasonably oonvsnlentj pns ordinances tn regulate and prohibit pro-hibit the manufacturlna;. sellfiur. g-h-lnp away, or disposition In any manner, of Intoxicating liquors. For almost whole year this of-firc of-firc has he.-D attending to practically all of the liquor Violations In Snit Lake Ctty W hnl expected that, your honorable commission would m- ( crd'rianro.c restricting and regulating regu-lating the Honor traffic in this city. City Gets Revenue. As you are aware Palt I-ake f'lty receivep the entire revenue: arising rirm such liquor traffic within Ita jurisdiction, while the burden of the prose.- lit lop of violations of the liquor la.tr has continued with the county Administration W do not -ih to shirk any duty, or hamper your ad-mtnistratlon ad-mtnistratlon of municipal affairs, rlthr do -xa wish to see the violators vio-lators of th "standard of morality-' on llqi;'ir traffic, adopted by Hip laat loielat ore. go unpunished. But since j'ait l.'ike county as a municipal "orporatlon, receives no revenue, we p'nse. or any of its fimetlonarles perform the work, arising from the. violations of the law In the liquor traffic In aii t.ake City. We are Informed, however, that probably you have been advised that you are without authority to pass ordinances on the subject. This view, however, this office doe.s not ha.te, as In our Opinion the legislature legisla-ture has clearly delegated such authority au-thority In your city. If your lei?al department does not agree with us, the courts of tld-s state may, of course, decide the matter. The recent decision of the supreme court only decides that the ordl-nances ordl-nances of the various rminiotpalltl' in this rtatf s.-iv repealed when th. Iquor 'aw. adopted by tho last legis-lattire, legis-lattire, became effective, nnd that all prosecutions under the old ordinances are without force and effect. New Ordinances Needed. It Is triie that there are some features fea-tures of the liquor law which cannot hp enacted into a city ordinance. We do nor wish to be captidue About the matter, hut w tbink that every step should be taken by Salt Lake 'lly thai It can legally take to regulate regu-late the liquor trr.ffir. if later it shall clearly appear that the dtj has no authority to legislate upon certain phase." of ti,( liquor traffic, we shall, flf course, expect, In such an event, to assume responsibility under the ,ta'.e law We respectfully notify you. therefore, there-fore, that after such reasonable time ai iiia: be demei necessary within Which to enact such ordinances, we -' nil refuse to prosecute all violators Of the liquor law In Salt 1,,-ikc City, unless oui '.ourts hold that these prosecutions are to be continued by ihe county. |