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Home My WebLink About26 of 1918 - Amending Section 886 license on vehicles ROLL CALL ,,.,,,,00DE,E....... VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City,Utah, April..1.,... 1918 Crabbe --g!. -- 1 move that the ordinance be passed. Green IV j Neslen Scheid Mr. Chairman Result AN ORDINANCI As ordinance amending Seotion 886 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1913, as oontained in Chapter 33 of said Revised Ordinances, relating to licenses, as amended by an ordinance passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City July 1, 1915. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION 1. That Section 886 of the Revised Ordinanoes of Salt Lake City of 1913, as contained in Chapter 33 of said Revised Ordinances, relating to licenses, as amended by an ordinanoe passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City July 1, 1915, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 886. VEHICLES. LICENSES. It shall be unlaw- ful for any person to use, operate or run, or to cause or permit any of his agents or employees to use, operate or ran, for the purposes of his business, a wagon, automobile or vehiole of any description upon the streets of Salt Lake City, without first obtaining a license for each vehicle so used and operated. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to vehicles used for pleasure only, nor to vehicles used for business purposes by any person who pays a license tax to -1- k I Salt Lake City under the ordinances thereof, for the privilege of engaging in or carrying on the business in which such vehicle is principally used. The license tax for the use, operation and running of vehicles on the streets of Salt Lake City shall be paid annually in advance into the City Treasury, in the sums and according to the schedule following, to-wit: Passenger Vehicles: For license to run a passenger vehicle drawn by one horse $10.00 For license to run a passenger vehicle drawn by two horses 12.00 For license to run a street stand automobile for public hire, carrying 7 or less persons, including the driver 25.00 For license to run a street stand automobile for public hire, oarrying more than 7 persons, including the driver 45.00 Freight Vehicles: For license to run a two-horse vehicle for the carriage of brick, coal, lumber, stone, earth, gravel, sand, cement, lime, tiling, steel beams and other steel and iron products, oil, gasoline, goods, wares, merchandise, manufactured articles, express matter, baggage, freight and material of any and every kind- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6.00 For license to run a one-horse vehicle for the carriage of material of any and every kind, as described above 5.00 For license to run a three-horse or four-horse vehicle for the carriage of material of any and every kind, as described above 10.00 For license to run a motor vehicle of any description of the capacity of one ton or less, for the carriage of material of any and every kind, as desoribed above 10.00 For license to run a motor vehicle of any desoription of the capacity of more than one ton and less than three tons, for the carriage of material of any and every kind, as described above 15.00 For license to run a motor vehicle of any desoription of the oapaoity of more than three tons, for the carriage of material of any and every kind, as described above 20.00 A license for any vehicle under the provisions of this ordinance may be issued for a term of six months upon the payment of one-half of the amount of the annual license ping -2- ten per cent additional; provided, however, that when an application ie made after the first day of July of any year, the licensee shall be required to make payment only for the unexpired portion of such half-yearly period, and the oertifioate of license shall be for such unexpired period. Every vehicle licensed under this ordinance shall have fastened thereupon in such manner that the same may be plainly seen, a metallic plate, to be furnished by the Lioense Assessor and Collector, bearing the name of the class of such vehicle and the year for which it is issued; for such plate the licensee shall pay the sum of twenty-five cents; and it shall be unlawful to use, operate or run any such vehicle, although the same be duly licensed, upon the streets of Salt Lake City unless such plate is attached thereto; and it shall be unlawful for any person, upon the expiration of such license, or upon the revocation of the same, to permit or suffer said lioense number to be or remain attached to his vehicle, or to operate or run his vehicle after his license has expired, or has been revoked; and each day any wagon, automobile or vehicle is used, operated or run upon the streets of Salt Lake City without the owner thereof having procured a license therefor in oompliance with the provisions of this ordinance, shall constitute and be considered a separate and distinot offense hereunder. It shall be unlawful for any licensee to sell, trans- fer or assign any license issued under the provisions of this ordinance, except by permission of the Board of Commissioners. It shall be unlawful for any person to hire, engage or employ for the purposes of his business, any teamster or -3- automobile owner who shall not have procured a license for his vehicle as herein provided. Any person having a residence or plaoe of business without the limits of Salt Lake City, who shall use, operate or run a vehicle on the streets of said city for the purposes of his business, shall be required to procure a license for each such vehicle, according to the schedule and provisions of this ordinance. It shall be unlawful for the owner, driver or person in obarge of an automobile licensed to carry passengers for hire, to stand or permit the same to stand upon any street in the congested district of this city as defined by ordinance, within fifty feet of another automobile licensed to carry passengers for hire, longer than is necessary to take on or discharge passengers, not exceeding ten minutes; To clean or repair the same on any street of this city, except in ease of an accident, in which case only such repairs shall be made thereto as will enable the same to be moved off the street; To at any time engage in loud conversation with another person, or to indulge in any noisy or boisterous conduct; At any time to start the motor of such vehicle, or permit the same to run more than two minutes before leaving the place where the same is standing; or to permit the motor of such vehicle to run after such vehicle has been brought to a stop, except when about to leave the place where such vehicle is standing. In case of the conviction of any person the second time for violating the provisions of this section, relating to standing fifty feet from another licensed automobile, or in cleaning or repairing an automobile on the street, or engaging in loud. conversation or other noisy or boisterous! -4- Lz � I a_ I conduct, or as to starting the motor of an automobile, except when about to leave the place where the same is standing, or allowing the motor to run after the vehicle has been brought to a stop, the court in passing sentence, in addition to the sentence pronounced under Section 688 of the Revised Ordinances of 1913, may enter as part of the 3u4gment that the license for the automobile in charge of sud}i person at the time of the commission of suet. second *dense be revoked. SECTION 2. In the opinion of the Board o; Commissioners it iS,,neoeseary for the peace, health and safety of the City that this ordinance become effective at once. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect upo1 its first publication. Passed b`P the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, April li , 1918. p, lr . 22� City Reder. -5- I 5t.li p . 2„,. .... ., ,...,:, ,,2 1 .a r" Z3 is Q:1t ��i xra CZ r7 'j So 0 - e \_,. + V . . _ �) .I