If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway in violation of any provisions of these rules and orders and the identity of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or the persons in whose name such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for such violation.
Any person convicted of a violation of any rule, regulation or order made hereunder, except as otherwise provided, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $20 for each offense.
These rules are adopted with the intent that each of them shall have force and effect separately and independently of every other, except insofar as, by express reference or necessary implication, any rule or any part of a rule is made dependent upon another rule or part thereof.
The provisions of these rules, so far as they are the same in effect as those of any valid existing rules, orders or regulations heretofore made by the Selectboard of Whately, relative to or in connection with official signs, lights, markings, signal systems or devices, shall be construed as a continuation thereof, but all other existing rules, orders and regulations so made for the regulation of vehicles are hereby expressly repealed. This repeal, however, shall not affect any punishment or penalty imposed or complaint or prosecution pending at the time of the passage hereof for an offense committed under any of the valid rules, orders or regulations hereby repealed.