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Show oo MOTOR ID TRSFFIC LIS CUMBERSOME Simplification is to be the keynote of the new uniform motor vehicle and traffic law which will bo promulgated in a short time by the legislative board of the A. A. A. The motor vehicle laws now on the statute books of most of the states are unnecessarily long and cumborsome. Duplication and further confusion exists where a state has separate motor vehicle and traffic laws on Its books. "Highway traffic in its final analysis analy-sis is but a single problem," says Chairman O. I. Yellott, "whether it relates re-lates to motor cars, horse-drawn vehicles, ve-hicles, traction engines or pedestrians. Traffic should be handled as one problem prob-lem by one general set of laws, so that the rules governing one particular kind of traffic may fit Into and be consistent with those governing all other kinds of traffic. "The details of the uniform law to be framed by the A. A. A. board have not yet been fully worked out, but it may be stated In a general way that the first subdivision will deal with general gen-eral provisions relating to the applicability applica-bility of the law and definitions of terms used therein. The second subdivision sub-division will deal with the appoint ment, powers and duties of a state traffic commissioner, who will have general supervision of traffic of all kinds on the public highways. The third subdivision will deal with the registration of motor vehicles and operators. op-erators. The fourth will deal with the operation of vehicles of all kinds on the public highways, as well as with the conduct of pedestrians thereon. The fifth will deal with the enforcement enforce-ment of tho preceding provisions. "Thus each subdivision of the proposed pro-posed law will be almost wholly self-contained, self-contained, thereby doing away with a great deal of the confusion which now exists in so many state laws by reason rea-son of different kinds of provisions be-' ing intermingled. But the idea of sim-1 plification will be carried still further The provisions relating to the traffic commissioner will be made quite brief and very simple. One section will define de-fine his duties, another his powers, both in like general terms. Broad provisions pro-visions will be used to extend these duties du-ties and powers as far as may be necessary nec-essary to accomplish the general objects ob-jects of his appointment The courts, as a rule, may safely be trusted to amplify provisions of this kind with much more satisfactory results than wher the lawmaker himself attempts to enumerate all such duties and powers pow-ers in great detail.' |