Thursday May 29th, 1911
THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
HEW RAAD LAWS BP
THE LASUEGISLATTRE
Fire Improvement Hills, Affecting
Highway Construction and Main-,
tenanee rasxl t lt 8ekn.
The 1919 session of the Nebraska
legislature passed five Important
bills affecting highway construction
and maintenance throughout the
state. These bills, suinmarlxed, are
as follows:
8tte Highway System ltabllshed.
u,.. uoii 298 A bill providing
for a system of state highways, to in- (
elude seventy-nine new roud sec
tions, besides nine that were previ
ously laid out, are to be constructed
and Improved with stole and federal
fund? Kequires state engineer by
January 1, 1920. to nie with each (
mil 11 tv clerk a man showing all
state highways within the county.
Authorize a state highways depart
ment, which will build roads, to re-
Idpn then). (Julin-
U'ftiv, - v. - f " - .
ties are required to maintain state ,
roads, including bridges ana cul
verts, and to provide markers.
Where this Is not done, the State
Highways Department may do the
work and charge the cost against
any bulance lemaining to the coun
ly s credit.
Detour Koutes and Temporary
Closing.
The state highways department is
given authority to contract with
county boards for the use of road
machinery on state highways. It
may close temporarily any portion of
a state highway for the purpose of
repairing or improving It. Any one
tampering with signs announcing a
closed road will be subject to a $100
fine or thirty days in Jail, or both.'
Detour routes are to be provided
when regular roads are closed,
licenses Available for Itoad Con
struction. In addition to the state highway
fund, there are made availabe for
state road construction and mainten
ance the receipts from the 75. of
motor vehicle licenses paid over to
the department. The state engineer
is authorized to keep $5,000 deposit
ed in a bank, against which he may
draw official checks In payment of
small emergency claims for labor
and other things. He must file a
surety bond for $10,000 to cover his
acts In this connection. All emer
gency claims paid will be subject to
the approval of the State Highways
Board and the State Auditor.
HUtte Divided Into Project Districts.
Provision Is made for dividing the
State into project districts, wKh not
more than live counties to a district,
and these have been approved by the
Federal Good Roads Bureau. Each
county is to receive Its full share of
the Federal and State aid funds.
Automobile taxes paid In are to be
wed in the county in which same are
collected.
Weight and Highway Sign Regu
lated. The use of state highways is pro
hibited to motor vehicles over 7
feet wide or 12 feet high. Vehicles
with a load limit exceeding 600
pounds for each inch Trldth of wheel
tire are also barred. A truck which,
including Its own weight and cargo,
carries over 7,000 pounds combined
l.an on any one wheel, may not be
used on a state highway without spe:
clal permission of the State High
ways Board. Penalty, $50 to $500
I fine. . . ,
I State Highway Board, is given
authority to make rules bnd regula
! tlons for travel upon state high
ways, to be Issued In pamphlet form
and furnished free of charge to the
general public.
Advertising signs along or upon
them are forbidden, except by a writ
ten permit of the. Board, and upon
payment of a fee ranging from 25
cents to $5.00. No sign shall cover
more than ten square feet of surface.
Printed sale bills will not be consid
ered advertising signs. For operat
ing a vehicle so as to cause Immoder
ate wear or damage to a state high
way, or to endanger the safety of
others, a misdemeanor, penalty of
$25 to $100, or Jail term of thirty
days, or both. Is specified.
Motor License Fees Raised.
House Roll 299 This provides
for transfer of motor vehicle regis
tration and licensing bureau from
the ' Secretary of State's bureau to
the State Highways Department. An
entire revision and redrafting of old
law. Fixes annual license fees as
follows: Motorcycles and two-wheel
trucks of less than 1,000 pounds
weight, $5; automobiles, $10 mini
mum, with an additional 50 cents
for each 100 pounds weight above
2,000. Dealers will pay $1 apiece
for duplicate numbers. For trucks
and cars built to carry more than
seven passengers, the fee will be
based on the weight. When loaded
to capacity and each passenger's
weight will be calculated at 150
pounds. Publicly-owned vehicles
are exempt. After July 1 of each
year, the fee for the remainder of
that year will be one-half the regular
amount.
Method of Recording Application.
Records must be kept, both alpha
betically and In the numerical order
of applications filed, showing the
names of owners, numbers Issued,
and itemized data In regard to ea?h
machine, Including the make, en
gine, number of cylinders, and other
data.
These will be open to public In
spection. Number plates will be is
sued as heretofore. Lost number
plates will be replaced for $1 each.
Registration Fee to County Treas
urer. Registration fees are to be paid
to the county treasurer, wt". rill Bet
aside 25 of the money derived
therefrom for the county road drag
ging fund. The remainder,, will be
Bent to the State Treasurer and plac
ed in a Btate highway fund, to be
used In such manner that all the
money received from each county
shall be expended for road Improve
ment in that county. ,
Age and Speed Limitations Placed.
It is declared unlawful for any one
under 16 years of age, or any intoxi
cated person, to drive a motor vehi
cle. The speed limits prescribed are
"a reasonable and proper speed, hav
ing regard for the traffic and use of
the road and not such as to endanger
life or limb, with a mlxlmum of 35
miles per hour in the country. This
will not apply to physicians, sur
geons, police or fire vehicles answer
ing emergency cals. At an intersec
tion,' bridge, Bharp curve, or steep
incline, the speed is limited to 15
miles per hour.
In case of accident, the driver of a
car must Btop and render assistance,
carry any injur- d person to a pfcyt -clan,
surgeon or hospital, and give
information regarding his name, his
license number, and the names oi
any other passengers accompanying
him. Provision is made for lights,
warning signals an dbrakes, similar
to the regulations In the former stat
ute. Penalty for violation, fine not more
than $50 for first offense; $50 to
$100 fine, or jail term not more than
sixty days, or both, for each subse
quent offense. In case any person is
killed, maimed or disfigured through
the carelessness of any driver, fine of
$200 to $500 or one to ten years in
the penitentiary.
Purchase of 1jih1 and Materials
Authorized.
Senate File 112 Authorized State
Highways Board to acquire land and
appurtenances thereon, by purchase
and condemnation, purchase equip
ment and employ labor for the pur
pose of obtaining materials for con
struction and maintaining state
highways. Permits sale of any sur
plus of such materials to counties,
municipalities and contractors at
cost for road, 6treet and alley Im
provement. . Cost and proceeds to
come out of and be paid Into State
Aid Road Fund. Highways Board
may contract with Board of Control
for use of convict labor.
County Paving I jaw Repealed.
House Roll 68 Repeals county
paving law so far as counties of
20.000 to 40,000 population are
concerned, leaving it in effect only in
Lancaster and Douglas Counties.
W. J. LEO
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Makes petition sufficient if signed by
a majority of the resident property
owners chargeable with the cost of
the Improvement, on the basis oi 50,
25. 15 and 10 per cent In four tones
extending for a maximum distance of
two miles from the roadway to be
Improved.
State Aid Road Fund Created.
House Roll 800 Creates a state
aid road fund ad levies a tax f 3
mills for the years 1919 and 1920
for this fund. Appropriations there
from th sum of $1,546,631 for carb
of the two years, or $3,093,262 for
the bi?rnluni, to match an equal
amount of Federal aid funds. Re
quires f; te Highways rojrd to re
port monthly to the State Auditor
snd all county clerks the amount
credited to each county as Federal
nnd fiia:c aid. A separate account
Is to ho kept for each county, shi yv
Iiik "kpr-iiriu urea as w.diS 'or r a
work. County boards and highway
commissioners are to notify the
C-ovcvi'or if they have any objection
to the stpieinents as rendered, or to
the disbursements. Five per cent Is
eIIowoo: for engineering expenses
and I'dmlnifct ration of the law.
Kinergenc.
information concerning the require
ments of the examination msy be
secured front the postmaster at the
place of vacancy or from the Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D.
C. Applications should be properly
executed and filed with the Commis
sion at Washington, D. C, In time
to arrange for the examination of the
applicant.
The Beamans had just had their
firs qunrrel. and the bride sobbed
softly to herself as the male brute
whistled the air of a popular tune.
"Don't you think," asked the fair
young thing plaintively, "that a hus
band should occasionally tell his wife
;that she's beautiful?" "No!" replied
i the soulless beast. "It's wholly
superfluous! If she Is beautiful she
knows she is, and If she Isn't beauti
ful she thlnk's she is."
Post muster Kxainlnntlon.
At the request of the Postmaster
General the United States Civil
Service Commission has announced
an examination to be held nt Alli
ance, Nebr., on June 18 1919 for
the position of postmaster at Antl
orh. This office has an annual com
pensation of 1.500.
To be eligible for this examination
an applicant must be a citizen of the
United States, must actually reside
within the delivery of the office and
have so resided at the time the pre
sent vacancy occurred.
Applicants must have reached
their twenty-first but not their sixty
fifth birthday on the date of the ex
amination. Application Form 2241 and full
When a bellhop breezed thru the
lobby of the hotel whistling loudly
the manager pounced on him.
"Don't you know It's ncnliiBt the
rules for an employe to whistle while
on duty," he demanded sternly.
"Ain't whistling," protested the boy,
"I'm paging Mrs. Jones' dog."
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