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Show No Word from Attorney "Stains Imllk Mkr iavs tus quo" method of giving traffic and parking The stalTnUs Will continue, said Pres. James C. Fletcher tickets on caw of he Traffic Division. An official jd Etoy J fr'om utah attorney General Phil Hansen say-i""6" say-i""6" PmDUS cannot legally "set up a court or charge fines" M infractions has not been received by the University. I for traffic think hig statement over much more care- i 'I h0? pre,. Fletcher. "But," he emphasized, "it is not , fully." 5310 collecting revenue but more a matter of an eff ec-, ec-, a roatterPnforcing regulations." tiV Attorney General claimed that $250,000 was being col-?t col-?t thp University every year from traffic citations. These lected by . ld be ded equally between Salt Lake U, revenues, ne saw, t City and County. Tickets According to Jones, the quarter million dollar figure is a "gross error," since last year's total fine collection was $38,478. He said that 42,750 tickets .were issued - eleven for moving violations and the remaining for illegal parking or unregistered vehicles but that many were excused. "In the first week or two of the quarter," Jones said, "as many as 100 tickets were given in one day. But many of these will be excused as merely a teaching device." To date, the traffic head stated, approximately 7,100 tickets of the $3 and $5 variety have been issued. The $3 citations are for illegal parking; the $5 for failure to register a vehicle. No Fine Reduction Robert L. Schmid, chairman of the Campus Traffic Enforcement En-forcement Committee, said his committee would "await appropriate ap-propriate action" by the administration before changing their functions. The student-faculty committee hears appeals from students on traffic citations. He also said he anticipated no reduction of the parking fine from $3 to $1. "Let's not call peaches, apples," he reasoned. "The downtown down-town $1 fee is for over -par king and not for parking in a restricted re-stricted zone." According to the Salt Lake Traffic Violations Bureau, illegal parking tickets run from $2 to $5. "Actually, the Board of Regents has authority to set the amount of traffic fines," said Preston Linford, member of the Campus Traffic Planning Committee. He mentioned that the Board acted arbitrarily in raising the car registration fee two years ago to $7.50. "We can recommend amounts charged, but the Regents may act alone or on our recommendations." The $38,000 of traffic fines revenues is placed in the General Fund. : (Continued on Page 3) Fletcher: Keep Status Quo (Continued From Page 1) Hansen indicated that if the University failed to comply with his legal opinion, he would file a '.'friendly law suit." On the other hand, Jones said, past University President A. Ray Olpin asked the attorney general of 1948 about the traffic fines procedure and was given the legal opinion that is now being followed. "We feel quite clean on this," said Pres. Fletcher, on the 1948 legal opinion. If a 1966 legal opinion is handed to the administration, the University has one alternative of attempting to pass a statute in the State Legislature to the effect that campus police have the authority to issue traffic fines. Hansen claimed that his opinion "might create some fiscal complexities" because the University would no longer collect the fines. "But as a practical matter, we will let bygones be bygones unless there are individual claims for reimbursements." reimburse-ments." Hansen recommended that traffic enforcement be regulated regu-lated by "other than imposing fines or taking violators before a student-faculty committee." |