hour before sunrise every motor bicycle or motor vehicle which is standing on any road, highway or street shall display a light on the front and at the rear of the same.

§ 7. Immediately upon the sale and delivery of any motor vehicle or motor bicycle which has been registered as herein provided prior to the date of such sale by any person other than a manufacturer or dealer, the vendor shall remove the number plate or plates from the motor vehicle or motor bicycle so sold, and within ten days after the date of such sale the vendor shall send a statement of such sale, showing the date thereof, the registration number of the motor vehicle or motor bicycle so sold, and the name of the purchaser to the Secretary of State; and thereupon such number plate or plates shall cease to apply to the motor vehicle or motor bicycle so sold, and the purchaser shall register the same as in the case of an original registration. Upon the payment to the Secretary of State of a fee of one dollar any other motor vehicle of like horse-power or capacity or less, or any motor bicycle owned by such vendor may be registered by such vendor, and the number plate or plates so removed from the motor vehicle or motor bicycle so sold shall be assigned by the Secretary of State and shall apply to and be used upon such other motor vehicle or motor bicycle until the thirtyfirst day of December then next ensuing: Provided, however, that in case the horse-power or capacity of any motor vehicle to which the unexpired term of the registration of the vehicle sold is sought to be applied would have required the payment of a larger registration fee than was paid upon the registration of the motor vehicle so sold, the vendor thereof shall, before the number plates may be applied to or used upon such motor vehicle of greater horse-power, or capacity, pay to the Secretary of State such a sum as added to the amount of the original registration fee paid for the year in which such motor vehicle is sold, equals the amount of the registration fee provided by this Act to be paid upon the registration of a motor vehicle of such greater horse-power or capacity.

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§ 8. The provisions of sections two (2), three (3), five (5), (6) and seven (7) of this Act shall not apply to any motor vehicle or motor bicycle owned by non-residents of this State (foreign corporations excepted): Provided, the owner thereof has complied with any law requiring the registration of motor vehicles or motor bicycles or the names of the owners thereof in force in the city, state, foreign country or province, territory or federal district of his residence: Provided, that the registration number showing the initial or abbreviation of the name of such city, state, foreign country or province, territory or federal district, shall be displayed on such vehicle substantially as is provided in section three (3) of this Act: Provided, further, that a non-resident within the meaning of this Act shall be held and defined to mean a person temporarily sojourning within this State for a period of sixty days or less in any one year.

§ 12. No owner of a motor vehicle or motor bicycle who shall have obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State and paid the registration fee as herein before provided, shall be required by any city, village,

town or other municipal corporation within the State other than that within which said owner resides to pay any tax or license fee for the use of such motor vehicle or motor bicycle; and no owner of a motor vehicle except motor trucks and motor driven commercial vehicles and motor vehicles which are used for public hire, or motor bicycle, who shall have obtained such certificate and paid such fee shall be required by the city, village or town within which he resides (if he resides within a city, village or town), to pay a tax or license fee for the use of such motor vehicle or motor bicycle in excess of the sum of ten dollars per annum for motor vehicles or motor bicycles of thirty-five horse-power or less or in excess of the sum of twenty dollars per annum for motor vehicles or motor bicycles of more than thirty-five horse-power in case such city, village or town within which he resides shall have a population of 150,000 or over, or in excess of the sum of five dollars per annum for motor vehicles or motor bicycles of thirty-five horse-power or less or in excess of the sum of ten dollars per annum for motor vehicles or motor bicycles of more than thirty-five horse power in case such city, village or town within which he resides shall have a population of less than 150,000.

Nor shall such owner be required to display upon his motor vehicle or motor bicycle any other number than the number issued by the Secretary of State, nor be limited as to speed upon any public street, avenue, road, turnpike, driveway, parkway, or any other public place, at any time when the same is or may hereafter be opened to the use of persons having or using other vehicles, nor be required to comply with other provisions or conditions as to the use of said motor vehicles or motor bicycles except as in this Act provided: Provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to apply to, or include, any speedway created, provided for, or maintained by the local authorities of any city, village, town or other municipal corporation within the State: And, provided, further, that the local authorities having jurisdiction over the public parks shall not by the terms of this Act be prohibited from adopting and enforcing such reasonable ordinances, rules or regulations concerning the speed at which motor vehicles or motor bicycles may be operated within any such parks, provided the rate of speed of motor vehicles or motor bicycles fixed by such ordinances, rules or regulations shall not be lower than the rate fixed for other vehicles, and provided such authority shall, by signs conspicuously placed, indicate the rate of speed permitted by such ordinances, rules or regulations: And, provided, further, that motor vehicles or motor bicycles may be excluded from any cemetery or grounds used for the burial of the dead, by the authorities having jurisdiction over the same. Except as in this section provided, no city, town or village or other municipality shall have power to make any ordinance, by-laws or resolutions limiting or restricting the speed. of motor vehicles or motor bicycles, and no ordinance, by-law or resolution heretofore or hereafter made by any city, village or town or other municipal corporation within this State, by whatever name known or designated, in respect to or limiting the speed of motor vehicles or

motor bicycles shall have any force, effect or validity, and they are hereby declared to be of no validity or effect: Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as affecting the power of municipal corporations to make and enforce ordinances, rules and regulations affecting motor trucks and motor driven commercial vehicles and motor vehicles which are used within their limits for public hire, or from making and enforcing reasonable traffic and other regulations except as to rates of speed not inconsistent with the provisions hereof.

§ 13. An application for a license to operate motor vehicles as a chauffeur, who is hereby defined to mean any person operating a motor vehicle as a mechanic or employee, and any person operating a motor vehicle for hire or for pecuniary profit, shall be made by mail or otherwise to the Secretary of State, or his duly authorized agent, upon blanks prepared under his authority. The Secretary of State shall appoint examiners and cause examinations to be held at convenient points throughout the State as often as may be necessary. Such applications shall be accompanied by the fee provided herein and by a photograph of the applicant in such numbers and forms as the Secretary of State shall prescribe, and such photographs shall have been taken within thirty days prior to the filing of such application. Such applications shall also be accompanied by a written statement signed by at least two reputable citizens that the applicant is a fit and proper person, competent to operate a motor vehicle.

Before such a license is granted the applicant shall pass such an examination as to his qualifications as the Secretary of State shall require and no license shall be issued until the Secretary of State, or his authorized agent is satisfied that the applicant is a proper person to receive it, and no chauffeur's license shall be issued to any person under eighteen years of age. A distinguishing number or mark shall be assigned to each chauffeur to whom a license shall be issued and the license shall be in such form as the Secretary of State may determine; it may contain special restrictions and limitations concerning the type of motor car, horse-power, design and other features of the motor vehicle which. the licensee may operate. It shall contain the distinguishing number or mark assigned to the licensee, his name, place of residence and address, a brief description of the licensee for the purpose of identification and a photograph of the licensee. The holder of every such license shall endorse his usual signature on the margin of the license in a space to be provided for that purpose, immediately upon receipt of said license, which shall not be valid until so endorsed. Every application for a license filed under the provisions of this section shall be sworn to and shall be accompanied by a fee of $5.00.

Upon receipt of such an application, the Secretary of State shall record the same in his office in the manner designated for recording the owners of motor vehicles, and when the applicant shall have passed the examination herein provided for, the number or mark assigned to such applicant, together with the fact that such applicant has passed such examinations, shall be noted in said record, and the names of the licensed

chauffeurs shall be furnished the county clerks, sheriffs and the chiefs of police in the same manner as provided for in section 2 in respect to

owners.

No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle as a chauffeur upon a public highway of this State, unless such person shall have complied in all respects with the requirements of this section: Provided, however, that a non-resident chauffeur who has registered under the provisions of the law in force in the city, State, foreign country or province, territory or Federal district, of his residence, substantially equivalent to the provisions of this section shall be exempt from license hereunder, while temporarily sojourning within this State for a period of sixty days, or less, in any one year. Licenses may be renewed annually upon the filing of application accompanied by a fee of $3.00: Provided, that if it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that any chauffeur shall have driven or operated a motor vehicle within this State while under the influence of intoxicating liquor the Secretary of State shall thereupon immediately cancel the license of said chauffeur and shall not renew the same until after the expiration of the period of one year from and after the date of such cancellation.

§ 15b. Any person having in his or her possession any motor bicycle or motor vehicle from which the manufacturer's serial number, or any other manufacturers' trade or distinguishing number or identification mark, has been removed, defaced, covered or destroyed for the purpose of concealing or destroying the identity of such motor bicycle or motor vehicle shall be liable to a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six (6) months, or both.

§ 2. These amendments shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1918.

APPROVED June 26, 1917.

AN ACT to amend sections 2, 5 and 19 of an Act entitled, “An Act defining motor vehicles and providing for the registration of the same and of motor bicycles and uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof; prohibiting the use of motor vehicles without the consent of the owner and the offer or acceptance of any bonus or discount or other consideration for the purchase of supplies or parts for any such motor vehicle or for work or repairs done thereon by others, and defining chauffeurs and providing for the examination and licensing thereof, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved June 10, 1911; in force July 1, 1911, and all amendments thereto in force January 1, 1916.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 2, 5 and 19 of an Act entitled, "An Act defining motor vehicles and providing for the registration of the same and of motor bicycles, and uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof [;] prohibiting the use of motor vehicles without the consent of the owner and the offer or acceptance of any bonus or discount or other consideration for the purchase of supplies or parts for any such motor vehicles or for work or repairs done thereon by others, and defining chauffeurs and providing for the examination and licensing thereof, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, and all amendments thereto in force January 1, 1916, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 2. Every owner of a motor vehicle or motor bicycle which shall be driven in this State, shall, except as otherwise provided in this Act, within ten days after he becomes the owner of such motor vehicle or motor bicycle, file in the office of the Secretary of State an application for a certificate of registration properly sworn to, setting forth his name and address, with a brief description of the vehicle, or bicycle, to be registered, including the name of the maker, factory and engine numbers, style of vehicle or bicycle and the motor power and (except in the case of electrically propelled vehicles) the amount of such motor power stated in figures of horse power, in accordance with such standard rating as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State, on a blank to be prepared and furnished by such Secretary of State for that purpose and shall pay to said Secretary of State for each of the calendar years 1918 and 1919, a registration fee for motor bicycles and motor vehicles, so registered, at the following rates: For the calendar years beginning