Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-06 | Page 2 | Tractor Owners to Pay for All Damage to Road

TRACTOR OWNERS TO PAY FOR ALL DAMAGE TO ROAD If It not already done the county commissioners and the state road commission commission com corn mission should formulate and amI promulgate promulgate promulgate gate such rules and regulations as are arc necessary ar to protect and preserve the public roads of ot the state from present injury or ultimate destruction b by unreasonable unreasonable un un- un- un reasonable SIble us uses and such rules and nd provide pro that any violators thereof there shall pa pay for such damage damar done and arid suffer stiffer such uch penalty a as may be prescribed The count county attorneys will of ot course con conduct all nil proceedings I Ithe ip 19 the courts wherein county roads ar art arr involved olve 1 but In CH casen where state roads are Involved the district attorney attorney attorney ney or attorney general will ill conduct the proceedings This is th the opinion of William William- A. A Hilton assistant n t a attorney tt general given to Governor Mabey Mab and Is 15 in reply to tn a request from the tho executive for tor uch such view after atter verbally advising the thc attorney general that in several Instances the state highways were beinG being boIng be- be Ing ruined by tra tractors tors run running over them Tho The complaint of oC the governor governor- was that he had b been en I cd that op operators operators opera opera- ra- ra raJ J tors of ot tractors with cicala or spikes or oth other r projections on the wheels wheel had hall caused malarial damage to the high high- I ways was Ke lie then dum requested advice n nto as asto asto to whether ether or not the operators operator's of ot traders with such uch cleats or spikes I or oth other r projections fastened to th the tho wheels had Id the he ri right ht to drive them I ov over r tho the roads and antl It if so so If It the thc operators operators opera opera- tors tore or owners of the tractors could be required b by law 1 to answer In dam dam- oges for tor the tho injuries thus done to the highways or r suffer t th the penalty penally