Show II I I I Drivers Driver's License Laws Reviewed by Healy Salt Lake City 19 If If you have a motor vehicle drivers driver's drive ers er's license which expires before before be be- fore May 8 next It Is your legal duty if you desire to continue operating your car on Utah highways to have it renewed I and the renewal can be for only three years Such renew renewal will cost you 50 cents or at the rate of 16 3 2 cents a year it is pointed out by Patrick Healy Jr chairman of the state tax commission If your license expires after Aug 7 next you may renew it l Ia May 8 or any time thereafter up to the expiration date but not earlier than three months before such expiration date But ButIn Butin in any event it will cost you 1 land and the renewal will be good if Ifor for or five years or at the rate of 1 I 20 cents cents a year If your license expires on some date between May Mav 8 and Aug 7 inclusive you have an ration You may renew before May 8 for three years or von may renew on May 8 and thereafter there there- after for five years If your license expires Mav May 7 or before that date the record or the drivers driver's license division of the state tax commission so shows Therefore any nv to renew on May 8 or th thereafter reaf ter te-r In order to take of the longer loneer lon er effective period would In the eyes of the law be a misdemeanor Some of f the the- courts have been sending persons per sons to Jail who w were re driving their cars ears without a a valid It II 11 cense in their possession Application to the tax commission com corn mission after a license has expired ex ox pared does not of itself convict the driver of driving without a license officials point out but the law gives the tax commission commis sion slon no choice but to require the applicant to make application tion for an original license and to take the full examination examination- physical road test and written The fee for an original license is not 1 but 2 When Issued any original li license II 11 cense is good until the birthday of driver in the fifth year fol lowing the year of Issuance of the license |