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Show Wise up 3 get Utah pktes By CHERIE HUBER Davis County Sheriff Brant L. Johnson announced a planned county-wide crack down on Utah residents who drive with out of state license plates. SOME STATES do not charge a property prop-erty tax on vehicles and are reporting that many out of state vehicle owners are applying ap-plying for license plates in their states. In Utah 22 percent of the vehicle property tax is returned to the county coffers with 15 percent going to the city of residence. The school district is allocated 54 percent and the remainder is lumped into a miscellaneous mis-cellaneous fund for paramedics and mosquito mos-quito abatement. Johnson said that many Utahns fall into the category of "non-contributing residents" resi-dents" and he encouraged all public safety safe-ty departments to cooperate in this effort. RANDOMLY placed moving roadblocks road-blocks will be set up over the next few weeks and cars will be checked as they go by to confirm compliance with the state statute regarding vehicle registration. Sheriff Johnson said that the checks will not be made in tourist areas but in areas of high employment such as the Freeport Center. Licenses of cars delivering children to schools may also be checked. Under state law, a resident is defined as anyone who owns, leases or rents a place of residence or a place of business: who accepts gainful gain-ful employment: or who places their children chil-dren in public school. UNDER THE law, military personnel who are stationed here on orders and who have their vehicle registered in their home state of domicile, are exempt. University Uni-versity students from other states are also exempt provided they are paying the higher nonresident tuition fee and are not employed in the state. According to Sheriff Johnson, the sheriff's sher-iff's department is hoping that advanced publicity will put people on notice that they are in noncompliance and that residents resi-dents with cars registered out of state will comply with Utah law and avoid fines. |