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PUBLIC LAW 3 6 5 - M A Y 25, 1954

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(b) The Commissioners shall not suspend a license, registration, or nonresident's operating privilege, and shall restore any license, registration, or nonresident's operating privilege suspended following nonpayment of a judgment, when the judgment debtor gives proof of financial responsibility and obtains such an order permitting the payment of such judgment in installments, and while the payment of any said installments is not in default. SEC. 51. ACTION I F BREACH or AGREEMENT.—In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any installment as specified by such order, then upon notice of such deiFault, the Commissioners shall forthwith suspend the license, registration, or nonresident's operating privilege of the judgment debtor until such judgment is satisfied, as provided in this Act. SEC. 52. PROOF To B E FURNISHED FOR E A C H KEGISTERED VEHICLE.—

No vehicle shall be or continue to be registered in the name of any person required to file proof of financial responsibility for the future unless such proof shall be furnished for such vehicle. SEC. 53. ALTERNATE METHODS or GIVING PROOF.—Proof of

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responsibility when required under this Act, with respect to such a vehicle or with respect to a person who is not the owner of such a vehicle, may be given by filing— (1) a certificate of insurance as provided in section 54 or section 55; or (2) a bond as provided in section 60; or (3) a certificate of deposit of money or securities as provided in section 63; or (4) a certificate of self-insurance, as provided in section 79; supplemented by an agreement by the self-insurer that, with respect to accidents occurring while the certificate is in force, he will pay the same amounts that an insurer would have been obliged to pay under an owner's motor vehicle liability policy if it had issued such a policy to said self-insurer. SEC. 54. CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE AS PROOF.—Proof of

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responsibility for the future may be furnished by filing with the Commissioners the written certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do business in the District of Columbia certifying that there is in effect a motor-vehicle liability policy for the benefit of the person required to furnish proof of financial responsibility. Such certificate shall give the effective date of such motor-vehicle liability policy, which date shall be the same as the effective date of the certificate, and shall designate by explicit description or by appropriate reference all vehicles covered thereby unless the policy is issued to a person who is not the owner of a motor vehicle. SEC. 55. CERTIFICATE FURNISHED BY NONRESIDENT AS PROOF.—A nonresident may give proof of financial responsibility by filing with the Commissioners a written certificate or certificates of an insurance carrier authorized to transact business in the State in which the vehicle, or vehicles, owned by such nonresident is registered, or in the State in which such nonresident resides, if he does not own a vehicle, provided such certificate otherwise conforms with the provisions of this Act, and the Commissioners shall accept the same upon condition that said insurance carrier complies with the following provisions with respect to the policies so certified: (1) Said insurance carrier shall execute a power of attorney authorizing the Commissioners to accept service on its behalf of notice or process in any action arising out of a motor-vehicle accident in the District of Columbia;

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