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SECTION 18. Every person Having charge of a hackney carriage in
a public place shall wear on the left breast of his outside coat, or on the
front of its collar just above the number of his license in Arabic figures
not less than one inch in length. The figures must be one of the patterns
approved by the Board of Aldermen. They must be worn upright, and so
placed as to be easily read from the front; whether the licensed person
be on foot or on his vehicle.
SECTION 19. No person having the charge, care or ordering of any
hackney carriage, except an omnibus, shall take up or carry any passenger
after the carriage has been occupied or engaged by any prior passenger
until such prior passenger shall have discharged said carriage, without
the consent of such prior passenger. Any such prior passenger
shall not be obliged or requested to pay any extra fare or fee for refusing
such consent."
SECTION 20. Every person having charge of a hackney carriage
shall immediately after delivering any passenger search said carriage
for any property which may have been left therein, and any property,
found therein by any person having the care or ordering of any hackney
carriage, and not restored to the owner thereof within twenty-four
hours, shall be delivered by the finder thereof to the Inspector of Carriages
in the Police Department.
SECTION 21. No person having charge of a hackney carriage shall
solicit passengers except by a motion of the hand, nor in any public way -
or place except when such carriage is rightfully standing upon some
special or public stands; nor shall he suffer or allow any person to. ride
upon the driver's seat of a hackney carriage, except when the seats inside
the carriage are fully occupied, and then only when the person so
riding is a genuine passenger.
SECTION 22. No owner, driver or other person having the care or
ordering of any licensed hackney carriage shall suffer the same to stop
in any street, square, lane or alley of this city more than five minutes,
without some proper person to take care of the same, or more than
twenty, minutes in any case; provided, however, that nothing in this
section shall be taken to apply to licensed hackney carriages rightfully
standing upon special or public stands.
SECTION 23. Every driver of any licensed hackney carriage shall
remain near to such vehicle while it is'unemployed, or standing in the
streets or squares of the city, unless he shall be necessarily absent
therefrom in the course of his duty and business as such driver; and
he shall so keep his hackney carriage so that it shall not obstruct
said streets or squares or other public passages, or in any other manner
violate the law, or the ordinances of the Board of Aldermen.
SECTION 24. Every person having charge of a hackney carriage
shall obey the directions of any police officer respecting the
standing of such carriages while waiting for passengers and the
route to be taken in going to or from the place of standing.
SECTION 25. No person having charge of any hackney carriage shall
receive or permit to be placed therein, nor convey in or upon the same, any
person sick or infected with any contagious disease, or the body of any
person deceased from such a disease.
SECTION 26. The owners and drivers of hackney carriages propelled
by mechanical motors shall be subject to all the provisions of the preceding
sections of this ordinance, excepting Section 13, and shall be subject
also to the following special provisions:—
(a) An applicant for a license as owner of a motor hackney carriage
shall present for examination in the case of each car a valid certificate of
registration issued by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, the date of which
together with the car number shall be entered on the application and also
.on the license of the Board of Aldermen and recorded with the Inspector
of Carriages in the Police Department.
(b) An applicant for a license to drive a motor hackney carriage shall
present for examination a valid license as a chauffeur issued to him by
the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, and the date and the number thereof
shall be entered on the application, and also on the license of the Board
of Aldermen and the Inspector of Carriages by licensed owners and chauffeurs
as the case may be, immediately upon any change in residence or
employment, or in the place at which a car is kept, or upon any change
in the certificate of registration, the license to operate or the car number
as issued by the Registrar of Motor Vehicals.
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