residents of this state, provided the owners thereof have complied with any law requiring the registration of owners of motor vehicles in force in the state, territory or federal district of their residence, and the registration number showing the initials of such states, territory or federal district shall be displayed on such vehicle substantially as in this section. provided. 98 O. L. 322.

(4379-22) Sec. 11. [Speed permitted.] No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or the safety of any property; or in any event on any public highway where the territory contiguous thereto is closely built up, at a greater rate than one mile in six minutes, or elsewhere in a city or village at a greater rate than one mile in four minutes, or elsewhere outside of a city or village at a greater rate than one mile in three minutes; subject, however, to the other provisions of this act. 98 O. L. 322.

(4379-23) Sec. 12. [Speed at crossing, etc.] Upon approaching a bridge, dam, sharp curve, or steep descent, and also in traversing such bridge, dam, curve or descent, a person operating a motor vehicle shall have it under control and operate it at a rate of speed not exceeding one mile in fifteen minutes and upon approaching a crossing of intersecting highways, at a speed not greater than is reasonable and proper having regard to the traffic then on such highway and the safety of the public. 98 O. L. 323.

(4379-24) Sec. 13. [Meeting horses, etc.] Upon approaching a person walking in the roadway of a public highway, or a horse or horses, or other draft animals, being ridden, led, or driven thereon, a person operating a motor vehicle shall give reasonable warning of its approach, and use every reasonable precaution to insure the safety of such person or animal, and, in the case of horses or other draft animals, to prevent frightening the same. 98 O. L. 323.

(4379-25) Sec. 14. [Stopping on signal.] A person operating a motor vehicle or motor cycle or motor bicycle shall, at request or on signal, by putting up the hand, from a person riding, leading or driving a restive horse or horses, or other draft animals, bring such motor vehicle, cycle or bicycle immediately to a stop, and, if traveling in the opposite direction, remain stationary so long as may be reasonable to allow such horse or animal to pass, and, if traveling in the same direction, use reasonable caution in thereafter passing such horse or animals; provided, that, in case such horse or animal appears badly frightened or the person operating such motor vehicle is requested so to do, such person shall cause the motor of such vehicle, cycle or bicycle to cease running so long as shall be reasonably necessary to prevent an accident and insure the safety of others. 98 O. L. 323.

(4379-26) Sec. 15. [Giving name and address.] In case of accident to a person or property on the public highway, due to the operation. thereon of a motor vehicle, the person operating such vehicle, shall stop. and, upon request of a person injured, or any person present, give such person his name and address, and, if not the owner, the name and address of such owner. 98 G. L. 323.

(4379-27) Sec. 16. [Speed tests and races.] [Speed tests and races.] Local authorities may, notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, set aside for at given time a specified public highway for speed tests or races, to be conducted under proper restrictions for the safety of the public. 98 O. L. 323.

(4379-28) Sec. 17. [Law of the road.] Whenever a person operating a motor vehicle shall meet on a public highway any other person riding or driving a horse or horses or other draft animals or any other vehicle, the person operating such motor vehicle shall reasonably turn the same to the right of the center of such highway, so as to pass without interference. Any such person so operating a motor vehicle shall, on overtaking such horse, draft animals or other vehicle pass on the left side thereof, and the rider or driver of such horse, draft animal or other vehicle shall, as soon as practicable, turn to the right so as to allow free passage on the left. Any such person so operating a motor vehicle shall at the intersection of public highways, keep to the right of the intersection of the center of such highways, when turning to the right and pass to the right of such intersection when turning to the left. Nothing in this section shall, however, be construed as limiting the meaning or effect of the provisions of section eleven of this act. 98 O. L. 323.

(4379-29) Sec. 18. [Brakes, lamps, horns, etc.] Every motor vehicle while in use on a public highway shall be provided with good and efficient brakes, and also with a suitable bell, horn or other signal and be so constructed as to exhibit, during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, two lamps showing white lights visible within a reasonable distance in the direction toward which such vehicle is proceeding, showing the registered number of the vehicle in separate Arabic numerals, not less than one inch in height and each stroke to be not less than one-quarter of an inch in width, and also a red light visible in the reverse direction. 98 O. L. 324.

(4379-30) Sec. 19. [Local ordinances prohibited.] Subject to the provisions of this act, local authorities shall have no power to pass, enforce or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation requiring of any owner or operator of a motor vehicle any license or permit to use the public highways, or excluding or prohibiting any motor vehicle whose owner has complied with section two of this act from the free use of such highways, except such driveway, speedway or road as has been or may be expressly set apart by law for the exclusive use of horses and light carriages, or except as herein provided, in any way affecting the registration or numbering or motor vehicles or prescribing a slower rate of speed than herein specified at which said vehicles may be operated. or the use of the public highways, contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act; and all such ordinances, rules or regulations now in force are hereby declared to be of no validity or effect; provided, how

ever.

[Exception] That the local authorities of cities and incorporated villages may limit, by ordinance, rule or regulation hereafter adopted the speed of motor vehicles on the public highways, on condition that such ordinance, rule or regulation shall also fix the same speed limitation for all other vehicles, such speed limitation may not be in any case less than

one mile in six minutes in incorporated villages, and on further condition that such city or village shall also have placed conspicuously on each named public highway where the city or village line crosses the same, and on every named highway where the rate of speed changes, signs of sufficient size to be easily readable by a person using the highway, bearing the words "Slow down to miles" (the rate being inserted) and also an arrow pointing in the direction where the speed is to be reduced. or changed, and also on further condition that such ordinance, rule or regulation shall fix the penalties for the violation thereof similar to and no greater than those fixed by such local authorities for violation of speed limitations by any other vehicles than motor vehicles, which penalties shall during the existence of the ordinance, rule or regulation supersede those specified in section twenty-seven of this act, and provided further, that nothing in this act contained shall be construed as limiting the powers of local authorities to make, enforce and maintain, further ordinances, rules. or regulations, affecting motor vehicles which are offered to the public for hire. 98 O. L. 324.

(4379-31) Sec. 20. [Parks, parkways and cemeteries.] Local authorities may, notwithstanding the provisions of this act, make, enforce and maintain such reasonable ordinances, rules or regulations concerning the speed at which motor vehicles may be operated in any parks or parkways within a city, but, in that event, must, by signs at each entrance of such park and along such parkway, conspicuously indicate the rate of speed permitted or required, and may exclude motor vehicles from any cemetery or grounds used for the burial of the dead. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-32) Sec. 21. [Act not to effect right to damages.] Nothing in this act shall be construed to curtail or abridge the right of any person to prosecute a civil action for damages by reason of injuries to person or property resulting from the negligent use of the highways by a motor vehicle or its owner or his employee or agent. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-33) Sec. 22. [Chauffeur's statement; fee.] Every person hereafter desiring to operate a motor vehicle as a chauffeur shall file in the office of secretary of state, on a blank to be supplied by such secretary, a statement which shall include his name and address and the trade name and motive power of the motor vehicle or vehicles he is able to operate; and shall pay a registration fee of two dollars. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-34) Sec. 23. [Chauffeur's registration.] The secretary of state shall thereupon file such statement in his office, register such chauffeur in a book or index to be kept for that purpose, and assign him a number. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-35) Sec. 24. [Chauffeur's badge.] The secretary of state shall forthwith upon such registration and without other fee issue and deliver to such chauffeur a badge of aluminum or other suitable metal which shall be oval in form and the greater diameter of which shall not be more than two inches, and such badge shall have stamped thereon the words "Registered chauffeur No. with the registration number inserted therein; which badge shall thereafter be worn by such chauffeur pinned upon his clothing in a conspicuous place at all times while he is operating a motor vehicle upon the public highways. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-36) Sec. 25. [Fictitious badge, etc.] No chauffeur, having registered as herein above provided, shall voluntarily permit any other person to wear his badge, nor shall any person while operating a motor vehicle wear any badge belonging to any other person, or a fictitious badge. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-37) Sec. 26. [Unregistered chauffeur cannot operate.] No person shall operate a motor vehicle as a chauffeur upon the public highways after June 1, 1906, unless such person shall have complied in all respects with the requirements of this section. 98 O. L. 325.

(4379-38) Sec. 27. [Penalties for violation of this act.] The violation of any of the provisions of section six or of section eight, or of section eleven, or of section twenty-two or of section 2a of this act, or of any ordinance, rule or regulation adopted by local authorities in pursuance of section twenty of this act, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense, and punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, for second offense, and punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars and imprisonment not exceeding thirty days for a third or subsequent offense. 98 O. L. 326.

(4379-39) Sec. 28. [Same.] The violation of any other provision of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for the first offense, and a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for a second offense, and a fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both, for a third or subsequent offense. 98 O. L. 326.

(4379-40) Sec. 29. [Release from custody, bail, etc.] In case the owner of a motor vehicle shall be taken into custody because of the violation of any provision of this act. he shall be forthwith, taken before. an accessible captain or sergeant or acting sergeant of police in any city or village, or any justice of the peace or magistrate, and be entitled to an immediate hearing; and if such hearing cannot then be had, be released from custody on giving such undertaking, as is required by law, to appear in answer for such violation, at such time and place as shall then be indicated secured by the deposit of a sum equal to the maximum fine for the offense with which he is charged, or in lieu thereof by leaving the motor vehicle, being operated by such person, with such officer; or, in case such officer is not accessible, be forthwith released from custody on giving his name and address to the officer making such arrest and depositing with such officer a sum equal to the maximum fine for the offense for which said arrest is made, or in lieu thereof, by leaving the motor vehicle, being operated by said person, with such officer, provided, that in such case the officer making such arrest shall give a receipt in writing for such sum or vehicle and notify such person to appear before the most accessible magistrate, naming him, on that or the following day, specifying the place and hour. 98 O. L. 326.

(4379-41) Sec. 30. [Disposition of fees collected.] The fees received under the provisions of this act shall be paid monthly by the secretary of state into the treasury of the state and placed to the credit of

the department of highways to be expended for the actual construction of improved roads according to the provisions of an act entitled “An act to establish a state highway department by the appointment of a state highway commissioner and assistants and defining the powers and duties of the office, and to provide for a system of state, county and township co-operation in the permanent improvement of public highways," passed April 18, 1904, O. L., Vol. 97, and such expenses as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the said. fund. 98 O. L. 326.

Sec. 4201. [What animals shall not run at large; penalties against owner.] The owner or keeper of a stallion, jack, bull, boar, or buck, shall not allow the same to go or be at large, out of his own inclosure, under penalty of ten dollars for the first offense, and of twentyfive dollars for each and every subsequent offense, to be recovered by civil action, in the name of the state of Ohio, before a justice of [the] peace of the township in which such owner or keeper, or either of them may reside; and such penalty shall be for the benefit of, and when collected paid into the common school fund of the township in which the suit is brought; but such suit shall be brought within sixty days after such animal is found to be at large.

Sec. 4202. [Certain animals not to run at large; penalty.] No person or corporation being the owner or having the charge of any horses mules, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, dogs or geese shall suffer the same to run at large in any public road or highway, or in any street, lane or alley, or upon any uninclosed land or cause such animals to be herded, kept or detained for the purpose of grazing the same on premises other than those owned or occupied by the owner or keeper of such animals, except as hereinafter provided; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay for every such violation, as penalty therefor, not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars; continued violation after notice, or prosecution, shall be held to be an additional offense for each and every day of such continuance.

Sec. 4203. [County commissioners may grant permission for animals to run at large; duties of road superintendents as to animals running at large.] General permission may be granted by the commissioners of any county for any animal named in the preceding section to run at large in their respective counties; in counties where there is no general permission, township trustees may grant special permits directed to individuals, and for particular animals described therein, revokable at the discretion of the township trustees upon three days' notice, in writing, to the owner of such animal; and such permission whether general or special shall terminate on the first Monday of March in each year; but no permit shall be granted for any swine to run at large; and in case any person shall permit any swine belonging to him, or being under his control, to run at large he shall thereby be deprived of the benefit of any permit issued to him, as to any domestic animals whatsoever, and also of the benefits of any general permit issued by the county commissioners, and be subject to all the fines and penalties hereinafter provided; and it is hereby made the duty of all road superintendents upon view or information to cause all swine found running at large upon roads within their respective districts to be impounded and such further