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26 of 1915 - Regulating motor busses 'Jitneys' ROLL CALL VOTING Yea No p Shearman - - I move that Report ...... ..............of,.......,...,. s"z..w,.,D.4r.P., .,Y'........................,.......... Wells be Received and filed � , ordinance, Bill No. 26, ordered filed, Lawrence and the substitute, ordinance laid over to come up in Morris regular order. Mr.Chairman Result Commissioner-vt blic Affairs & Finance. Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,Utah,....._.MarCh .l j..,..................... 1,-)4(A , ("27/17..ii-j1-11-). City Recorder. Temporary Chairman t+Take rity, H.J.DIN INLAY CITY ATT°RNEY SALT LAKE CITY CORPORATION AARON MYERS W.W.LITTLE W.H.FOLLA ND ASSISTANTS LAW DEPARTMENT Salt Lake City, Utah, Maroh 15, 1915. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Belt Lake City, Utah. Gentlemen:- In the matter of the ordinance regulating jitney busses or motor busses, presented to your honorf:ble body and referred to this offioe March 1, 1915, I would respectfully say: I have delivered to each one of the members of the Board of Commissioners a copy of a new ordinance which I have drawn, and have filed the original with the City Recorder, and I herewith return to you the ordinance referred to this office March first, 1915. Very respectfully, C"ity Attorney. .,`_ _OLL CALL r..ch...1.5.4 191_...5. -- --- - VOTING Yes No - Salt Lake City, Utah, __ _'eb_ruary _1915. Lawrence Morris I move that the ordinance be passed. Shearman / �s- e '171 (/. Wells (' Mr.Chairman Result � AN ORDINANCE An Ordinance regulating the running of motor busses in, along, through, over and upon the streets of Salt Lake City, requir- ing and providing for the licensing thereof, fixing the amount of license fees to be paid therefor, end providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions hereof. BE IT O1DAINED by the Board of Commissioners of halt Lake City, Utah: SECTION 1. The words "motor bus', as used in this Ordinance, shall mean and include any motor vehicle engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, in, along, through, over or upon any of the streets of Salt Lake City, and which shall be operated either regularly or at intervals over or along a definite or regular route, or between definite points, or along any of the general lines of local travel or movement of the people from one part of the City to any other part of the City, or which shall be operated for the purpose of affording a means of local transportation similar to that ordinarily afforded by the operation of street cars, by accept- ing, carrying and discharging as passengers such persons as offer themselves for transportation along the route or course of its operation. Provided, that automobiles used exclusively as sight-seeing cars, and hotel busses operated in connection with hotels and used exclusively in transporting transients between hotels and depots, shall not be considered motor busses within the meaning of this Ordinance. The word "street", as used in this Ordinance, shall mean and include all public streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys, lanes, high-ways, root-ways, sidewalks, public parks, parkings, roads, viaducts or other public places laid out for the use of vehicles. The word "person', as used in this Ordinance, shall mean and include persons, partnerships, firms, companies and cor- porations, and the person owning, controlling or having charge or a motor bus. li I SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to use, ! operate or run, or cause or permit any of his agents or employes to use, operate or nun, a motor bus in, along, through, over or upon any of the streets of Salt Lake City without first procuring a license therefor, and no license therefor shall be issued in !I I any other than the following manner: The person desiring a license to operate a motor bus it jj shall file with the Assessor and Collector of. License `Faxes an application therefor, stating: (a) The type and make of motor car proposed to be used as such motor bus. (b) The horse power thereof. (c) The factory number thereof. (d.) The state license number thereof. , (e) The seating capacity thereof according to its trade rating. If the motor car has been adapted for use as such • � I either by converting a freight carrying truck into a passenger • carrying vehicle, or by reconstructing, modifying or adding to the body or seating arrangement of a passenger carrying motor car, a statement of (1) its carrying capacity in pounds or tons; (2) its rated seating capacity as adapted; (3) the method and n teri.als !I used in such adaptation. (f) The name, residence and age of the person to be • in immediate charge thereof as driver, and the number of his chauffeur's license. (g) i'he termini between which such motor bus is pro- I posed to be operated. (h) The schedule showing the times of departure from the termini, according to which it is proposed to operate. The Assessor and Collector of license Taxes shall. i promptly refer such application to the Board of Commissioners. 11 The Board of Commissioners may grant such application as file- or grant the same as it may be modified; or if the Board of/ Ii '(/ -2- I I 1Commi.ssioners shall fini that the person named in subdivision (f) lof this Section is not qualified. by experience or otherwise to operate such motor bus, or that the motor car described in such application is not a safe car for use as a motor bus, or that the schedule described in such application is unsatisfactory, the Board of Commissioners may deny such application. Upon the grafting of such application as filed or modified and the payment of the required license fee, the License lAssessor and Collector shall issue a certificate of license to !operate or cause to be operated the motor bus therein described Iibetween the termini and according to the schedule therein stated and between no other termini and on no other street and according ko no other schedule. The termini and schedule stated in such license certificate may be altered by o±der of the Board of Commissioners, either upon application of the person holding suth !license or upon the initiative of the Board of Commissioners. SECTION ill. The anmal license tax for the operation Wand running of a motor bus over one route in the streets of Salt HLake City shall be paid in advance into the City `Treasury in the i': sum and according to the schedule following, to wit: For license to run a motor bus carrying four passengers, lor less, Seventy-five Dollars per annum. For license to run a motor bus carrying more than four persons and less than ten persons, One Hundred Dollars per annum. For license to run a motor bus carrying ten or more �persons, One Hundred Twenty-five Dollars per annum. SECTION IV. All motor busses shall be routed to the City ( limits or as near to the City limits as is possible, and every motor bus shall be scheduled to run, and shell run, continuously or at regular intervals, by consecutive trips over the entire I length of its route from 5:30 o'clock A.M. to 12:00 o'clock Midnight 1 each day, including :;undays and holidays. -3- 1 I� I it I ji III I SECTION V. Every motor bus shall have painted on eachII side thereof, in letters at least three inches in height and one inch in width so that the same shall be readily legible to the public, the name of the person, fine or corporation owning the same, the name of the person, firm or corporation operating the I!seine, the number and date of the license, and the termini of the route over which it runs. SECTION VI. Every motor operated When it is dusk or dark shall be thoroughly artifiehlly illuminated din the inside, and the name of the owner and operator, the number of the license, and the termini painted on the sides thereof shall also be illuminated so that the same shall be readily legible to the publi . in the dusk or dark. 1'I SECTION VII. Every person operating any such motor bus shall abide by each and all of the ordinances, rules and regula.tiois of the City of Salt Lake now in force or that may hereafter be put in force,oalculated to regulate or govern said motor bus business the h and traffic upon or along the streets of tx e_/City. SECTION VIII: It shall be unlawful: jl (a) To run or operate any motor bus upon or along any street not included. in the route described in the license for running such motor bus; or (b) To fail, refuse or neglect to operate a motor bus between the termini and according to the sdhedule stated in the license issued for the operation of such motor bus, except upon jthe surrender ofsuch license; or � I I 1 - (c) To run or operate a motor bus on Main street at any I i I place between Tourth South Street and south Temple street, except to cross at regular intersections; or (d) To stop any motor bus or permit such bus to remain standing upon any street for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers if the side of such bus nearest the curb of such yp•Ereet is more than two feet distant from such curb; or 'f( ) —4— I'I I it (e) to run or operate any motor bus while any person is lI ;standing or sitting upon any running board, fender or door thereof, Ijor while any person riding on such motor bus is outside of the ,body thereof, or to carry or attempt to carry more persons than said (motor bus will comfortably seat. It shall also be unlawful for any person to stand or sit upon any fender, running board or door of ('any motor bus, or to occupy any portion of such motor bus outside Iiof the body thereof while such motor bus is in motion; (f) To drive or operate any motor bus upon any street ii unless the owner thereof shall. have filed with the Board. of Commissioners a casualty insurance policy issued by a casualty 4nsurance company authorized to do business in the State of Utah, form approved by the Board of commissioners, inuring to the Ise 'and benefit of any person or persons who may suffer injuries to (Person or property occasioned by negligence in the operation of such caseperson or persons occasioned (motor bus (and. in of death of any by negligence in the operation of such motor bus, then inuring to '..the use and benefit of the heirs of such person or persons). Such 'policy of casualty insurance may provide a limit of liability of I !Ave Thousand (05,000.00) Dollars in the case of each person injure Or killed in the operation of such motor bus, and may provide a ilimit of liability of dive Thousand (?p5,000.00) Dollars in the case f property damaged or destroyed. in any one accident in the oper- Ition of such motor bus, but such policy of casualty insurance shall rave no other limitations; or (g) to drive or operate any motor bus upon any street finless the driver or operator thereof shall. have a public chauffeur's bicense; or (h) to reconstruct, alter, modify or add to the body or II !beating arrangement of any motor bus after the license therefor its issued. , without first applying for and receiving the consent of !the Board of Commissioners; or / l (i) To operate any motor bus during the period from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise unless the inside of the body thereof shall be effectively illuminated.. SECTION IX. It shall be unlawful for any one, by himself, agent or employee, t o drive or operate, or to cause to be driven or operated, any motor bus if the driver or operator is less than twenty-one years of age. ;ACTION X. It shall be unlawful for any motor bus operator to run past or within twenty feet of any other motor bus or other common carrier for the purpose of reaching prospective passengers ahead of such other motor bus or other common carrier. SECTION XI. The license for tie running and operating of any motor bus may be revoked at any time by the Board of fi Commissioners if it shall appear that the owner or operator of such motor bus is or employs a careless or reckless driver or operator, or in case such owner, driver or operator shall violate any provision of this ordinance, or any rule, regulation or pro- vision now in force or that may hereafter be put in force, cover- ing traffic or the business of carrying passengers for hire in motor busses in, upon or through the streets of Salt I,Fdte City. ;I SECTION XII. If, at any time during the life of any I such license, the holder thereof allows his liability insurance to lapse or to become ineffective or terminate, in whole or in part, then at the same time the license of such holder shall ipso facto become null and void. SECTION XIII. Any person who shall violate any provision I of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- ! viction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Fifty ( 50.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Should any person be twice so convicted, the license of such person shq.11 { I thereupon be cancelled. ' -g_ I ' • I� I I � SECTION XIV. All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in so far as the same may be in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. SECTION XV. All licenses from Salt Lake City now in force in favor of any pers.,n, firm or c orporati on, for such bust- - Jness as is by this ordinance regulated, shall cease to be in force from and after legi days from 1 date of t -passage of phis ordinance. At 4d tC-Nruey ,1 cens.8� ld ay 1 • t earliest.' Ilpart of his lic 11.1 t i tems‘�_nowt rc fu ded� s , . 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