Show utah legislature the utah legislature met in special session january 3 in response to a call by gov GOT henry II 11 blood who gave the reason for the one week special meeting as follows to consider amend reject or ratify the proposed revision ot of the laws of the state of utah as heretofore prepared and printed by the code commission appointed by the supreme court of the state under the provisions of chapter 10 laws ot of utah 1917 and chapter 37 laws ot of utah inn 1029 and the proposed amendments thereof by the utah iti legislative flattre code committee under the provisions of chapter CI 61 laws of utah 1931 and the proposed amendments by the said utah legislative code committee of the laws of utah not dot included in the revision by the said code commission under the provisions of chapter 61 laws of utai utah 1931 the magnitude of the task which tile tho legislature Is attempting Is shown by the tact fact that the work of the code committee appointed to prepare the new code covers over 1100 pages of a hook book each page of which Is 7 by 11 inches in size and a proposed code covering over 1300 additional pages this proposed code Is not the exact bill that the legislature will be called upon to pass it does docs contain the probable language of the bill and also the annotations history of each section and in tact fact the codified law as it Is proposed they shall be printed the history of each section in the codes of civil v and criminal procedure Is given but the voluminous annotations of interest to the bar have not yet been completed and were riot not included in the past when a member of the legislature desired to change a law 0 of utah he had to look tor for the amended law not only in the compiled piled laws of 1917 a ponderous volume but also in the laws passed by each legislature since 1917 including seven regular and two special sessions even then he Is not certain ot of his legislative work since at present the same subject is often treated in widely different parts of the compiled laws once the code has ben adopted future legislation can be made b by reference to the adopted code which Is logically arranged carefully cross indexed and in facts will be the only volume on the subject with which the legislator need concern himself the report of the joint committee on procedure for consideration of the proposed code revision says we recommend that the following procedure in connection with the consideration of such code be followed that the several titles in the proposed revised code be referred to the appropriate standing committees of the house and senate that such committees give proper opportunity for public hearings on matters of revision to which objection Is made that changes to be made in the proposed code revision be limited to such changes as may be necessary a to reinstate existing law where reinstatement Is desirable b to restore existing law which has been changed in in the proposed revisions where such change Is objectionable c to eliminate any new matter it if found objectionable whether the proposed code revision Is being railroaded land and carries concealed in its more than one thousand pages of bills hundreds or thousands or only five or six matters that deserve legislative attention and decision and whether or not special interests are attempting to ring in the old joker Ss Is to be thrashed out the work of the special session has been to appoint committees to study the proposed changes giving the various committees certain laws as their special work in addition public hearings hearing gs have been set tor for fill all protested matters in the code which are of record to date if other protests are made hearing dates will be assigned to them it Is expected some time early in the regular session possibly in the third or fourth week the revised code will have been adopted and the regular session will be able to take up the volume of work which it will have to perform in some quarters it Is believed that this meeting of the legislature will go down in history a as q one ot of the most important since utah became a state due to the prevailing depression it Is contended that the falling tax tar returns will find the legislature facing questions that will compel very drastic action some of the changes proposed by the new code that are of interest to all citizens are that elective auditors in the first and second class cities and county auditors in counties with an assessed property valuation exceeding 20 10 million dollars may not serve more than one term changes in the laws covering corporations po rations a section in the industrial commission act has been deleted which forbids the courts to enjoin the enforcement of orders promulgated by the commission the report suggests that the revision of western insurance laws being prepared by the western association so of insurance commission lars era be considered for adoption |