Chap. 330.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2132 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, relating to motor vehicle
license taxes. (H B 261]

Approved March 20, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and thirty-two of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved September fifth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2132. Fees for various licenses.—The fee for the certificate
of registration and license and plate to be paid by the owner of the
machine shall be sixty cents per horse power, the horse power to be de-
termined by the rating formerly established by the association of li-
censed automobile manufacturers and now known as the standard horse
power formula of the society of automobile engineers.

Provided, that no fee for an automobile shall be less than thirteen
dollars and twenty cents ($13.20) per year, and no fee for a motorcycle
shall be less than five dollars ($5.00) per year and two dollars ($2.00)
additional for side car attached, and provided, further, that in lieu of the
horse power tax above prescribed, the fee for a truck shall be based on
the ton capacity of such truck or trailer and shall be as follows: one
ton or less capacity, fifteen dollars ($15.00) ; one and one-half ton capac-
ity, twenty dollars ($20.00); two ton capacity, thirty dollars ($30.00);
two and one-half ton capacity, forty dollars ($40.00) ; three ton capacity,
sixty dollars ($60.00); three and one-half ton capacity, eighty dollars
($80.00) ; four ton capacity, one hundred and ten dollars ($110.00) ; four
and one-half ton capacity, one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) ; five
ton capacity, two hundred dollars ($200.00). Tractors with trailers
used on the public roads shall be classed as trucks and shall pay the same
fees based on tonnage of the trailers, and the fee for trailers shall be ten
dollars ($10.00) for the first ton capacity and three dollars ($3.00) addi-
tional for each half ton or fraction thereof in excess of one ton. No
such vehicle shall be operated on such road in which the limit of load
per inch in width of tire shall exceed seven hundred pounds, rubber
tires to be measured between the flanges of the rim, and the use on the
public roads of any truck or trailer exceeding the weight and capacity
hereinbefore prescribed shall be a misdemeanor and punished by a fine
of not less than ten dollars or more than twenty dollars.

One-half of the license fee herein required to be paid by the owner
of a machine shall be collected whenever such license is issued on or
after the first day of September in any year.

One-fourth of the license fee herein required to be paid by the
owner of a machine shall be collected whenever such license is issued
on or after the first day of November in any year.
These fees shall be paid to the secretary of the Commonwealth, whx
shall issue certificates of registration and license and number plates as
provided for in this chapter.

On and after February first in each and every year every dealer, owne!
or chauffeur, who shall operate a machine over the roads or streets of the
State, without first obtaining from the secretary of the Commonwealth
a license to operate the same, and display the license as provided by law
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than ten dollars no.
more than twenty dollars. Each day’s use of the machine without’
license shall constitute a separate offense in the discretion of the ‘magis-
trate or court trying the case.