Show 5 0 mite to ail cars AT erly I 1 lake city april 5 af rj may a y 8 n next ext i if f you are v lf at driving an improperly registered motor vehicle be it motorcycle mo passenger car or a I 1 truck bettor batter approach the court prepared to write a sizeable check checkor tio arto spend a term in the county tailua ta ilUf the court finds vou IOU hii the th minimum fine it may impose is is 50 under an act passed b by the 1951 legisla tu reThs fine can not be more than A jail term of not more than six months may be imposed or the sentence may in elude both fine and jail sent cn Wh what atthe the legislature was seek ing was a way to make it decidedly unprofitable to be caught y the I 1 highways with an overy elded truck T the e mn minimum in um and 4 I 1 daum penalties above noted mra established for violators of either of two sections of the law each of which deals with the mairn maximum urn loads trucks may legally carry but one of the sections to a 11 he jenai penalty alty was made to apply is the section which fixes the passenger car and motorcycle fees as well as the truck fees this section also provides that the gross load permitted on highways of the state of utah shall not exceed three times the actual weight of the vehicle the legislature spent much time considering whether trucks are paying a proper share of the cost of und and maintaining the roads they use but the net result was that the laws were left pretty much as they have been A bill to change the truck fees was vetoed by gov alra kan lee on suggestion of the tax commission which made an intensive study of the bill itar it had been amended P in both houses the same kvame fate and after similar procedure befell the motor vehicle re reciprocity Ip rocity biu bill which would have affected the ahe revenue derived by the state from the operation of trucks july 1 the legislature enacted and the governor approved a bill to permit commercial vehicles to operate bior a calendar quarter in utah on payment of 30 percent of the an nual ngi registration fee this may prove a happy solution for the problem created when for example a contractor from adoth I 1 or cr state has occasion to use heavy equipment in utah for a compart comparatively ively short time A proposal to permit the issuance of I 1 single trip bermis c en ci i payment of two percent of the annual fee ath a minimum minima n of however failed to meet the approval of the lawmakers another new law affecting motor vehicle registration p permits pr the state tax commission commission com to use it its discretion in providing motor vehicle li license cerise plate other than the steel plates that haye been generally used similar authority was temporarily granted the co mission during the staci shortage in wolard war II 11 but the new amendment A is s designed as a permanent law rather than an emergency measure |