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Show WHO MAY DRIVE CARS THE large number of cars and motor vehicles owned and operated in Cedar City, which number num-ber is ever increasing, demands the more rigid enforcement of the traffic laws already on our statute books and the enactment of requisite and necessary traffic ordinances by the City Council, regulating the parking of cars, conduct in traffic, etc. This, we arc informed, will receive attention by the .Council in the very near future. In the mean time, our attention has been called to a provision of tho.statc lav, prescribing who may and who may not drive or operate motor vehicles, which reads as follows: Sec. 13. No person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon any public street or highway, whether as owner or operator of such vehicle, if. under sixteen years of age or while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and no person shall take, use or operate any motor vehicle ve-hicle or motorcycle upon the public streets and highways without the permission of the owner thereof. (C. 80, 1915.) Last week a .boy under the lagal age obtained a jitney from a relative and took a number of his little j friends out for a ride, with the result that the car was , capsized and one of the little girls had her arm broken. Of course, accidents sometimes happen with fully matured chauffeurs, and it is sometimes the case that quite young lads are really more expert in the handling handl-ing of cars than their worthy sires, youth responding better to the acquisition of "new tricks." but still the law was deemed a proper one by our legislators, else it would not have been enacted, and it should be respected and enforced. |