Section 53
SEC. 53. The provisions of this Act control, as far as they apply, the registration and operation of motor vehicles, and the licensing of owners, dealers, and chauffeurs, and the carrying of lights on all vehicles. Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "An Act to regulate motor vehicle traffic in the Philippine Islands, to provide for the registration of motor vehicles and the licensing of operators, and to require all vehicles on highways to carry lights, and for other purposes," as amended by Acts Numbered Twenty-two hundred and fifty-six, Twenty-three hundred and eighty-nine, Twenty-five hundred and eighty-seven, Twenty-six hundred and thirty-nine and Twenty-nine hundred and sixty-five are hereby declared to be and are superseded and repealed in their entirety, from the date on which this Act becomes effective. Such parts of subsections (i), (n), and (u) of section eight of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and seventy-four as amended by Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and sixty-' five, and of section twenty-one hundred and fifty-one of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, as are contrary to the provisions of this Act, are hereby declared to be and are superseded and repealed from the date on which this Act becomes effective. All other acts or parts of acts contrary to the provisions of this Act, and all ordinances, resolutions, regulations, restrictions, or other provisions of any city, municipality, board, authority, or person, in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby declared to be and are superseded and repealed from the date on which this Act becomes effective. The certificate of of registration issued under the provisions of this Act for any motor vehicle shall, while the same is effective and has not been suspended or revoked, authorize such motor vehicle to be used and operated on all public highways in any province, city, or municipality of the Philippine Islands. Every license issued under the provisions of this Act to any operator shall entitle the person to whom issued, while the same is effective and .not suspended or revoked, to operate the motor vehicles described in such license in any province, city or municipality of the Philippine Islands. No further fees than those fixed in this Act shall be exacted t. or demanded by any public authority of these Islands for the operation or use of any motor vehicle on any public highway, bridge or ferry, or for the operation of any motor vehicle by the owner thereof: Provided, however, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to exempt any motor vehicle from the payment of any lawful and equitable Insular, local or municipal property tax imposed thereupon: And provided, further, That any provincial board, city or municipal council or board, or other competent authority may exact and collect such reasonable and equitable toll fees for the use of the bridges and ferries, within their respective jurisdictions, as may be authorized and approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, and also for the use of the public roads, upon authorization by the Governor-General and the recommendation of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, but in all such cases, the approved schedule of tolls shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each toll station: And provided, further, That municipal councils are authorized and empowered to prescribe reasonable regulations and nominal fees not inconsistent with this Act for the conduct, control, and operation of garages, and to determine where and how vehicles may park upon or occupy, while not in use, the public streets or places.