Section 4
SEC. 4. Section twenty-four of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 24. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any highway in these Islands recklessly or at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the width, traffic, grades, crossings, curvatures, and other conditions of the highway and to the conditions of the atmosphere and weather, or so as to endanger the property or the safety or rights of any person or so as to cause excessive or unreasonable damage to the highway. If the rate of speed of any motor vehicle operated within any city or the poblacion limits of any municipality exceeds twenty miles per hour such rate of speed shall be prima facie evidence that the person operating same is operating at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, and in violation of the provisions of this section. If the rate of speed of a motor vehicle operated on any public highway of the Philippine Islands, where the operator's view of the road and traffic is obstructed, when approaching a crossing or intersecting public highway or when traversing a bridge, or a sharp turn, or a steep descent, or a curve in the highway, or when meeting any other motor vehicle or conveyance moving in an opposite direction, exceeds fifteen miles an hour, such rate of speed shall be prima facie evidence that the person operating such motor vehicle is operating the same at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, and in violation of the provisions of this section. If the rate of speed of a motor vehicle operated upon any highway of the Philippine Islands in passing any street railway car that is stationary or about to stop, on the same side of the car on which passengers are ordinarily received and discharged exceeds ten miles an hour, such rate of speed shall be prima facie evidence that the person operating such motor vehicle is operating the same at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper and in violation of the provisions of this section. "No person shall unreasonably obstruct or impede the passage or right of travel of any motor vehicle or operator thereof and no operator shall unreasonably obstruct the passage of any other vehicle or person on any highway. Every person found guilty of violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty pesos or by imprisonment of not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment."