| Show MAY KEEP TRACTOR OFF OF HIGHWAYS adoption of such rule rules and regula bious as will protect the highway highways of the state against serious damage by parties driving floated vehicle vehicles over them is urged on the state road corn ml mireion a and I 1 the h e county board 1 of i 0 w len nin rol r ol leu cumi tumi mi Mioner ner s in A an n opinion devid lenderd ren derd e tu t 0 day from the office of f attorney oen gen oral I 1 ll harvey arvey it cluff to governor charles R mabey the opinion cite cites that these cona commis bate lame authority to adopt such rule rules and regulation regulations as a will properly safeguard the interests of the public in the ho preservation of f the hard our ur fito h klawans ti tiery wRy and also 10 lo observes that the emit of thi th state boull probably y I 1 tiny party loins doing damage to by driving vel leles over the surface it nas brought t the attention of the attorney general generals office by gov arnor mabey who de declared eared that leveral instances had occurred where operator operators of the tractor tractors with cleate cleats and spikes fattened fastened oa on the wheel wheels had drivel over certain parte parts of the state roads im ira proved by hard bard surfacing and that in aca doing the pikes spikes or cleats have tune bael considerable damage the governor asked to be advised whether or not operator operators of trac tore to with buch such cleats or spikes epil iee or other projection projections securely lecure ly fastened fat ened to the wheel wheels had bad the th right to drive them over the roads and if pol 10 if the opera tore or owner owners of the tractors tra clor could be required by law to answer in damages for the injuries thin thus done to the roads or uffer buffer any penalty the opinion quote quotes from the law which itch make makes the roid road commission commie elon and the tc alies r ln the guardian guardians of the state highway highways the tho matter wa was taken up by william A Itil allton tort assistant attorney general who li Is acting attorney general la in the absence of harvey 11 II claff mr wr hi 1111 ton says ay roads are laid out and ocene I 1 for the ue use of all persons OB on an equal buin bu in that it Is the use of the hig highway hAnys must be a reasonable uie use ani subject to the reason regulation regulations of th the c legislature ft of the tati tat or of those to whom born the legisla legislature tire hai has le legated its it auti anti arity either in v hole or in part it to t palpable that tritt truc tors or or other vehicles or machinery with mith cleate 1 wheel wheels or spiked wl eel eels or wheels with other styles tyl of projections project lona fae fas bened to them seriously injure by in tearing digging up and breaking the surfaces of improved road roads and bess u much uie use of the roads ie Is topped stopped the early total destruction of the road roads so used aed ip I 1 al lutery cc tain it ii is lialas the opinion ay says that the legislature intended and did make the counties ani aul the state road trustee of the public roads of the tate state and the state road com mm mission is to formulate arul rulie out an 1 regulation regulations governing t the h e fit state road roads anil and to prescribe p pen c n altie for the violation ot of uch such regu lotions lations and orders the assistant attorney general ile de lard further that the law wh says no tra tractor etor engine or other vercle weighing more than two tone tons hall shall tuil to protect the edges of the la ement in driving on or off of the road roads woul I 1 in hie his opinion bo be construed by the court courts to over cover euch such an ai as in jurt jurl R i the surface of the |
