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

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SECTION 8. No license or permit provided for in this ordinance shall
be sold, assigned or transferred without the consent of the Board of Aldermen
in writing; and any licensee who shall cease to be the owner or driver
of a hackney carriage shall at once surrender his license to the Board of
Aldermen.
SECTION 9. When a licensed owner changes his address or the place
at which a hackney carriage owned by him is kept, or when a licensed
driver changes his home address, his place of employment or his employer,
he shall within three days of such change notify the Board of Aldermen
and the Inspector of Carriages
SECTION 10. The Board of Aldermen may assign to any person, firm
or corporation licensed to set up and use a hackney carriage, a place as a
special stand for such licensed carriage, and the owner of more than one
licensed carriage may keep any one of his licensed carriages on a stand assigned
to him when it is not occupied by another licensed carriage owned
by him. No such special stand shall be assigned~or grantecTto ~ any person
who is not the owner of such licensed carriage. Permits for special
stands will be issued as distinct from licenses of owners or drivers and
may be revoked, suspended or transferred without affecting the validity
of such licenses.
SECTION 11. No vehicle shall be set up in front of any premises
without the written consent of the owner or the agent of the owner,
and the occupant of said premises.
SECTION 12. The Board of Aldermen may designate certain places
to be used as public stands by hackney carriages, not exceeding at any one
time the number specified for each place. Owners or drivers of carriages
shall not trespass upon special stands to which they have not been assigned,
and owners or drivers of carriages who have special stands within
one hundred (100) feet shall not trespass upon public stands; nor shall
more than two carriages owned by the same person be upon a public stand
at the same time to the exclusion of a hackney carriage owned by another
person,
SECTION 13. Every hackney carriage shall be provided with a lamp on
each side thereof, and said lamps shall be lighted when such vehicle is in
use in the night time. The number of the owner's license in figures in the
Arabic character of not less than one inch in length shall be so placed upon
each lamp as to be plainly seen from the street; and when such figures are
not cut in the glass, the paint or other material with which they are
marked must be renewed with such frequency as to keep them clear and
legible at all times.
SECTION 14. Licensed drivers will answer fully and civilly any questions
put to them by police officers in the performance of their duty,
SECTION 15. Every person having charge of a hackney carriage
shall at all times carry with him his license and a copy of the rates of fare
established and shall exhibit them to any passenger or police officer on
demand. He shall not demand from any passenger more than the established
rate of fare. When in a public place he shall not refuse, unless
previously engaged, or unless the conditions are such as those described
in the next succeeding paragraph, to carry any passenger lawfully entitled
to be carried in a hackney carriage-
SECTION 16. Any person refusing to pay, or attempting to avoid
payment of such fare, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding twenty
dollars for each offense.
SECTION 17. The Board of Aldermen will hold as unsuited to hold
a license any driver who gives information or service to a man or woman
seeking a place or a person for immoral purposes, or any driver who
offers such direction, information or service. They will regard as unsuited
to hold a license any driver who continues to convey from place to
place a person who is noisy or otherwise disorderly, or who conveys a
person who is intoxicated, even though not disorderly, except directly to
the place Tvhere the driver has reason to believe is the passenger's house,
lodging or other abiding place; but this provision shall not apply to cases
in which persons are conveyed by direction of a police officer. When a
passenger becomes noisy or otherwise disorderly while in a carriage and
persists in such "conduct, after warning, the driver may appeal to any
policeman who shall assist him in any lawful way and, if in the possession
of the necessary evidence, shall prosecute the offending passenger. The
police shall observe with particular care the matters to which this section
relates and report thereon to the Board of Aldermen and to the Inspector
of Carriages.