Chap. 422.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to license and regulate
the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and con-
veyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and
over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of
the sume; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof.
and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations
and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act
to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles
and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and
over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration
of the sume; to provide uniform rules and regulating the use and speed
thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March
17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and
for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for viola-
tions of this act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected
under this act Into the State treasury and the expenditure of same in
the maintenance and construction of the State aid roads and bridges,
approved March 24, 1916. {ll B 127]

Approved March 27, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles,
locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power
is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this
State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uni-
form rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe
penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the
licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regu-
late the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and
conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and
over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registra-
tion of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and
speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, ap-
proved March seventeen, nineteen hundred and ten; and further,
to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor
vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this
act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under
this act, into the State treasury and «he expenditure of same in tlie
maintenance and construction of State aid roads and bridges, ap-
proved March twenty-four, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 15. In addition to such fine or imprisonment, any person
violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable for damages
actually sustained by reason of such violation; and the justice issuing
the warrant may, at any time, require the owner or driver or party
in charge of the car, to deposit with such justice a sum in case suf-
ficient to pay costs and possible damages, or may require a bond, with
sufficient security, to pay such judgment as may be awarded. If no
such deposit is made or bond executed, within the time prescribed,
the machine may be seized and impounded anywhere in the State,
upon order of a justice of the city or county, in which the offense
is committed or damage done, regardless of whether a criminal prose-
cution has been instituted or not, and ordered sold to pay such judg-
ment for damage, and costs.

But before any trial shall be had in said proceedings, the owners
of such machine shall have notice thereof, in the manner provided
by law, and allowed an opportunity to make defense; and the driver
of the machine shall be deemed an agent of the owner for the pur-
pose of serving process.