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- THE STRATFORD MIRROR ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYs - MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH -- OTICE TO OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF MOTOR VEHICLES FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW A N ew Measure for Safety on the Highways in effect SEPTEMBER Ist, 1930 "Tir amendment to The Highway Traffic Act, known as the 'Financial Responsibility Law," will come into effect on September 1. PURPOSE of the LAW The purpose of the Financial Responsibility Law is to further encourage safe driving of motor vehicles, in the interest of the public as well as of owners and drivers. WHAT the LAW will ACCOMPLISH No motorist is affected by this Law until he brings himself within its provisions. It will not impose any obligation upon those who drive safely and obey The Highway Traffic Act, and who, in case of accident, pay judgments rendered against them for injury done to persons Or property. HOW the LAW will OPERATE Upon conviction of an operator of a motor vehicle for any one of the offences named below, his driver's license and all motor vehicle permits issued to him will be suspended until such operator or owner gives proof of his ability to compensate financially those whom he may endanger in the future. The OFFENCES Following are the offences named: (a) reckless driving, if any injury to person or property occurs in connection therewith. ee (b) racing on the highways, which is prohibited b > Hi Traffic Act. Prohibited by The Highway (c) exceeding the speed limit, if any injury to any person or property occurs in connection therewith. «(d) failing to remain at or return to the scene of an accident and to furnish the names and addresses of driver and owner of vehicle and failing to render all possible assistance, if directly or indirectly a party to the accident, (e) pn, a motor vehicle on a highway without holding a driver's icense. (f) : any criminal offence involving the use of a motor vehicle, including driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. (g) any offence against public safety on highways as may be desig- 2 nated by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. NON-PAYMENT of JUDGMENTS If the holder of a driver's license or owner's permit fails to satisfy a judgment rendered against him for damages on account of injury to, or death of, any person, or on account of damage to property in excess of $100, occasioned by a motor vehicle, within 15 days from date of judgment, such license or permit shall be suspended until such judgment is satisfied to the extent of at least $5,000 for injury to, or death of, any one person and, subject to that limit, for each person so injured or killed to the extent of at least $10,000 for mjury to, or death of, two or more persons in any one accident, and to the extent of at least $1,000 for damage to property of others resulting from any one accident, and until such person gives proof of his financial responsibility in case of future accident. OFFENCES OUTSIDE ONTARIO By Drivers Licensed in this Province - For similar offences committed in other Provinces or States of the United States and reported to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles of Ontario under reciprocal arrangements, the Minister of Highways shall suspend the driver's license and owner's permit until that driver or owner has given proof of financial responsibility in the same manner as if the offence had been committed in Ontario. PROOF of FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Amounts and How to Give Proof of financial responsibility shall be given in the following amounts by every driver and in the case of an owner in the same amounts for each motor vehicle registered in his name:-- (a) at least $5,000 for injury to, or death of, any one person and, subject to that limit for each person so injured or killed, at least $10,000 for injury or death of two or more persons in any one accident. (b) At least $1,000 for damage to property of others resulting from any one accident. Proof of financial responsibility may be given in any one of the following forms: (a) The written certificate filed with the Registrar of Motor Vehicles _ of any authorized insurer that it has issued to the person named a motor vehicle liability policy or policies which at the date of the certificate is in full force and effect. (b) The bond of a guarantee insurance or surety company licensed in Ontario, or a bond with personal sureties approved as adequate, (c) The certificate of the Treasurer of the Province that the person hamed has deposited with him a sum of money or securities for money approved by him to the amount or value of $11,000 for each motor vehicle registered in the name of such person. PUBLIC NOW PROTECTED by INCONTESTABLE INSURANCE In the event of damage being done by the owner or driver of a motor vehicle to another person or to property of another person, and such owner or driver holds an insurance policy to pay the. legal liability of the insured for such damage, and if through misrepresentation upon the application for such policy or in the event of a breach by the insured of any term, provision or condition of the policy which would relieve the insurer from liability, the insurance company must nevertheless under the Safety Responsibility Law, pay the damage to the person injured up to the limits named above, but in such case the insurance company by a provision in their policy may have the right to recover from the person insured the amount or amounts so paid in liquidation of the damages for the injury he has done to the persons or property of others, including interest and costs. - REPORTING of ACCIDENTS ~ Every person in charge of a motor vehicle who is directly or indirectly involved in an accident, if the accident results in personal injuries or in damage to property apparently exceeding $50, shall report such accident forthwith to the nearest provincial or municipal police officer and shall furnish such information or written statement con- cerning the accident as may be required by the officer or by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. : ? EPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS The HON. GEO. S. HENRY, Minister Keep Your Hands Clean With IT'S - OFF HAND CLEANER Can be used with cold water. Sold at Pounder Bros., Wolfe's Gro- cery and Caraher's Grocery. Manufactured by DRAKE COMPANY : Stratford, Ont. 72 Cambria St. Phone 1937F GOOD COFFEE at the price you want to 3 pay Three Quality Blends at 45c, 59c, 65¢ ID. oe +]. L. BRADSHAW CHINA HALL "Doc's Corner' A real estate dealer usually gives you a lot for your money. zs: * * Character depends on thinking for yourself, but not of yourself. * * * An interurban bus was recently struck by lightning. The lightning, we presume, was then hauled away for repairs. ", P * * * We need just one more law in this country and that is to prohibit people from calling over the phone and say- ing: "Guess who this is." * * Eg "Many men have open minds but nothing seems to have taken advant- age of the opening. * * * We fought the war for dear life and by heck we've got it! % * Eo A seaside visitor complains of the scanty costumes worn by girl bathers. It seems to be a lot of fuss about very little. eee We have just figured out that a boy can sample all the chocolate bars on the market by the time he is forty- five. * * % When a chair becomes old and worn out it is an antique and brings a good price. But it's different with an auto- mobile. * % * b The good old days, says one editor, were those when meals were opened with blessings instead of can openers. DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE TAXI | PHONE GG PHONE | ROY HUEHNERGARD Rubber Heels fort from Hive- ly, @epringy rubber heels. Ve, Superior Sho 119 Ontario § RR WOM ¥ ge ) Phone 94 * * * The question is not so much whe- ther man descended from the monkey, but when is he going to quit descend-' ing. : * * ok At fifty miles drove Ollie Skidder. He hit 'a train--please help his widder. bd * * The more we fish the more we are , convinced that the best Catches are made in the winter time around some well heated office. % * * It is pointed out that aviation has made the world smalier. This is true, but still you can't fall and miss it. | * * * After theatres are equipped with devices to enable the deaf to hear the talkies, may we look for aparatus to control the audience as to muffle the talkative? : Ra, eae The ultimate in abbreviation is a young man wearing shorts driving up to a Tom Thumb golf course in a bantam car. * * * _ A financier says the future is bright for those who work hard while we say few would consider that a bright fu- ture. ; : Ed * * % What has become of the dear old- fashioned girl who wouldn't think of going down town until she had the house and younger brothers all "tid- ied up?" ? * * * The season for berry-picking is now over but the season of pocket-picking still goes on. * * * ys "Tis now the festive fisherman Upon the brooklet lies: He's sure to bring a big string home If not of fish--of lies. A girl victim of lost memory in Chi- cago recovered after she saw the like a woman, never to forget a bon- net belonging to another woman. * * * Kathleen Norris says a marriage school might produce good results. As a matter of fact, every marriage is a school, and some of the students have flunked the course six or seven times. * of * her husband feel cheap by cutting the grass with a lawn mower while he sat on the verandah and read the papers. Did he feel cheap? He did not. All he said was: "You should get the clippers and trim around the edges." * * * The women are swimming the Chan- nel; *: The women are hopping the sea; The women are hopeless to handle; O bring back my women to me! x * Two Irishmen were watching the Shriners parade, and one asked: "Who are those fellows, Mike?' "They're Shriners." "And what are Shriners?" "Why, they're Masons." "Sure and what are 'they paradin' for now? They're gettin' $18. a day." 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