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PUBLIC LAW 365-MAY 25, 1954

[68 STAT-

his liability, or has been finally adjudicated not to be liable, for such injury or damage, shall be sufficient evidence thereof in the absence of evidence to the contrary in the records of the Commissioners. (c) Whenever any person whose proof has been canceled or returned under subsection (a)(3) of this section applies for a license or re^stration within a period of thre« years from the date proof was originally required, any such application shall be refused unless the applicant shall reestablish such proof for the remainder of such threeyear period. ARTICLE ''

VI

VIOLATION OF PROVISIONS OF ACT, PENALTIES

SEC.

69. TRANSFER OF REGISTRATION To DEFEAT PURPOSE OF ACT

PROHIBITED,— (a) If an owner's registration has been suspended hereunder, such registration shall not be transferred nor the vehicle in respect to which such registration was issued registered in any other name until the Commissioners are satisfied that such transfer of registration is proposed in good faith and not for the purpose or with the effect of defeating the purposes of this Act. (b) Nothing in this section shall in anywise affect the rights of any conditional vendor, chattel, mortgagee or lessor of such a vehicle registered in the name of another as owner who becomes subject to the provisions of this Act. (c) The Commissioners shall suspend the registration of any vehicle transferred in violation of the provisions of this section. SEC. YO. SURRENDER or LICENSE AND REGISTRATION.—Any person whose license or registration shall have been suspended under any provision of this Act, or whose policy of insurance or bond, when required under this Act, shall have been canceled or terminated, shall immediately return his license and registration to the Commissioners. If any person shall fail to return to the Commissioners the license or registration as provided herein, the Commissioners shall forthwith direct any police officer to secure possession thereof and to return the same to the Commissioners. SEC. 71. FAILURE To REPORT ACCIDENT.—Failure to report a motorvehicle accident or to furnish additional information as required under section 10, 12, or 13 shall be punished by a fine not in excess of $100. SEC. 72. ERRONEOUS REPORT AND OTHER OFFENSES.—Any person who gives information required in such report or otherwise required for such purpose knowing or having reason to believe that such information is false, or who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility for the future, or who files or offers for filing any such evidence or proof knowing or having reason to believe that it is forged or signed without authority, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year or both. SEC. 73. OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE W H E N LICENSE OR REGISTRATION SUSPENDED OR RE^'0KED.—Any person whose license or registra-

tion has been suspended or revoked under this Act and who, during such suspension or revocation, drives any motor vehicle upon any highway or knowingly permits any vehicle of a type subject to registration under the law of the District of Columbia owned by such person to be operated by another upon any highway, except as permitted under this Act, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both.

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