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Show Changes Noted in Driver License Laws To Take Place After May 8 Deadline If you have a motor vehicle driver's license which expires before be-fore May 8 next, it is your legal duty, if you desire to continue operating op-erating you car on the Utah highways, high-ways, to have it renewed, and the renewal can be for only three years. Such renewal will cost you 50 cents, or at the rate of 16 2-3 cents a year, it is pointed out by Patrick Healy, Jr., chairman of the state tax commission. If your license expires after August Aug-ust 7 next, you may renew your license May 8 or any time thereafter there-after up to the expiration date but not earlier than three months before such expiration date. But in any event it will cost you $1, and the renewal will be good for five years, or at the rate of 20 cents a year. If your license expires on some date between May 8 and August 7, inclusive, you have an option. You may renew before May 8 for three years, or you may renew on May 8 and thereafter for five years. If your license expires May 7 or before that date, the record on the drivers' license division of the state tax commission so shows. Therefore any attempt to renew on May 8 or thereafter, in order to take advantage of the longer effective ef-fective period, would in the eyes of the law, be a misdemeanor. Some of the courts have been sending send-ing persons to jail who were driving driv-ing their cars without a valid license in their possession. Application to the tax commission commis-sion after a license has expired does not of itself convict the driver of driving without a license officials of-ficials point out, but the law gives the tax commission no choice but to require the applicant for an original or-iginal license and to take the full examination physical, road test and written. The fee for an original license is not ?1 but $2. When issued, any original license lic-ense is good until the birthday of driver in the fifth year following the year of issuance of the license. The section permitting renewals without examination makes no mention of birthdays. The present fee for an original license is $1; for a renewal, 50 cents and for a duplicate license, (in case it is shown that a license certificate has been lost or destroyed) des-troyed) 25 cents. On May 8 and thereafter the fee for an original license becomes $2; and for either renewal or duplicate, $1. One other change in the present driver's license law is made by the same act of the legislature, it is pointed out at the state tax commission com-mission offices. As it stands at present the law makes operators' or chauffeurs' licenses held by "members of the armed forces of the United States" valid "until six months after the war has ended or six months after the holder has left the service, whichever is the earlier date." The new law, effective May 8, applies to "persons "per-sons ordered to active duty in any of the armed forces of the United States," and requires that their licenses be honored as valid "until twelve months after the person per-son has been discharged or has left the service." |
