Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-25

the term Of one year from their respce-
tive dates Of issue unless sooner sus-
pended or revoked
Sec. 4. a dealer shall not loan num-
Der plates 20 a subagcnt
Sec. s. An automobile or motor
vehicle shall not be registered on or
after August first in any year on the
basis of one-half of the annual repistra-
ton fec unless Il appears to said secrc-
tary that such automobile or motor
vehicle was not operated on the high
WAYS Of this state by tho applicant for
registration prior to August first in such
year
Sec. O. Section 1000 Of the Public
Statutes (Sec. $500 of tho General Laws,
rs proposed is hereby amended so as
TO read as follows
Sec. 1000. (Scc. 4soo G.. L. 4 per-
son having control or charge Of an auto
mobile or motor vehicle shall. whenever
upon a public highway and approaching
a vehicle drawn BY a horse or other
draft animal, or approaching horse or
other animal upon which a person is rid
ing operate, manage and control such
automobile or motor vehicle in such a
manner as 10 exercise every reasonable
precaution TO prevent the frightening Of
such horse or animal aud 10 insure the
safety and protection Of the person rid
ing or driving the same If such a
horse or animal appears to be frightened
and the driver or rider of the same
stops hum because OF such fright. the
person IN control or charge OF such auto
mobile or motor vehicle shall stop the
same and shall not proceed towards such
horse or animal until such horse or ami
NAL has passed such automobile or motor
vehicle, or reached a place of safety,
unless the driver or rider of such horse
or animal signals the person in control
or charge of such automobile or motor
vehicle to advance.
Sec. :. No person shall operate or
attempt to operate an automobile or
motor vehicle while under the influence
OF Intoxicating liquors or drugs A per-
son who violates provision of this sec
ton shall be fined not more than five
hundred dollars or imprisoned not more
than two years, or both. The secretary
of state shall forthwith, after being mott
fed of the conviction of a person for
having violated a provision of this sec
ton, revoke the operators or special or
professional chauffeur's license of said
person. No license shall be issued to
said person until the expiration of one
year from the date of such revocation
and then only upon the presentation of
due proof to said secretary that said
person is proper person to whom a
license should be issued.
Sec. 8. The operator of an automobile
or motor vehicle who knowing that in
jury has been caused to a person or
property. due to the cuipability of the
said operator, or to accident, leaves the
place of said injury or accident, with
out Immediately stopping and rendering
such assistance as may reasonably be
necessary and proper under the circum-
stances of the case, or without stopping
and giving his name, residence, and
license number, to the injured party, or
to a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable,
police officer, or a justice of the peace,
or who fails, within twenty-four hours
after such injury TO report to the secre-
tary of state the facts concerning such
injury shall be fined not more than FIVE
hundred dollars or be imprisoned not
more than two years, or both; provided,
however, that the terms of this section
shall not apply in cases where the value
of the property damaged does not exceed
five dollars.
Said secretary shall forthwith after
receiving notice of an accident where a
personal injury occurs, and may, in case
of notice of an accident where an injury
occurs to property, notify the states at
torney of the county where said accident
occurred, and said states attorney shall
forthwith investigate the facts connected
with such accident and may hold an in
quest as provided by section $500 of the
Public Statutes. (Sec. 6445 G. L.
Said states attorney shall forthwith,
after such investigation or inquest, re-
port to said secretary the result of such
investigation or inquest together with his
recommendation as to the suspension or
revocation of the license of said opera
tor. A person who operates or attempts
to operate an automobile or motor
vehicle on the public highway while his
operators or special or professional
chauffeur's license is not in force, on
account of the suspension or revocation
of the same, shall be fined not jnore than
five hundred dollars or be imprisoned
not more than two years. or both.
Sec. O. This act is hereby declared TO
be a part of chapter TO of the Public
Statutes och. Io2 g. L. and shall take
effect April first, 1917.
Approved March 2, 1917.