Schedule of registration fees.
Section 8
SEC. 8. Schedule of registration fees.—Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, each application for renewal of registration of motor vehicles shall be accompanied by an annual registration Tee in accordance with the following schedule: Private automobiles with pneumatic rubber tires, an amount based on their respective shipping weight or factory weight as indicated in the following schedule: 1,000 kilos or less P75.00 1,000 to 1,500 kilos 100.00 1,501 to 2,000 kilos 135.00 2,001 kilos and above 180.00 The factory or shipping weight of a private automobile shall be obtained from the Red Book edited by the National Market Report, Inc., of the United States of America: Provided, further, That in the case of automobiles with altered, changed or rebuilt bodies, the weight as obtained: by actual weighing shall be considered the vehicles weight: Provided, furthermore, That the increased registration fees herein prescribed shall not apply to jeeps and jeepneys for private use or for hire and the fees hereof shall be those prescribed for them before the approval of this Act The registered passenger capacity of passenger auto-mobiles operated for hire or for private use shall be determined as follows: For each adult passenger, a horizontal rectangular area, including seat and feet space, not less than thirty-five centimeters wide and sixty centimeters long, except in the front seat, which shall allow an area fifty centimeters wide for the operator. For each half passenger, a horizontal rectangular area, including seat and feet spaces, not less than seventeen and a half centimeters wide by sixty centimeters long, provided that each continuous row of seats shall not be allowed to have more than one-half passenger. Private motor trucks, passenger buses and trailers with pneumatic rubber tires, the sum of five pesos for every hundred kilograms of maximum allowable gross weight or fraction thereof. Private motor trucks, passenger buses and trailers with solid rubber tires or with part-solid and part-pneumatic rubber tires, the sum of seven pesos for every hundred kilograms of maximum allowable gross weight or fraction thereof. Private motorcycles and scooters of two or three wheels and bicycles with motor attachments, the sum of thirty pesos. The fee for registration of motor vehicles for hire shall be sixty percent more than the fee prescribed for private motor vehicles of the same category. The fee for registration of diesel-consuming vehicles shall be fifty percent more than that of vehicles using motor fuel other than diesel oil. The fee for registration of motor vehicles for hire shall be sixty percent more than the fees prescribed for private motor vehicles. No regular registration fees shall be charged for the general registration of motor vehicles contemplated under the dealer's classification: Provided, That the Commissioner of Land Transportation shall provide appropriate dealer's number plates corresponding to the classification of vehicles hereinbelow described, and registration fee for every set of such dealer's number plates shall be in accordance with the following schedule of rates: Two hundred pesos for each truck or trailer; One hundred pesos for each passenger automobile; and Twenty pesos for each motorcycle and the like. Registration under the "Government Motor Vehicle" classification shall be free of charge, upon request of the chief of bureau or office concerned. Motor vehicles not intended to be operated or used upon any public highway, or which are operated on highways not constructed or maintained by the Government, or are intended not to be used or operated at all, shall be exempt from payment of the registration fees provided in this Act, but shall each pay an annual recording and service fee of fifteen pesos: Provided, however, That no refund, credit for, or reimbursement of registration fees or part thereof shall be made to any owner on account of the discontinuance of the use or operation of a motor vehicle subsequent to the payment of such registration fees: Provided, further, That in the event motor vehicles exempted under this section shall be found operated on my public highways, the regular registration fees and Surcharges shall be collected in addition to whatever penalties may be imposed for violation of this Act. The Commissioner of Land Transportation shall provide distinctive lumber plates for vehicles exempted from payment of Regular registration fees, and the owner of the vehicles concerned shall pay four pesos for each set of such number plates. The maximum allowable gross weight of a motor truck, passenger bus, or trailer, upon which to compute the registration fee thereof, shall be determined by the Commissioner of Land Transportation. He shall, from time to time as the need of the service may require, prepare, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, suitable tables of maximum allowable loads per wheel for different sizes and kinds of tires. The registration fees provided in this Act for trucks may be payable in two equal installments, the first to be mid on or before the last working day of February if for hire, and in March if private; and the second to be aid on or before the last working day of August: Provided, That the fifty per cent penalty shall apply only to the unpaid balance of the remaining period of delinquency.