Section 14
SEC. 14. (a) The Director of Public Works shall cause to be prepared a form, which shall be furnished free of charge upon request, and upon which every person who desires hereafter to operate any motor vehicle as a chauffeur shall answer under oath all questions asked and give all information required by the Director of Public Works, including his true name, address and age, the number, date, and place of issue of his cedula, and the names, kinds, types, or styles of motor vehicles which he is competent to operate, together with the form and amount of their motive power, and whether his senses of sight and hearing are normal. (b) The Director of Public Works or his deputies are hereby authorized in their discretion to require an applicant for a license as chauffeur to answer such further questions or to submit to such an examination touching his qualifications as chauffeur, as in the judgment of the Director of Public Works or his deputies, will best disclose the applicant's fitness and competency to operate motor vehicles. (c) If after such examination, or without the same, the Director of Public Works or his deputies believe the applicant to possess the necessary qualifications and knowledge, they shall, upon the receipt of a fee of five pesos, issue to such applicant a license to operate as a chauffeur, motor vehicles of the kind, style, type, or make and power described in the application, until the last working day of February next following, or until such license is otherwise revoked. Each applicant for a license as chauffeur, except an owner not operating for hire, shall, upon notice that his qualifications have been found satisfactory, and prior to the issuance of said license, furnish the Director of Public Works or his deputies, three copies of a recent and readily recognizable photograph of said applicant, one copy of which shall be securely attached to the license, and two copies of which shall be filed and kept as provided under section eighteen of this Act. If the said Director or his deputies do not believe the applicant to be a person qualified to operate motor vehicles, they shall not issue a license as chauffeur to such applicant, in which event the applicant's fee shall be returned to him. (d) Every license issued to operate a motor vehicle shall have a line or place for the signature and the photograph of the licensee, and no license issued shall be effective as an authorization to the person to whom issued to operate a motor vehicle until after such person has written his usual signature in the place provided for that purpose. (e) Every application for a renewal of chauffeur's license, except in case of an owner not operating for hire, shall be accompanied by three copies of a readily recognizable photograph of the applicant, which photograph shall have been taken not exceeding three and one-half years prior to the date of application for renewal. Any license not renewed on or before the last working day of February of each year shall become delinquent. The penalty for renewal of a delinquent license shall be five pesos, in the discretion of the Director of Public Works. (f) The Director of Public Works may suspend for a period not exceeding three (3) months or, after hearing, revoke any license issued under the provisions of this Act, and may order any such license to be delivered to him whenever he has reason to believe that the holder thereof is an improper or incompetent person to operate motor vehicles, or is operating or using a motor vehicle in, or as an accessory to, the practice or commission of any unlawful act, or so as to endanger the public; and the license so suspended or revoked shall not be reissued, unless upon investigation, the Director of Public Works decides that the operator may again safely be permitted to operate. (g) Appeals from the decision of the Director of Public Works on the revocation of, or his refusal to renew, licenses under the provisions of this section may be taken to the Secretary of Commerce and Communications. (h) Any person who operates a motor vehicle without having procured a license or while his license is suspended or revoked, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty pesos nor more than two hundred pesos, or imprisonment for not less than ten or more than thirty days, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for each offense. (i) Every operator of a motor vehicle owned or controlled by the Government of the United States, the Government of the Philippine Islands or any of its subdivisions, or any provincial, city or municipal government within the Philippine Islands, shall be licensed in accord with the provisions of this section with the exception that no license or delinquent fees shall be collected therefor, and provided, that all licenses so issued shall bear the words "For Government "Vehicles Only" plainly marked or stamped in red ink across the face thereof. A license so marked or stamped shall not authorize an operator to operate a privately owned motor vehicle.