Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 2639.)
The purpose of Act No. 2639 is to amend Act No. 2159 by regulating the use of headlights on motor vehicles, along with other provisions related to motor vehicle registration, licensing, and traffic regulation in the Philippine Islands.
The registration fee is twenty centavos per horsepower for all motor vehicles except motorcycles and motor trucks.
It is fifty pesos for the first one thousand kilos or fractional part of carrying capacity and four pesos for each additional five hundred kilos or fraction thereof over two hundred kilos, as determined by the Director of Public Works.
Three-fourths of the annual fee shall be paid if registration is done during that period.
No, tourists sojourning for two months or less are exempt from paying the registration fees.
They must bear two lamps in front, one on each side, lighted no later than half an hour after sunset until at least half an hour before sunrise, with lights that make a person visible for 30 meters ahead and projecting a white light ahead.
The use of headlights that project a beam visible more than seventy-five centimeters above the ground at a distance of twenty meters or more is prohibited within poblaciones.
Vehicles must have a lamp throwing white light on the number plate to make it legible from 18 meters away and a red light to the rear.
Yes, vehicles may carry additional lamps. If one additional lamp is carried, it must be affixed midway between the two required lamps. If two additional lamps are carried and one is lighted, the other must also be lighted.
Such vehicles must bear a lamp in front throwing a white light ahead during the required hours.