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LICENSES 2349
been perfected or by final affirmance on appeal, rendered against him
by a court of competent jurisdiction in this State or in any other State or
the District of Columbia, or in any District Court of the United States,
or by a court of competent jurisdiction in any Province of the Dominion
of Canada, for damages on account of personal injury, including death,
or damage to property in excess of Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) resulting
from the ownership, maintenance, use or operation hereafter of a motor
vehicle shall be forthwith suspended by the Commissioner upon receiving
a certified copy or transcript of such final judgment from the court in
which the same was rendered showing such judgment or judgments to have
been still unsatisfied more than thirty (30) days after the same became
final, as aforesaid, and shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed,
nor shall any motor vehicle be thereafter registered in his name while
any such judgment remains unstayed, unsatisfied and subsisting and until
every such judgment is satisfied or discharged and until the said person
gives proof of his ability to respond in damages as required in Section 165
hereof, for future accidents. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court,
or of the court where it has no clerk, in which any such judgment is
rendered, to forward immediately after the expiration of said thirty
(30) days, as aforesaid, upon request of the judgment creditor, to the
Commissioner a certified copy of such judgment or a transcript thereof,
as aforesaid. In the event the defendant is a non-resident, it shall be the
duty of the Commissioner to transmit to the Commissioner of Motor Vehi-
cles or officer in charge of the issuance of operators' permits and registra-
tion certificates of the State or Province of which the defendant is a resi-
dent, a certified copy of the said judgment. If after such proof has been
given, any other such judgment shall be recovered against such person for
an accident occurring before such proof was given, but after January 1,
1932, such license or licenses and certificate or certificates shall again be
and remain so suspended, and no other such license or certificate shall be
issued to such person while any such judgment remains unsatisfied and
subsisting, as aforesaid.
Provided, however, anything in this sub-title to the contrary notwith-
standing, that
(1) When $5,000 has been credited upon any judgment or judgments
rendered in excess of that amount for personal injury to or the death of one
person as the result of any one accident; or
(2) When, subject to the limit of $5,000 for any one person so injured
or killed, the sum of $10,000 has been credited upon any judgment or
judgments rendered in excess of that amount for personal injury to or the
death of more than one person as the result of any one accident; or
(3) When $1,000 has been credited upon any judgment or judgments
rendered in excess of that amount for damage to property as the result of
any one accident; resulting from the ownership, maintenance, use or opera-
tion of a motor vehicle, then and in such event, such payment or payments
shall be deemed a satisfaction of such judgment or judgments for the
purposes of this section only.
And provided further, that a judgment debtor to whom this section
applies may, for the sole purpose of giving authority to the Commissioner
to authorize the judgment debtor to operate a motor vehicle thereafter, on
due notice to the judgment creditor, apply to the court in which the trial
judgment was obtained for the privilege of paying such judgment in install-
ments, and the court, in its discretion and without prejudice to any other
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