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In 1924 the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, called a National
Conference on Street and Highway Safety, attended by representatives
from every State. This conference appointed a committee on
uniformity of traffic laws. This committee prepared the original
text of the Uniform Vehicle Code, which was approved in 1926 at the
meeting of the Second National Conference on Street and Highway
Safety.

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
participated to a large extent in the drafting of the text of the
Uniform Code, which was approved by the Commissioners and by the
American Bar Association.

The National Conference on Street and Highway Safety reviewed and
revised the text of the Code in 1930 and 1934. Both the original
text and the revisions were based upon studies of then existing
State traffic laws and it was the endeavor of the committee to
assemble from such State laws the most appropriate and desirable
regulations.

A report of the Committee on Laws and Ordinances of The President's
Highway Safety Conference in 1946 reviews the history of the Uniform
Vehicle Code and the extent to which it has been adopted throughout
the United States. Said Code was revised in the years 1938, 1944,
1948 and 1950.

During a long period the Uniform Code was divided into five acts,
entitled as follows:
Act I-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Administration, Registration,
Certificate of Title, and Antitheft Act.
Act II-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Operators' and Chauffeurs' License Act.
Act III-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Civil Liability Act.
Act IV-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act.
Act V-Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways.
The National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances, in
the year 1954, consolidated the several acts as listed above into
one text, entitled "The Uniform Vehicle Code."