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32 SENATE JOURNAL.
Sec. 2. That Section 4, Chapter
88, General Laws of Second Called
Session, Forty-first Legislature, be
amended so as to hereafter read:
"Each application filed hereunder
for registration or for chauffeur's li-
cense during April shall be accom-
panied by the annual fee; each appli-
cation filed after April shall be ac-
companied by the full amount of the
annual fee if the vehicle was oper-
ated on the public highways or
streets during any part of April of
that year, each application for re-
registration filed during May or any
subsequent month of that motor ve-
hicle registration year, shall be ac-
companied by affidavit that such ve-
hicle has not been previously oper-
ated upon the highways of this State
during any portion of the current
year and shall be accompanied by
eleven-twelfths, ten-twelfths, nine-
twelfths, eight-twelfths, seven-
twelfths, six-twelfths, five-twelfths,
four-twelfths, three-twelfths, two-
twelfths, or one-twelfth respectively
of the annual fee."
Sec. 3. Every motor vehicle reg-
istration or license fee paid and
chauffeur's license fee paid on or be-
fore January 31, 1934, for the calen-
dar year, shall be good and valid
until and including March 31, 1935,
as if originally issued for such term,
and all 1934 license plates may law-
fully be used for such term.
Every registration fee or license
fee paid after January 31, 1934, and
on or before April 1, 1934, shall be
the full fee for a year as provided
by statute, but without penalty; and
the license issued upon such pay-
ment shall relate back to January 1,
1934, and be good to and including
March 31, 1935.
All tax collectors and other offi-
cials who may have collected or may
hold penalties on registration or li-
cense fees paid after January 31,
1934, are hereby authorized and in-
structed to refund to the person pay-
ing said penalty the amount of said
penalty, providing that application
must be made for and said refund
made by March 15, 1934. Each col-
lector or other official making such
refund shall make with his reports
now required by law on the collec-
tion of registration and license fees
a detailed statement to become part
of such report, showing the follow-
ing: name of person paying penalty,
date of payment, amount of pay-
ment; name of person to whom re-fund was made, date of refund,
amount of refund.
The compliance by any person en-
titled to the benefits of this act with
the terms hereof when pleaded and
proved to the satisfaction of the
court or jury trying the case, shall
be a defense to any criminal prose-
cution for any act committed on or
before April 1, 1934, which other-
wise would be unlawful under Sec-
tion 14-b, Section 14-d, or Section
14-e, of Chapter 88 of the General
Laws of the Second Called Session,
Forty-first Legislature.
Sec. 4. From and after April 1,
1934, Section 14-a, Section 14-b,
Section 14-c, Section 14-d and Sec-
tion 14-e of Chapter 88 of the Gen-
eral Laws of the Second Called Ses-
sion, Forty-first Legislature, sha4l
be and are hereby repealed; pro-
vided that all convictions and prose-
cutions for violations of said sections
committed before April 1, 1934, are
hereby saved in full force and effect
as if this section were not enacted
into law.
Sec. 5. Any person who operates
a passenger car or a commercial
motor vehicle or truck-tractor upon
the public highways of this State
any time during any month of a mo-
tor vehicle registration year without
having displayed thereon and at-
tached thereto two license number
plates, one plate at the front and one
at the rear, which have been duly
and lawfully assigned for said ve-
hicle for the current year, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 6. Any person who operates
a road-tractor, motorcycle, trailer
or semi-trailer upon the public high-
ways of this State any time during
any month of a motor vehicle regis-
tration year without having attached
thereto and displayed on the rear
thereof, a license number plate duly
and lawfully assigned therefor for
the current year shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor.
Sec. 7. Any person operating any
motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer
upon the highways of this State on
and after April 1 of any motor ve-
hicle registration year with license
plate or plates for any preceding
year attached or displayed, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 8. Any person convicted of
a misdemeanor for a violation of
Section 5, Section 6 or Section 7 of
this Act shall be fined in any sum32
SENATE JOURNAL.
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