Drivers License

Drivers License soon to be required in Seguin
    Senator Wirtz has introduced a bill into the Legislature which should become a law; the bill creating a Drivers License Law would require all persons driving an auto of any kind to undergo a suitable examination by some designated attorney to determine their ability to drive.  Persons allowing minors or incompetent persons to drive their cars would be punishable by revocation of their license for a period of one year.  Drivers would be requested to renew their license yearly.  Person under sixteen years would not be permitted to drive a car.
    Others to whom licensed would not be issued are habitual drunkards or persons additcted to the use of narcotics, those adjudged insane or an idiot, embicile, epileptic or feebleminded, those afflicted with disease which would be detrimental to their ability of controlling a vehicle and those unable to understand road sign warnings in the English Language.
    Drivers of private cars would be taxed 50 cents for the drivers license while drivers of taxicabs and buses will be taxed $3 and required to wear a metal badge showing the number of their licenses.
    Cases where the license would be revoked are when the driver is convicted or manslaughter as the result of an accident in which he is involved:  driving a car while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs, conviction for any crime punisable as a felony under the motor ve
hicle laws of the state, conviction for forfeiture of ball upon, three charges of reckles driving at an excessive speed, all within the preceding 12 months and several other points
Seguin Enterprise, January 25, 1929

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