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Show MOTOR-VEHICLE AND GASOLINE TAX That the people are becoming aroused to this matter of motor vehicle and pasoline tax diversion is evident in the new I laldcn-Cart Wright Road act recently signed by President Roose-e!t. Roose-e!t. Section 12 of that bill reads as follows: "Since it is unfair and unjust to tax motor vehicle transportation transporta-tion unless the proceeds of such taxation are applied to the construct con-struct i.n, improvement, or maintenance of highways, after June :!(), 1935, federal aid for highway construction shall be extended only to those states that use at least the amounts now provided by law for such purposes in each state from state motor vehicle registration fees, licenses, g-asoline taxes, and other special taxes on motor-vehicle owners and operators of all kinds for the construction, con-struction, improvement, and maintenance of highways and administrative ad-ministrative expenses in connection therewith, including the retirement re-tirement of bonds for the payment of which such revenues have been pledged, and for no other purposes; under such regulations its the Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate from time to time: Provided, That in no case shall the provisions of this section operate to deprive any state of more than one-third of the amount to which that state wKuld be entitled under any apportionment hereafter had, for the fiscal year for which the apportionment is made." Highway Magazine. o |