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Show Traffic Court Confab Sessions Point To Law Revision Need A series of ten sessions of the 1956 Utah Traffic Court Confer-, ence, held throughout the state and concluded recently, has favored a change In handling Juvenile traffic offenders. A majority ma-jority of the conferences favored the transfer of Juvenile traffic cases form the Juvenile court to the adult traffic courts. I It has been held that the offenses of-fenses by Juveniles are the same as those of adults and that if youngsters are to enjoy the same privileges as the adults in the way of driving autotnobiles they should be controlled by the same laws and penalties when they fail to observe traffic laws as set up for streets and highways. Much sentiment was also expressed ex-pressed at the conferences for a drastic change in Utah's drunken driving statute relating to chemical chem-ical tests for alcohol. It was suggested sug-gested that such tests could be made mandatory upon request of an officer. Refusal to submit to such a test would make a person per-son liable to suspension of his driver's Jlcense. Such a law would be similar to the Idaho and New York laws which have been upheld by the courts. Records Re-cords of the Department of Public Pub-lic Safety have shown nearly a 50 per cent increase in revocations revoca-tions of licenses for drunken driving over the past four years'. The conferences were held under un-der the joint auspices of the Governor, Gov-ernor, Supreme Court, Attorney . General, Department of Public Saftey and the Utah Safety Coun-cil. Coun-cil. Supreme Court Justice J. Allan Al-lan Crockett served as conference confer-ence director for the series, and was aided by Earl Spafford, Deputy De-puty Attorney General. George C. MiUer, Director of Drivers' Licenses, Li-censes, and G. Ernest Bourne, Executive Secretary, Utah Safety Council. |
