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Show SEEK UNIFORM LiS AGAINST lUTOJHEFTS1 A. C. C. Drafts Act to Control Used Car Exchange As a solution lo the problem oil . hecking the " number of automo-Mle automo-Mle thefts throughout the- i ounto tne National Automobile Chamber of commerce com-merce has decided on Ihe encouragement encourage-ment of uniform state laws to control the exchange of used cars Tins decision is the result of an x-hauative x-hauative stud) .-r the subject by tn chamber. Th investigation roiiowao the rea.llia.tlOn that stein step WOUW hav to be taken soon to curb the ever-Inoreaelng ever-Inoreaelng number of thefts due to tne laxilv of the present laws. To help state legislature In 'his ef fort th chamber has drawn up model .jnti-thefi law- Which Will be presented to ail Btati assembles at the r lijl sessions. The law-, as drafted. 1 intended especially to regulate the purchase and sale of used motor V ! hides and p'art If prov ides for the licensing of the business of deuhng in second-hand ehi--les. and prohibits the removal, mutilation or altering o. makers' numbers. A state motor vehicle commissioner pro- Hied by this law. is to have charge of all records of sales and exchange of used cars, of all thefts and reco-eries reco-eries and of all cars held In storage !or for repair. I Affidavit describing the automobile to be transferred from one person to another must t.e filled out by both par-ona par-ona in ihe transBction and with th 'detniU of the transfer, must be filed 'with the Blate motor vehicle commis- sioner In iseof theft of a ar the motor hide commissioner of every state is tr, be notified and given description I of the stolen car by the commissioner 0.' the slate in which the theft occurred, oc-curred, un the recovery of a stolen car. jail commissioners are to be notified Under the same law every garage or repair shop mu' keep a descriptive record of every -ai left for storage or repair and must report to the police i if they find an identification mark or number mutilated or changed. oo |