§ 878. Loss of benefit of statute of limitations

Corporations doing business in the Canal Zone which fail to comply with this chapter are not entitled to the benefit of the laws of the Canal Zone limiting the time for the commencement of civil actions. § 879. Penalties for violation; validity of contracts

(a) A corporation which does business in the Canal Zone without having complied with this chapter shall be fined not more than $500.

(b) Whoever acts as an officer of, or agent for, a corporation which has not complied with this chapter, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both.

(c) Every contract made by or on behalf of such a corporation affecting the liability thereof or relating to property within the Canal Zone is void on its behalf and on behalf of its assigns, but is enforceable against it or them.

§ 880. Corporations dealing in securities

A corporation licensed pursuant to chapter 79 of this title is not required to comply with sections 871-879 of this title.

§ 881. Surrender of license to do business

(a) A corporation licensed to do business in the Canal Zone may surrender its license by filing with the executive secretary of the Canal Zone Government a certificate signed and acknowledged by its president or a vice president and its secretary or an assistant secretary or treasurer, setting forth:

(1) the name of the corporation as shown on the records of the executive secretary, and the State or place of incorporation; (2) that it revokes its designation of agent for the service of process;

(3) that it surrenders its authority to do business in the Canal Zone and returns its license for cancellation, or that the license has been lost or destroyed, if such is the fact;

(4) that it consents that process against it in any action upon a liability or obligation incurred within the Canal Zone prior to the filing of the certificate of surrender may be served upon the executive secretary of the Canal Zone Government;

(5) a post office address to which the executive secretary may mail a copy of any process served upon him, which address may be changed from time to time by filing a certificate entitled "certificate of change of address of surrendered foreign corporation" signed and acknowledged by the president, a vice president, secretary, assistant secretary, or treasurer.

(b) The license shall be attached to the certificate of surrender unless the license has been lost or destroyed, in which case there shall be attached an affidavit of the president, vice president, secretary, assistant secretary, or treasurer to that effect.

(c) Mere retirement from doing business in the Canal Zone without filing a certificate of surrender of license does not revoke the appointment of any agent for the service of process within the Canal Zone. § 882. Service of process after revocation or surrender of license (a) After the license of a corporation has been revoked or surrendered, process against the corporation may be served upon the executive secretary of the Canal Zone Government in any action upon a liability or obligation incurred within the Canal Zone prior to the revocation or the filing of the certificate of surrender.

(b) Section 872(b) of this title applies to service of process upon the executive secretary pursuant to this section.

(c) The revocation or surrender of a license does not affect any action pending at the time.

951. Regulations prohibiting or governing sale or use of fireworks. 952. Penalties for violation.

Subchapter I-Health, Sanitation, and Quarantine

§ 911. Regulations of the President

The President shall prescribe, and from time to time may amend, regulations governing matters of health, sanitation and quarantine for the Canal Zone.

§ 912. Penalties for violation

Whoever violates a regulation issued pursuant to section 911 of this title shall:

(1) if it is a health or sanitation regulation, be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both; or (2) if it is a quarantine regulation, be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned in jail not more than 90 days, or both. Each day the violation continues constitutes a separate offense.

Subchapter II-Fire Prevention

§ 931. Regulations for fire protection

The Governor shall prescribe, and from time to time may amend, regulations for the prevention of, and protection against, fires in the Canal Zone.

Regulations issued pursuant to this section have no force within the boundaries of military or naval reservations in the Canal Zone, unless they are prescribed with the concurrence of the officers commanding the military and naval forces in the Canal Zone, as to the reservations within their respective jurisdictions.

§ 932. Penalties for violation

Whoever violates a regulation issued pursuant to section 931 of this title shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both.

Subchapter III-Fireworks

§ 951. Regulations prohibiting or governing sale or use of fireworks

The Governor may prescribe, and from time to time amend, such regulations prohibiting, limiting, or otherwise governing the sale and use of fireworks within the Canal Zone, or any parts thereof, as he deems necessary to public safety.

§ 952. Penalties for violation

Whoever violates a regulation issued pursuant to section 951 of this title shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both.

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CHAPTER 65-HIGHWAYS, ROADS, AND VEHICLES

1001. Regulations by the President.

1002. Agreements with Panama for reciprocal regulations. 1003. Penalties for violation.

§ 1001. Regulations by the President

(a) Until otherwise provided by the Congress, the President may make, publish, and enforce, and from time to time amend, rules and regulations for the use of the public highways and roads in the Canal Zone, and for the regulation, licensing, and taxing of the use and operation of all self-propelled vehicles using the public highways and roads, including speed limit, signals, tags, license fees, and all detailed regulations which may, from time to time, be deemed necessary in the exercise of the authority hereby conferred.

(b) The taxes on automobiles may be graded according to the value or the power of the machine.

§ 1002. Agreements with Panama for reciprocal regulations The President may make mutual agreements with the Republic of Panama concerning:

(1) the reciprocal use of the public highways and roads of the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama by self-propelled vehicles;

(2) taxes and license fees; and

(3) other matters of regulation to establish comity for the convenience of the residents of the two jurisdictions.

§ 1003. Penalties for violation

Whoever violates a regulation issued pursuant to section 1001 or 1002 of this title shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. '

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CHAPTER 67-INTERNAL SECURITY

1051. Photographing, etc., and possession of cameras in Canal Zone areas, 1052. Penalties for violating regulations pursuant to section 1051.

§ 1051. Photographing, etc., and possession of cameras in Canal

Zone areas

Whenever, in the interests of the protection of the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone, the Governor determines that a part or feature of the Panama Canal, or an area, object, installation, or structure within the Canal Zone, requires protection against the general dissemination of information relative thereto, he may prescribe, and from time to time amend, regulations prohibiting or restricting the:

(1) making of a photograph, sketch, drawing, map, or graphical representation of, within, or upon that part or feature of the Panama Canal, or that area, object, installation, or structure within the Canal Zone; and

(2) possession of a camera within any area in the Canal Zone which the Governor designates.

Regulations issued pursuant to this section do not apply to activities of the kind covered by this section which are conducted or performed in the course of their official duties by persons in the service or employ of the United States.

§ 1052. Penalties for violating regulations pursuant to section 1051

Whoever violates a regulation issued pursuant to section 1051 of this title shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned in jail not more than one year, or both.

Sec.

CHAPTER 69-NOTARIES PUBLIC

1071. Appointment and regulation by Governor.

§ 1071. Appointment and regulation by Governor

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The Governor shall:

(1) appoint all notaries public; and

(2) prescribe their powers and duties, their official seal, and the fees to be charged and collected by them.

CHAPTER 71-OATHS AND WITNESSES

1101. Powers of certain officers and boards with respect to oaths, witnesses, etc. 1102. Compelling attendance of witnesses and production of papers.

§ 1101. Powers of certain officers and boards with respect to oaths, witnesses, etc.

Members of the board of local inspectors, customs officers, quarantine officers, admeasurers, the coroner and deputy coroners, officers designated by the Governor or his designee to conduct hearings in reference to the exclusion and deportation of persons from the Canal Zone, and all administrative boards or officers authorized to take testimony, may, in connection with any investigation, hearing or inquest held by them, or with any other performance of their official duties: (1) summon witnesses to testify in matters within their respective jurisdictions;

(2) administer oaths; and

(3) require the production of books and papers necessary thereto.

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The district court may:

(1) issue process at the request of the officers or boards desig nated by section 1101 of this title to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers; and

(2) punish for contempt of court a person who refuses to obey the process, or who refuses to be sworn or to answer a material or proper question after being duly sworn.

CHAPTER 73-POSTAL SERVICE

1131. Application of Federal laws, rules, etc.; additional regulations.

1132. Maintenance and operation of postal service.

1133. Acceptance of postal-savings deposits.

1134. Rate of interest on postal-savings certificates.

1135. Faith of United States pledged to payment of deposits.

1136. Control of money-order and postal-savings fees.

1137. Deposit of money-order and postal-savings funds in the United States Treasury.

1138. Deposit of money-order and postal-savings funds in banks; security. 1139. Investment of money-order and postal-savings funds in securities of United

States.

1140. Interest and profits on money-order and postal-savings funds.

1141. Application of chapter to prior deposit money orders.

1142. Money orders unpaid after twenty years.

1143. Payment of revenues into Treasury.

§ 1131. Application of Federal laws, rules, etc.; additional regulations

(a) Except as otherwise provided by this Code, the postal service of the Canal Zone is governed by:

(1) the laws, rules, regulations, and conventions of the postal service of the United States which by their terms apply in the Canal Zone; and

(2) such additional laws, rules, and regulations as the Governor determines to be applicable to conditions existing in the Canal Zone.

(b) The Governor may prescribe regulations necessary for the maintenance and operation of the Canal Zone postal service.

§ 1132. Maintenance and operation of postal service

(a) The Governor shall:

(1) maintain and operate a postal service in the Canal Zone, including a money-order system, a parcel-post system, a postalsaving system, and other services necessary or convenient in connection with the postal service;

(2) establish and discontinue post offices;

(3) except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, prescribe the postage rates; and

(4) prescribe the postage stamps and other stamped paper which shall be used in the service.

(b) Domestic postage rates in the United States are applicable in the Canal Zone to regular mail exchanged with the United States. § 1133. Acceptance of postal-savings deposits

Under regulations prescribed by the Governor, post offices in the Canal Zone designated by him may receive postal-savings deposits, and issue therefor postal-savings certificates in the form prescribed by him.

§ 1134. Rate of interest on postal-savings certificates

Postal-savings certificates issued as provided by this chapter shall bear interest at such rate, not exceeding 3 percent per annum, as shall be established by the President.

§ 1135. Faith of United States pledged to payment of deposits The faith of the United States is pledged to the payment of postalsavings certificates issued as provided by this chapter, with accrued interest thereon, in the same manner as such faith is pledged by law with respect to deposits made in postal-savings depository offices in the United States.

§ 1136. Control of money-order and postal-savings fees

The Governor shall control the funds, exclusive of fees, received from the issuance of money orders and postal-savings certificates by the Canal Zone postal service.

§ 1137. Deposit of money-order and postal-savings funds in the United States Treasury

The Governor may cause to be deposited in the United States Treasury for safekeeping, but subject to his control, any of the funds, excluding interest and fees therefrom, received from the issuance of money orders and postal-savings certificates. Under regulations prescribed by the Governor, the funds so deposited may be withdrawn from time to time.

§ 1138. Deposit of money-order and postal-savings funds in banks; security

The Secretary of the Treasury shall designate one or more nationalbanking associations to be depositories, under regulations prescribed by him, of funds received from the issuance of money orders and postal-savings certificates, excluding interest and fees therefrom, and shall require the associations thus designated to give satisfactory security, by the deposit of United States bonds or otherwise, for the safekeeping and prompt payment of the funds deposited with them. The associations shall give the security required.