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Show AUTO LICENSE BILL ADOPTED Automobile licenses must be taken ouc annually at a cost of $5 to $15 each i under the new auto.nobilu registration law that passed, the Senate Tuesday and went on its way to the governor, j Representative Ira R. Browning is : author of the bill. The prejent law provides that one license lasts the life of a car at a cost of $2 when issued, mid it may be transferred for $2. The following schedule of registration fees is provi led in the bill: For motorcycles, $3; for electric pleasure vehicles, $5; for commercial , passenger-carrying motor vehicles (public (pub-lic machines), $10; for commercial non-passenger-carrying machines, $10; for pleasure cars of not exceeding twenty-five twenty-five horsepower, $5; for pleasure cars, of twenty-five to forty horsepower, $10; I for pleasure cars of more than forty horsepower,' $15; for dealers' transfera- j ble license, $25. j If the fees are not 'paid on or before July 1 of each year an additional fine of one-half the registration fee is imposed. ' Public chaulTeurs must pay a $2 license li-cense fee. Nonresident owners may drive their machines in this state for a period of thirty days without a state license. Violations of the provisions of the act are punishable by fries of not less than $10 and not more than $100, or imprison- ment for not less than 10 days and not more than three months. It is estimated by the office of the secretary of state, which controls the regulations imposed by the bill regarding regard-ing registration, that after this year i the new law will bring annually to the 1 state road fund a sum of $100,000. This ' fund will be devoted to building good roads. ' j |