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Toll roads were always the method by which the States maintained the highways. It's the original "pay-as-you-go" system.
Consider this ruling from Ca: "The court makes it clear that a license relates to qualifications to engage in profession, business, trade or calling; thus, when merely traveling without compensation or profit, outside of business enterprise or adventure with the corporate state, no license is required of the natural individual traveling for personal business, pleasure and transportation.." Wingfield v. Fielder 2d Ca. 3d 213 (1972).
See the Date? 1972! While most of the cases are from the early part of the century, there are many recent cases that continue to say the same thing! Licensing and vehicle registrations are for commercial purposes only and can not be applied to the common man who is about his ordinary purposes.
Here's the tibit that links all state vehicle codes directly to commercial purposes:
On August 20, 1926, the first version of the Uniform Vehicle Code (U.V.C.) was published by the U. S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This was an attempt (by the D.O.T.) to set federal standards for the regulation of motor vehicles and drivers for interstate commerce. By examining the Statutes At Large, Volume 44, one finds the prior session (first) ran from December 7th, 1925 to July 3rd 1926, the last act of that session being approved July 13th. The next (second) session started December 6th 1926 and ran to March 4th 1927, with acts being enacted as early as December 8th. Since Congress was not in session to pass the U.V.C., and also, being that an examination of the table of laws of the first session does not reveal the U.V.C., it appears it was published under authority of the D.O.T. It is therefore strictly United States commercial law. Since that time it has been revised thirteen times. The states have adopted the U.V.C. into their statutes as a comparison between it and your State's regulation statutes will reveal, and as is claimed by the U.V.C. itself.
Toll roads were always the method by which the States maintained the highways. It's the original "pay-as-you-go" system.
Yeah, I was surprised when I first began to read Chicago Coach Co. v. City of Chicago. It's probably the best case that illustrates that while the State may impose traffic regulations, it can't impose much else upon citizens right to travel.
Consider this ruling from Ca: "The court makes it clear that a license relates to qualifications to engage in profession, business, trade or calling; thus, when merely traveling without compensation or profit, outside of business enterprise or adventure with the corporate state, no license is required of the natural individual traveling for personal business, pleasure and transportation.." Wingfield v. Fielder 2d Ca. 3d 213 (1972).
See the Date? 1972! While most of the cases are from the early part of the century, there are many recent cases that continue to say the same thing! Licensing and vehicle registrations are for commercial purposes only and can not be applied to the common man who is about his ordinary purposes.
Here's the tibit that links all state vehicle codes directly to commercial purposes:
On August 20, 1926, the first version of the Uniform Vehicle Code (U.V.C.) was published by the U. S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This was an attempt (by the D.O.T.) to set federal standards for the regulation of motor vehicles and drivers for interstate commerce. By examining the Statutes At Large, Volume 44, one finds the prior session (first) ran from December 7th, 1925 to July 3rd 1926, the last act of that session being approved July 13th. The next (second) session started December 6th 1926 and ran to March 4th 1927, with acts being enacted as early as December 8th. Since Congress was not in session to pass the U.V.C., and also, being that an examination of the table of laws of the first session does not reveal the U.V.C., it appears it was published under authority of the D.O.T. It is therefore strictly United States commercial law. Since that time it has been revised thirteen times. The states have adopted the U.V.C. into their statutes as a comparison between it and your State's regulation statutes will reveal, and as is claimed by the U.V.C. itself.
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