Is YOUR Right of Public Vehicular Travel a Privilege Granted by the State???

[Mr. T]

Motor vehicle code is privilege, but - public vehicular travel is a right!

 

 

Is YOUR right of public vehicular travel a privilege granted by the State??? Can a common right be converted into a privilege? Can a common right be a privilege at the same time, can such a right be both?

 

“The right to travel interstate by auto vehicle upon the public highways may be a privilege or immunity of citizens of the United States. Compare Crandall v. Nevada, 6 Wall. 35. A citizen may have, under the Fourteenth Amendment, the right to travel and transport his property upon them by auto vehicle. But he has no right to make the highways his place of business by using them as a common carrier for hire. Such use is a privilege which may be granted or withheld by the state in its discretion, without violating either the due process clause or the equal protection clause. Packard v. Banton, 264 U.S. 140, 144[.]” See Buck v. Kuykendall, 267 U.S. 307, 314 (1925).

"It will be observed that . . . a highway, within the contemplation of the act, is, "Every way or place of whatever nature open as a matter of right to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular travel." There can be no question but that this definition is broad enough to include streets in incorporated cities, because they are open as a matter of right to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular travel." See Neeley v. Bock, 184 Wash. 135, 140, 50 P.2d 524 (1935).

 

Do you drive an automobile, or do you drive a motor vehicle? Do you owe "motor vehicle fuel excise tax"? Traffic tickets, license plates, title and registration, same question? Anybody?

 

Revised Code of Washington 9A.56.075 Taking motor vehicle without permission in the second degree.

(1) A person is guilty of taking a motor vehicle without permission in the second degree if he or she, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to possession, intentionally takes or drives away any automobile or motor vehicle, whether propelled by steam, electricity, or internal combustion engine, that is the property of another, or he or she voluntarily rides in or upon the automobile or motor vehicle with knowledge of the fact that the automobile or motor vehicle was unlawfully taken.

(2) Taking a motor vehicle without permission in the second degree is a class C felony. [2003 c 53 § 73.]

 

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