Section 20
SEC. 20. The Director of Public Works or his representatives are hereby authorized at any time to examine and inspect any motor vehicle, in order to determine whether the same is unsafe, improperly equipped, or otherwise unfit to be operated because of possible danger to the chauffeur, to the passenger, or to the public. If the Director of Public Works finds any such vehicle to be unsafe as aforesaid, he may refuse to register the same, or if the same be registered he may revoke such registration or suspend the force and operation thereof, until the defects, improper equipment, or other cause of insecurity or danger has been remedied. The Director of Public Works' action under this section shall be communicated in writing to the owner of the vehicle, and if the vehicle be property of the Government or any of its political subdivisions to the chief of the bureau or office to which the vehicle in question belongs. Any owner, or other person in control or possession of such vehicle, and every chief of bureau or office, in the case of a vehicle owned by the Government or any of its political subdivision's, who operates, or who permits the same to be operated upon a highway after such notice, and any chauffeur, who operates the same upon a highway knowing the registration of such vehicle to have been suspended or revoked, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five pesos nor more than one hundred pesos. If, after the suspension or revocation of the registration of a motor vehicle, any person is injured, or damage is caused as a result of the operation of such motor vehicle, the owner of such vehicle, or the person having control and authority over such vehicle, shall be guilty of the offense described in the first paragraph of article five hundred and sixty-eight of the Penal Code and shall be subject to the penalties therein prescribed.