Issuance and authority of chauffeur's license; professional chauffeur's badge.
Section 26
SEC. 26. Issuance and authority of chauffeur's license; professional chauffeur's badge.—If after 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 issue to such applicant a license to operate as chauffeur, motor vehicles of the kind, style, type, or power described in the applications, until the last working day of February of the year following the issue, or until such license is otherwise suspended or revoked. If the Director of Public Works or his deputies do not believe the applicant to be a person qualified to operate motor vehicles, they shall not issue a license to such applicant, in which event, the applicant's fee shall be returned to him. Every license issued under the provisions of this Act to any chauffeur shall entitle the person to whom issued, while the same is valid and 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: Provided, however, That every licensed professional chauffeur, before operating a public service motor vehicles registered under classifications (d) to (i) inclusive of section seven hereof, shall apply for and receive from the Director of Public Works, upon payment of the sum of fifty centavos, a chauffeur's badge which he shall at all times while so operating a motor vehicle display in plain sight upon the band of his cap or upon the lapel of his outer coat. Such chauffeur's badge shall be of metal with a plainly readable distinguishing number assigned to the licensee stamped thereon. The badge which shall be issued in accordance with the provision of this section shall be surrendered by the chauffeur to the Director of Public Works whenever his license or expires or shall have been suspended or revoked.