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

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Ordinance of the City of Somervllle, which at the meet-
ing of January 23» 19^3 further action was delayed, was
on file.
Taken from table by Alderman Brady and placed
MOTIONS, ORDERS AMD RESOLUTIONS
Aldermen McCarthy and Stackpole offered the \
Draft of•
following draft of ordinance,
Ordinance~ ~"
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER XXXVI AND AMENDMENTS
^HERETO, OR REVISED ORDINANCES OF 1929, BY SUBSTJL.
TOTING IN PLACE THEROF THE FOLLOWING NEW CHAP-
TER, 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. Every vehicle used or to be used for the conveyance of
persons for hire from place to place, within the City of Somerville, shall
be deemed to be a hackney carriage within the meaning of this ordinance
except a street railway car or a trackless trolley vehicle within the meaning
of General Laws, Chapter 163, Section 2, or a motor vehicle, commonly
known as a jitney, operated in a manner and for the purposes
stated in General Laws, Chapter 159, Section 45, or a sightseeing automobile,
as defined in Statutes of 1913, Chapter 592, Section 1.
SECTION 2. No person shall drive or have charge of a hackney
carriage, nor shall any person or corporation set up and use a hackney
carriage unless licensed thereto, by the Board of Aldermen.
No owner or person having the care or ordering of a hackney carriage
shall suffer or allow any person other than a driver licensed by
the Board of Aldermen to drive such- carriage, subject to the provisions
of Section 26, in the hire of said vehicle.
SECTION 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding
twenty dollars for each offence; and any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall, in addition to said penalty, thereupon become liable to forfeit
his license_and be disqualified to hold a license thereafter.
SECTION 4. The Board of Aldermen may grant licenses to suitable
persons, who are owners of such vehicles, to set up and use them
as hackney carriages, and all persons who are qualified as drivers,
and in other respects, to drive and have charge of hackney carriages.
Said licenses to be issued by the Inspector of Carriages.
Such licenses will be given subject to such terms, conditions and
regulations, and upon the payment of such fees, as the Board of Aldermen
shall, from time to time, prescribe in general orders or otherwise.
SECTION 5. New applications for licenses and for permits for special
stands may be filed with the Board of Aldermen at any time, but applications
for the renewal of licenses and permits already in force shall be
filed annually in April. They shall be made on official forms provided by
the Board and shall contain all the information therein required. All
licenses and permits shall become void on the first day of May annually,
except as are granted in April as valid for the year beginning on the next
succeeding first day of May.
SECTION 6. No person shall be licensed to be a driver or an owner of
a public hackney carriage unless he can read, write and speak the English
language intelligently.
SECTION 7. Hackney Carriages shall be registered at the place at
which they are kept in Somerville, and in no case at the stands, public or
special, for which provision is made in Section 3 of this ordinance.
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