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PUBLIC LAW 36&-MAY 25, 1954
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action arising out of ownership, maintenance, or use of vehicles of a type subject to registration under the laws of the District of Columbia. SEC. 35. MEANING OF "PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
FUTURE".—The term "proof of financial responsibility for the future" as used in this Act shall mean: Proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on account of accidents occurring subsequent to the effective date of said proof, arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of the District of Columbia in the amount of $10,000 because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident, and, subject to said limit for one person, in the amount of $20,000 because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, and in the amount of $5,000 because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident. Wherever used in this Act the term "proof of financial responsibility" or "proof" shall be synonymous with the term "proof of financial responsibility for the future". SEC. 36. MEANING OF "JUDGMENT" AND "STATE".—The following
words and phrases when used in this article shall, for the purpose of this article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section. (a) The term "judgment" shall mean: Any judgment which shall have become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation on appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any State, the District of Columbia, or of the United States, upon a cause of action arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of any vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of the District of Columbia, for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or destruction of property including the loss of use thereof, or upon a cause of action on an agreement of settlement for such damages. (b) The term "State" shall mean: Any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or any province of the Dominion of Canada. SEC. 37. PROOF REQUIRED U P O N CERTAIN CONVICTIONS.—Whenever,
under the law of the District of Columbia, the license of any person is suspended or revoked by reason of a conviction or forfeiture of bail in any of the following oiftenses: (1) Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of any intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug; (2) Any homicide committed by means of a motor vehicle; ' (3) Leaving the scene of an accident in which the motor vehicle driven by him was involved and in which there is personal injury, without giving assistance or making known his identity and address and the identity and address of the owner of said vehicle; (4) Reckless driving involving personal injury; or (5) Any felony in uie commission of which a motor vehicle is used; the Commissioners shall suspend the registration of all vehicles registered in the name of such person as owner, except that (a) if such owner has previously given or shall immediately give and thereafter maintains proof of financial responsibility for the future with respect to all such vehicles registered by such person as the owner, the Commissioners shall not suspend such registration unless otherwise required or permitted by law, and (b) if a conviction arose out of the operation, with permission, of a vehicle owned by or leased to the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State or a municipality thereof,
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