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Show AUTO LEGISLATION IN CALIFORNIA A measure embodying the control and protection of automobiles, and all other users of (he public highways as Well, shortly is to be introduced in California state legislature by rep-I resentatlves of the Automobile Club ol southern California, which lor four years has been gathering da'a along this line. Since the lasi meeting of the Call- luinia leglBIMlUTV ill" UfV oi uib tuur mobile has grown tremendously in that state and the machines themselves them-selves have changed in like measure N rw automobile laws urgently ire ; needed, motorists maintain, and it Is certain Liere will be no lack of BUCb I measure. introduced during the prc?-ent prc?-ent session I "Tbe officials of the club have ob talned copies of the statutes in force in every state of the union relative to the control of automobile traffic and also the regulations of the principles prin-ciples best adapted to California on-j ditio'is and have embodied their In I this m' asure, which I an corfi len; is worthy of the heartiest r.upport Th- m v. measure provides among) o:ber ;hlngs fo the ye.irly registrar lion of cars. A yearly te of -J will be imposed and license tags will be devised so it will be plainly visible what year's registration the car bears The club lu its measure provides lor no further taxation of automobiles. Cars at present are taxed as personal! property and it Is the belief or the oim ials of the club that a further tax Imposed by the state would be In the I nat ire of double taxation mi! there- j fore unconstitutional. "Examination: and licensing of pro- I fesslonal chauffeurs Is provided for I in the new law. All drivers arc to' j be licensed in Lhc sense that a judge may. on the presentation of convincing convinc-ing evldeuee. remove the right o' any j driver to operate a car, for any ! lengtn of lime or Indefinitely, if he, I has been guilty of reckless driving "Stealing a car or 'borrowing' It I without the owner's consent is to be! made a felony under the new measure meas-ure "The law also provides that all I vehicles using the state roads at night shall display two white lights visible at 8 distance of no' less than 250 feet arid a red light in the rear California, In the fiscal year 1911-1912, 1911-1912, received from her automobiles something over (62,000 at there are I no about 76,000 automobiles in the state. New York, from 84,000 auro-mobiles, auro-mobiles, collected nearly $900,000. The proposed schedule of license taxes which, it Is estimated, will bring' to the state road fund $600,000 per year is as follows. Automobiles, twenty-five to thirty horsepower or less, $5 per year, twenty-five to thirty-five horsepower $10: thirty-five to I fifty horsepower. $15; above fifty , horsepower. ?20. Trucks and com-, com-, mercial vehicles. $5 per year. Sight - seeing automobiles, $20 per year. Motorcycles. 20 per year The bill requires the display of li-I li-I cense number plates on both roof and read Illuminated at night The tags are lo be furnished by the license officials of-ficials office and are to be changed In color each year Penalties are prescribed for owners failing to ob- taln and display license plates within ten lays alter acquiring a machine and owners desirous of receiving the same number from year to year may do no Automobile dealers and man ufacturers receive plates marked With the letter M " at $10 yer year ! flat license and $ each for tiny plates t they take out for testing and demon -j strating cars A license of $2 per year Is fixed for chauffeurs The bill will provide that no law may be enacted requiring automobiles to travel at less than twel 6 miles per hour, and will fix I thirty miles per hour as the lawinl maximum. The bill does not. as does of New York act. relieve automobile owners ol a personal properly lax ou their machines, it provides that ihe secretary of state shall isue the li censes and turn over the funds collected col-lected to the state highway commission, commis-sion, which shall apportion them 'hem among the counties - |