V O L U M E 5 9 - City of Somerville

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7 Franklin St.,
Mrs* Catherine Sullivan for injuries received March 23,
Placed on file*
1948, 181 Somerville Avenue,
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Order appropriation of $14,287*16 to the
SanitaryJ)ept«, Labor Account to cover the amount spent
on Labor in excess of amount allowed in budget for the '
months of January, February and March, which at the meeting
of April 20, 1948, further action was delayed, received
action as follows:
In Board of Aldermen, April 23, 1948. Taken from
table. During discussion Aldermen Butler, Capuano and
Whitney invoked Section 15 and further action was delayed
for one week.
ordinance,
MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS
Alderman McCarthy offered the following draft of
ORDINANCE No.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER XXXVI AND AMEND-
MENTS THERETO,, REVISED ORDINANCES OF 1929. BY
SUBSTITUTING IN PLACED THEREQH THE FOLLOWING NEW
CHAPTER XXXVI," RELATIVE TO HACKNEY CARRIAGES,
HACKNEY STANDS AND HACKNEY DRIVERS. -
Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville,
as follows:
SECTION 1. Except as otherwise provided in chapter two hundred and
sixty-three of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, the Chief of
Police of the City of Somerville shall have exclusive authority to make
rules and orders for the regulation of hackney carriages and hackney
stands, both as defined in section two, within the limits of said city, with
penalties for the violation thereof not exceeding twenty dollars for each
offence. Such rules and orders shall not take effect until they have been
published at least once in a newspaper published in said city.
SECTION 2. Each vehicle used or designed to be used for the conveyance
of persons for hire from place to place within the City of Somerville,
except a street or elevated railway car or a trackless trolley
vehicle, within the meaning of section two of chapter one hundred and
sixty-three of the General Laws, or a motor vehicle, known as a jitney,
operated in the manner and for the purposes set forth in chapter one
hundred and fifty-nine A of the General Laws, or a sight-seeing automobile
licensed under chapter three hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen
hundred and thirty-one, shall be deemed to be a hackney carriage
within the meaning of sections two to sure, inclusive, of this ordinance;
and in said sections, unless the context otherwise expressly requires, the
words "drive" and "driver" shall be respectively deemed to include
"operate" and "operator" and a private hackney stand shall be one
established only upon private property, for hackney carriage purposes,
of all licensees under section four.
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