Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-15 | Page 9 | State to Open Branch License Plates Offices

STATE TO OPEN i BRANCH LICENSE PLATES OFFICES I Welling Scores County for Unwillingness to Aid Public Convenience Milton H. H Welling secretary of state announced Monday that he would open a branch license plates of office fice in the city and county building Tuesday morning mornin At the same time he expressed regret regret regret re re- re- re gret that the Salt Lake county commission com corn mission or the Salt Lake county assessor assessor as as- sessor should be so derelict in their consideration of the convenience and the rights of the public as to refuse to open a branch assessors assessor's office inthe inthe in m the state capitol Under the Utah law a person cannot cannot cannot can can- not secure his motor vehicle license plates until he ha has ha's paid his property taxes on his car or had the taxes charged against his real estate SAYS WORK HINDERED The action of Salt Lake county in refusing to send two men up tf t the state capitol to collect property taxes on automobiles will be a great inconvenience inconvenience inconvenience incon incon- to the public Mr Welling said About third one-third of the persons persons per per- sons who come after their license plat plates plate's s have lost their cert certificates and must have a reissue before they can secure their plates and get their new certificates That work cannot be bedone bedone bedone done down at the city and county building because all of our records are up hereIn hereIn hereIn here In addition there are still dozens of persons who do not seem to know that they must have made their peace with the assessor before they can get their plates and we must send them back down the hill to pay their property property prop prop- erty taxes on their cars When the law was before the legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature requiring the payment of those Continued on Page Fifteen I STATE TO OPEN BRANCH LICENSE PLATES OFFICES Continued From Irom Page Pare Nine t taxes before Issuance of plates Salt Sal Lake county officials were among its is strongest sponsors It I has meant thousands of dollars of additional tax money which Salt Sal Lake county would never have received had it not been for Cor that law Still Salt Lake county refuses to take any steps which would be bo for Cor the thc convenience of or the motorists motor motor- Last year many car owners who did not live lve in Salt Sal Lake county paid Salt Sal Lake county their car taxes merely because they could pay these taxes and get their licenses at the time they were at the capitol on other business In my estimation Salt Sal Lake county will wi collect enough extra money from the out county motorists motorists mo mo- to pay the little extra expense a branch at the capitol would cost The convenience to the people would therefore cost Salt Lake county nothing noth ing Still Sti the county assessor and the county commission decline to render that important service servie to the public