permit. (2) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Motor Driver's Vehicles, at his discretion, to issue to any person over seventeen years of age a written permit, under the hand and seal of said commissioner, allowing the said person, for the purpose of fitting himself to become a motor vehicle driver, or a motor cycle operator, to operate a motor vehicle or motor cycle for a specified period of not more than three weeks, while in the company and under the supervision of a licensed motor vehicle driver; and such a permit, under the hand and seal of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, shall be sufficient license for the said person to operate a motor vehicle or motor cycle in the State during the period specified, while in the company of and under the control of a licensed motor vehicle driver of this State; and Proviso. provided, further, that the said person, as well as such licensed motor vehicle driver, shall be held accountable for all violations of this act committed by the said person while in the presence of such licensed motor vehicle driver. No such written permit shall be issued Fee for unless the person applying therefor shall pay the sum of fifty cents to any agent of the Motor Vehicle Department, such sum to be turned over by the said agent to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, and by him remitted with the other funds collected in his department to the State Treasurer, in accordance with the provisions of this act; and no examination for a driver's license shall be given unless the applicant therefor has first secured a learner's permit. permit. and carried. (3) Each license to drive an automobile shall have License signed endorsed thereon in the proper handwriting of the said licensee, the name of said licensee. And the said license must be in the possession of the driver or operator at all times when the said driver or operator is in charge of a motor vehicle or motor cycle on the highways of this State. And said licensee when thereupon Showing requested by any motor vehicle inspector, police officer or magistrate, while in the performance of the duties of his office under this act, shall exhibit said license. to said officer, and write his name in the presence of said officer, to the end that he may thereby determine the identity of said licensee. license. Operation of motor vehicles by nonresidents. 90 days' privilege. Proviso. (4) Any motor vehicle or motor cycle belonging to any person who is a nonresident of this State, and who has registered such motor vehicle or motor cycle in and has complied with all the laws of the State, Territory, Federal District of the United States, or of any Province of the Dominion of Canada, in which he resides, with respect to the registration of motor vehicles and the display of registration numbers, and who shall conspicuously display such registration number as required thereby, may be driven in this State, if said motor vehicle or motor cycle be a passenger vehicle, during a period of not to exceed ninety days in each calendar year, or if such motor vehicle be a commercial motor vehicle, it may be driven in this State during a period of not to exceed fifteen days in each calendar year, or on two or more occasions not exceeding in the aggregate the period allowed such motor vehicle in any such year, without complying with, or being subject to the provisions of this act as the same applies to the registration of motor vehicles and licensing of the operators thereof; provided, that each day or part of a day during which any such motor vehicle is within this State shall be considered as one of the days by this section allowed; and provided, further, that the provisions of this section shall be operative as to any such motor vehicle by nonresidents of this State only to the extent that under the laws of the State, Territory. Federal District or Province of his residence, substantially similar exemptions and privileges are granted to motor vehicles and motor cycles duly registered under the laws of this State; and provided, further, that the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall have power to suspend, for cause, the touring privileges in this act allowed in so far as it may apply to any licensed motor vehicle licensed by any State, Federal District, Territory or of the Province of the Dominion of Canada to which such privilege is granted under the provisions Suspension of of this act. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in suspending such privilege, shall give seven days' notice of such action, citing in such notice the number of the motor vehicle or motor cycle in reference to which such privilege is suspended, and shall forward such Proviso. Proviso. privilege. notice to the department which issued the license against which such privilege is suspended. The Commissioner Penalty for of Motor Vehicles, when suspending such privilege shall violation. give public notice of the same, and cause all police departments or other police authorities to be notified of such action. If such motor vehicle against which such privilege has been suspended shall be driven thereafter in the State of New Jersey, during the period in which its license is in force, the driver and owner thereof shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars. (5) The touring privilege as hereinbefore provided Touring is also extended to the chauffeurs or drivers of all privilege. nonresident motor vehicles operating in this State under such touring privilege, provided that the said chauffeur or driver has complied with the law of his resident State with respect to the licensing of drivers or chauffeurs. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 12, 1928. CHAPTER 26. An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act concerning motor vehicles bailed, rented or leased, without a driver, to be operated by the bailee or lessee, his agent or servant, for purposes other than the transportation of passengers for hire, and their operation upon public highways,' approved March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven." BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. An act to repeal an act entitled "An act to ammend Act repealed an act entitled 'An act concerning motor vehicles bailed, rented or leased, without a driver, to be operated by the bailee or lessee, his agent or servant, for purposes other than the transportation of passengers for hire, 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Obtaining motor vehicle misdemeanor. CHAPTER 27. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes" (Revision of 1898), approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Any person, firm, corporation, association, or any fraudulently a officer, director or employee thereof, who or which shall, with intent to defraud the owner of any motor vehicle, or any person in lawful possession thereof, obtain possession of such motor vehicle by agreeing to pay a rental for the use thereof based in whole or in part upon the distance such motor vehicle shall travel shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The refusal to pay the rental for such motor vehicle or absconding without paying such rental shall be prima facie evidence of the intent to defraud. Not paying rental fraud. Damaging registering instruments a misdemeanor. 2. Any person, firm, corporation, association, or any officer, director or employee thereof, who or which shall, with intent to defraud the owner of any motor vehicle, or any person in lawful possession thereof, after obtaining possession of such motor vehicle by agreeing to pay a rental for the use thereof based in whole or in part upon the distance such motor vehicle shall travel, remove or damage any mileage registering instrument connected to such motor vehicle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The removal or damage of any such mileage registering instrument shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 12, 1928. CHAPTER 28. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act concerning motor vehicles bailed, rented or leased, without a driver, to be. operated by the bailee or lessee, his agent or servant, for purposes other than the transportation of passengers for hire, and their operation upon public highways,' approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six," which amendment was approved March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: amended 1. Section two of the act of which this act is amend- Section 2 atory be and the same is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: (2) 2A. Every person, firm, association or corporation owning and engaged in the business of renting or leasing motor vehicles, without a driver, to be operated by the lessee or bailee, his agent or servant, for purposes other than the transportation of passengers for hire, shall file with the clerk of the municipality in which the owner resides or has his place of business for the motor vehicle or vehicles intended to be so rented or leased, a policy or policies intended to be so rented or leased a policy or policies of insurance of a company duly licensed to transact business under the insurance laws of the State of New Jersey, insuring such motor vehicle owner against loss from the liability imposed Liability in surance policy filed with clerk. municipal |