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Show 1 JUlDICI! OVER JITWEY CASES Elimination of the Insurance requirement require-ment from the new rules governing operation op-eration of automobile stage lines and "jitney" busses in Utah has been de elded upon by the stato public utilities commission. In the old rules it was required that operators tako out an Insurance policy of 310,000 on each vehicle, but Judge Joshua Greenwood, president of the commission, has decided that inasmuch inas-much as that body is not a legislative one it Is without the power to legislate legis-late an insurance feature into the rules. He says that It is the principal duty of the commission to see that patrons of auto stage lines are protected pro-tected by the use of safety devices and by the employment of competent drivers and, also, that th'ey are protected pro-tected from imposition by exorbitant faro charges. The other members of the commission commis-sion concurred with Judge Greenwood in his opinion that enactment of ordinances ordi-nances requiring insurance against injury or death of passengers of auto stage lines and busses was a matter within the jurisdiction of city councils, coun-cils, city commissions and county boards of commissioners. Mr. Greenwood yesterday mentioned men-tioned Los Angeles as an example of city legislation in' the items of insurance insur-ance for patrons of auto vehicles and1 he expresses the opinion that in municipalities and county boards rst the power to cover this phase of transportation, trans-portation, the public utilities commis sion not desiring to encroach upon that ground. |