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of such registration fees: Provided , further , That in the

event motor vehicles exempted under this section shall

be found operated on any public highways, the regular

registration fees and surcharges shall be collected in

addition to whatever penalties may be imposed for

violation

of

this

Act.

The

Commissioner

of

Land

Transportation shall provide distinctive number plates for

vehicles exempted from payment of regular registration

fees, and the owner of the vehicles concerned shall pay

four pesos for each set of such number plates.

(j)The maximum allowable gross weight of a motor truck,

passenger bus, or trailer, upon which to compute the

registration fee thereof, shall be determined by the

Commissioner of Land Transportation. He shall, from time

to time as the need of the service may require, prepare,

subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works

and

Communications,

suitable

tables

of

maximum

allowable loads per wheel for different sizes and kinds of

tires.

(k)The registration fees provided in this Act for trucks may

be payable in two equal installment, the first to be paid

on or before the last working day of February if for hire,

and in March if private; and the second to be paid on or

before the last working day of August: Provided , That the

fifty per cent penalty shall apply only to the unpaid

balance of the remaining period of delinquency.

SECTION

9. Permissible Weights and Dimensions of

Vehicles in Highways Traffic . — (a) The maximum gross

weight and measurement of motor vehicles, unladen or

with load, permissible on public highways shall be as

specified hereunder, subject to such regulations as the

Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of

Public Works and Communications, may promulgate,

from time to time, as the conditions of the public

highways may warrant and the needs of the service may

require.

Permissible maximum weights:

1.

Per most heavily loaded

wheel

three thousand six

hundred

kilograms;

2.

Per most heavily loaded

axle

eight thousand

kilograms;

3.

Per most heavily loaded

axle group (the two axles of

the group being at least

one meter and less than

two meters apart)

fourteen thousand

five hundred

kilograms.

hundred kilograms.

An axle weight shall be the total weight transmitted to

the road by all the wheels the centers of which can be

included between the parallel transverse vertical planes

one meter apart extending across the full width of the

vehicles.

No provincial, city or municipal authority shall enact or

enforce

any

ordinance

or

resolution

regulating

or

prescribing the maximum gross weight of any motor

vehicle.

(b)No motor vehicle operating as a single unit shall

exceed the following dimensions:

Overall width

two and

five-tenths meters

Overall height

four meters

Overall length:

Freight vehicles with two axles

ten meters

Passenger vehicles with two

axles

eleven meters

Vehicles with three or more

axles

fourteen meters

(c)No

motor

vehicle

and/or trailer combination shall

exceed

eighteen

meters

in overall projected length,

including any load carried on such vehicle and trailer.

(d)No articulated vehicles shall be allowed to draw or pull

a trailer and no vehicle already drawing a trailer shall

draw another.

SECTION

10. Special

Permits ,

Fees

For .

—

The

Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of

Public

Works

and

Communications,

shall

issue

regulations and schedules of additional fees under which

special permits may be issued in the discretion of the

Commissioner or his deputies for each of the following

special cases, without which special permit no vehicles

shall be operated on the public highways:

(a)To operate a motor vehicle or trailer outfit with wheel,

axle, or axle group loads in excess of the limits fixed in

subsection (a) of Section nine hereof or in any regulation

issued by the Commissioner.

(b)To operate a motor vehicle the size of which exceeds

the

limit

of

permissible

dimensions

specified

in

paragraph (b) of Section nine hereof.

(c)To operate a motor vehicle with any part of the load

extending beyond the projected width of the vehicle.

(d)To pull two trailers behind a motor vehicle.

(e)For any other special authority relating to the use of

vehicles, not otherwise specifically provided herein.

SECTION 11. Additional Fees . — In addition to the fees

elsewhere

provided in this Act, for each change of

registration, from private to for hire or vice-versa; revision

of gross weight rating, change of tire size; transfer of

ownership; replacement of a lost registration certificate,

number

plate,

driver's

license

or

permit;

badge;

preparation of affidavit or certified copy of records, or for

any similar circumstances requiring the issue, revision, or

reissue of a certificate of registration, driver's license,

badge, permit, or other document, a fee of two pesos

shall be collected.

The replacement of a lost or utterly spoiled certificate,

number plate, license, badge or permit shall render the

original invalid.

In case of request in writing for certification of data or

facts involving two or more vehicles, a fee of five pesos a

page

or

part

thereof

shall

be

collected

for

each

certification.

SECTION 12. Fee for Original Registration for Part of

Year . — If any application for the original registration is

made during the first quarter of a calendar year, the total

annual fee for the year shall be paid, if made during the

second quarter, three-fourths of the annual fee for that

year shall be paid, if made during the third quarter, one

half of the annual fee shall be paid, and if made during

the fourth quarter, one-fourth of the annual fee shall be

paid.

Nothing in this section shall be construed as allowing

quarterly renewals of registrations in order to avoid

payment of fees in advance for the entire year.

SECTION 13. Payment of Taxes Upon Registration . — No

original registration of motor vehicles subject to payment

of

taxes,

customs

duties

or other charges shall be

accepted unless proof of payment of the taxes due

thereon has been presented to the Commission.

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