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Show License Plates Available Soon On Application Applications for 1960 license plates, to be issued through the mail for the first time in Utah County, will be sent out Dec. 10, reported Assessor Guy H. Ivins. About 32,000 application forms, which includes an automobile auto-mobile tax release and a registration re-gistration application, will be mailed to county automobile owners, said Mr. Ivins. Car owners who are living in the same district as they were last year or who have not purchased a new car after about Oct. 1, are eligible for the program, declared the assessor. as-sessor. The application for which is completely filled out by the assessor's as-sessor's office, requires only the signature of the car owner. He then is to mail the form, his 1959 registration and a remittance which may be a personal check for both the plates and taxes to Mr. Ivins. "Many people are reluctant to mail in their old registration card while applying for the new," declared the assessor. "However, the law provides that the registration need not be in their auto while they are applying for new plates. Deadline for returning the application forms is Feb. 10. They will be processed on a "first in-first out" basis, reported re-ported Mr. Ivins. No plates will be issued until Jan. 1, he said. Foreign cars and some American Am-erican autos will not be processed pro-cessed through the "license plates my mall" program. However, How-ever, application forms for these autos may be secured by telephoning the assessor's office. of-fice. The 'license by mail' program pro-gram was adopted, according to Mr. Ivins, to eliminate confusion con-fusion and waiting in long lines, and to assist automobile owners in outlying areas from making trips to Provo. Mr. Ivins urged all persons who receive the application to keep it, even though they wish to receive their plates at the City-County building in person. per-son. Utah County is the second county in the State to adopt the mailing system. Salt Lake has been using it for the past couple of years. |
