Chap. 38.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (e) of section 29 of chap-
ter 149 of the Acts of 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor
vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and
duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration
of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect
of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauf-
feurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in con-
flict herewith, approved March 17, 1926. {H B 10]

Approved February 21, 1928.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section (e) of section twenty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty-
nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled an
act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide
for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the
title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles
thereto and the issuance of certificates of title: to prescribe the
effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor
vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts
and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, be amended and re-enacted, so as
to read as follows:

Section 29. (e). Incorporated towns and cities may levy and
assess taxes and charge license fees and taxes upon vehicles as
heretofore, such license fees and taxes to be charged, imposed and
assessed in such manner, on such basis, and for such period, as the
proper authorities of such incorporated towns and cities may deter-
mine.

Every manufacturer, agent or dealer in machines, on or before
the first day of January in each year, or before he commences to
operate machines to be sold by him, shall make application to the
motor vehicle commissioner for a dealers’ certificate of registration
and license. The application shall state the make of the machines
handled by the manufacturer, agent or dealer. On the payment
of the fee of fittv dollars ($50.00) a certificate of registration and
license shall be issued to the dealer in such form as may be pre-
scribed by the commissioner. For such fee the commissioner shall
issue to such dealer three sets of number plates, and for each
additional set in excess of three a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per
set shall be paid, provided the fee for a motorcycle dealer shall be
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first three sets of plates and
seven dollars ($7.00) for each additional set of plates.

It shall be unlawful for any such manufacturer, dealer, agent or
any other person to use such number plates other than on machines
used exclusively for sale purposes, and any violation of this section
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and
not more than fifty dollars ($50.00).

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force and effect from
its passage.