QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 2389)
After receiving the application and fee, the Director of Public Works must register or record the vehicle in a “Motor Vehicle Register” book, and issue to the applicant a numbered certificate of registration (in duplicate), entering its number in the Motor Vehicle Register.
It must include information sufficient to enable the vehicle and its owner to be identified.
Number plates must follow the color, size, and design selected by the Director of Public Works and contain Arabic numerals with a length of not less than one decimeter, with each stroke not less than one centimeter thick.
The Director of Public Works may issue a number plate for such vehicles with Arabic numerals at least five centimeters in length and at least one centimeter thick strokes.
A dealer may apply before January 1 each year for a general certificate of registration and a general distinguishing number or mark, listing required information. If approved, the Director issues one general certificate (in quadruplicate) and assigns the dealer a general distinguishing number or mark (also issued in quadruplicate). Vehicles manufactured, owned, controlled, kept, or handled for sale are treated as registered under that mark, except those for the dealer’s private use, which must be separately registered under Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6.
It must show the dealer’s name, residence, place of business, address, that the applicant is a dealer in motor vehicles, the general distinguishing number or mark, the kind/type/style/make of vehicles manufactured, sold, or kept/handled for sale, and other expedient information deemed by the Director.
No dealer shall operate motor vehicles for hire unless the vehicles are registered in accordance with Sections 3 and 4.
No person shall operate recklessly or at a speed greater than is reasonable and proper considering factors such as highway width, traffic, grades, crossings, curvatures, other conditions, and also atmospheric and weather conditions. The operation must not endanger property, safety, rights of persons, and must not cause excessive/unreasonable damage to the highway.
Exceeding 20 mph is prima facie evidence that the operator is driving at a speed greater than reasonable and proper and thus violating Section 24.
If the speed exceeds 15 miles per hour in those situations, it is prima facie evidence of violation.
If the vehicle exceeds 10 miles per hour while passing such street railway car on the same side where passengers are ordinarily received and discharged, it is prima facie evidence of violation.
It prohibits any person from unreasonably obstructing or impeding the passage/right of travel of any motor vehicle or operator, and prohibits any operator from unreasonably obstructing the passage of any other vehicle or person on any highway.
A fine of not less than five nor more than fifty pesos or imprisonment of not more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Any operator of a motor vehicle for let or hire who drinks intoxicating beverage while on duty, any such operator who operates within one hour after having partaken of any intoxicating beverage, and any person operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor are punishable.
A fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty pesos or imprisonment of not less than fifteen days nor more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
They must bear two lamps in front (one on each side). From not later than one-half hour after sunset until at least one-half hour before sunrise, the front lights must be lighted and must render a man dressed in dark clothing visible at least 100 feet ahead; the light thrown forward must be white.
Additional lamps may be carried. If one additional lamp is carried, it must be affixed midway between the two required front lamps. If two additional lamps are carried and one is lighted, the other must also be lighted.