Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-04-23
NO. III


AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS
1850, 1000 AND 1893 OF THE GEN
ERAL LAWS, RELATING TO
MOBILES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section I. Section 1850 of the Cen
eral Laws is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Sec 1850. A person who drives an
automobile or motor truck faster than
ten miles all hour or who drives horse
or other beast, faster than walk, on
bridge with string pieces thirty feet
long between the supports, or on
bridge supported by one or more arches,
or drives on any such bridge more than
one loaded team, or more than twenty
head of cattle, horses or mules, on any
one tier of string pieces, or on any one
arch at the same time, shall forfeit FIVE
dollars, with damages for injuries
thereby done to the bridge which may
be recovered in an action of tort, on this
statute, i'll the name and for the benefit
of the town or corporation liable for the
repairs of the bridge, with costs.
Sec. 2. Section 1900 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 1900. A person who drives
faster than walk, or who operates an
automobile or motor truck faster than
ten miles an hour, on bridge more
than eighty feet in length shall forfeit
| five dollars, with damages for injuries
thereby done to the bridge, which may
be recovered in an action of tort, on this
statute, in the name of the town or cor
| porot;o,, 1;ah1a for raoa,ro pf t1,a hr;Io,o
with costs.
Sec. g. The selectmen shall on or be-
fore the first day of June, nineteen hum
dred and nineteen, place or cause to be
placed on all bridges referred to in the
two preceding sections, notice that
can be read one hundred feet in either
direction, stating the speed at which
traffic may be operated over such bridge.
Sec. d. Section 1853 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec 1853. In case a nonresident,
other than foreign corporation doing
business in this state, operates an auto
mobile or motor vehicle in this state
during the exemption period granted by
the preceding section and said nom
resident desires to operate an auto
mobile or motor vehicle for longer
period, said nonresident shall make
application for the registration of the
automobile or motor vehicle which he
desires to operate and for an operators
license in the same manner as residents;
provided, however, that said nonresident
may register an automobile or motor
vehicle for period of four months and
the fee for such registration shall be
an amount equal to half of the an
nual registration fee of such automobile
or motor vehicle. The fee for an
operators license or for chauffeurs
license shall be the same as for resi-
dents. If a nonresident who has regis
tered an automobile or motor vehicle
for a period of four months, operates
such automobile or motor vehicle after
such period, he shall be subject to the
same provisions of law as to the regis
tration of an automobile or motor
vehicle as residents and in case of
registration after such four months, the
amount paid by said nonresident for
such four months registration shall be
deducted from the amount of the fee re-
quired for annual registration. The
word Nonresident" as used in this
chapter shall apply to residents of states
or countries who have no regular place
of abode or business in this state for
period of more than three months in the
calendar year.
Approved April 4, 1910.