83 of 1902 - Ordinance 83 of 1902 – Prescribing regulations for public vehicles. OJ ✓ O R D I N A N C R . -
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An ordinance prescribing regulations for public vehicles,
fixing penalties for violations thereof, and repealing Chapter 53 of
the Revised Ordinances of 1892, and that ordinance amendatory .there-
of passed by the City Council March 30th, 1894, and approved by the
Mayor March 31st, 1894.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Take City, Utah:
SECTION I. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in
the business of hotel runner, or run, keep or use for hire, for the
carrying or conveying of persons, any public hackney coach, cab,
omnibus, express wagon, carriage, wagonette, or any public passenger
vehicle of any description or name whatsoever, using the streets of
Salt Lake City for trade or traffic, without first having obtained •
a license so to do.
SECTION II. Every person licensed under the provisions of
• Section 33 of Chapter 22 of the Revised Ordinances, shall receive a
numbered license from the City Treasurer, and it shall be unlawful
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for such person to use his vehicle unless he has caused the number
of his license to be plainly painted in figures at least one and
one-half (1 1,/2) inches in length in a conspicuous place on the out-
side of each side of the vehicle, and on the lamps thereof; or to
use said vehicle unless said figures are plain and distinct at all
times during the continuance of such license; and it shall be unlaw-
ful for such person, upon the expiration of said license, or upon
• the revocation of the same, to permit or suffer said numbers to
remain upon said vehicle.
SECTIXi III. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any
hack, cab, or other passenger vehicle upon any of the streets of
Salt Lake City unless he has complied with the provi.siops of Section
1 of this ordinance, except said person is driving a "call carriage"
from a duly licensed livery stable.
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SECTION IV. l at shall be unlawful for any ijerson to solicit
in any manner upon the streets, or in public places in this City,
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for the carrying of passengers in any passenger' vehicle, unless p
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has first complied with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION V. It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to keep
a complete and accurate list of all licenses issued by him. Copies
of said lists of licenses with the numbers thereof, shall be fur-
nished free to persons applying to the City Treasurer therefor; and
all said licenses shall be transferred only upon the books of the
City Treasurer.
SECTION VI. The following localities are hereby established
as stands for public vehicles:
1. The north side of First South, Second South and Third South
Streets between West Temple and State Streets, and the east side of
State Street between Second South and Third South Streets, shall be
public stands for duly licensed public passenger Vehicles.
2. The south side of First South, Second South and Third South
Streets between West Temple and State Streets, and the west side of
State Street between Second South and Third South Streets, shall be
public stands for duly licensed public vehicles, such as express
wagons and moving vans, other than public passenger vehicles.
3. After 10 o'clock E. M. , on any streets in the City except
immediately in front of hotels ant theatres.
SECTION VII. It shall be unlawful for any person to stand a
licensed public vehicle upon the above mentioned streets unless he
is at the time actually engaged, at a distance of less than twenty-
five (25) feet from any other licensed vehicle at the time standing
thereon.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to stand a public
licensed vehicle, except the kind of vehicle designated herein,
(unless he be actually engaged at the time), on any other parts or
sides of the streets than those designated herein.
3. It shall be unlawful for any person to stand a public
licensed vehicle in front of a hotel unless he is actually engaged
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SECTION VIII. It shall be unlawful for any person following
the employment of hackman, cabman, omnibus driver, coach driver, or
driver of any passenger vehicle, or soliciting patronage for any
such vehicle, to leave his hack, omnibus, coach or express wagon,or
other vehicle, e r q, .»...w-icy,., for a
distance of more than six (o) feet from said coach, hack., omnibus,
express wagon, or other vehicle!, except for the purpose of securing
when requested, the baggage of his passengers.
SECTION IX. It shall be unlawful for any runner, hackman, NW-
,omnibus driver, expressman, porter, cabman, or person carrying
passengers, or soliciting for passenger vehicles, to induce or
attempt to induce any person to employ him, by either knowingly or
wantonly misinforming or misleading such person as to the time or
place of the arrival or departure of any railroad train or other
conveyance, or the location of any railroad depot, office,station
or ticket office, or the location of any hotel," stage office, public
place, or private residence within said City, or to practice any
deceit, fraud or misrepresentation in any manner whatever relative
to matters pertaining to his business.
SECTION X. It shall be unlawful for any person following the
employment of runner, hackman, omnibus driver, expressman, hotel
runner, porter or driver of an#assenger vehicle, to enter into or
upon any railroad depot, or uponr any passage or landing leading XlM
thereto, while actually engaged in his employment as such; Provided
however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
the persons herein named from entering in and upon any railroad car)
depot or passage leading thereto, for the purpose of getting the
baggage of any passenger arriving at or departing from the City,
after first having obtained and exhibited to any policeman or person
in charge of such railroad car, depot, passage or landing, the check
or checks of such passenger for such baggage.
SECTION XI. It shall be unlawful for any runner, hackman,
hotel runner, omnibus driver, expressman, porter, or driver of any
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passenger vehicle, at any time or place when waiting for or engaged
in his employment, to obstruct any street or sidewalk, make any
unusual noise or disturbance, unnecessarily snap or flourish his
whip, use any indecent, profane or obscene language, or be guilty of
any boisterous or loud talking, or solicitation of passengers, or
business, or any disorderly conduct, or use any language or be guilty
of any conduct calculated to disturb the public peace or good order
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• of the city, or harass, vex, annoy or disturb any person therebeing,
or passing; or interfere with, obstruct or impede the free passage
of passengers or other persons to or from any depot, train, or depot
grounds, or seize or grasp or interfere with any baggage carried by
or belonging to said passengers or persons, unless by their request.
SECTION XII. It shall be unlawful for any carriage, hackney
coach, cab or any other passenger vehicle, to be driven through any
of the streets of Salt Lake City at a greater rate of speed than
six (6) miles an hour, nor around the corner of any of the streets
of said City at a gait that will endanger pedestrians, and all vehi-
cles, when passing through or along any of the streets of said City,
shall, when meeting other vehicles, be driven to the rirht-hand side
• of the way, so that said vehicles shall pass clear of each other.
SECTION XIII. It shall he unlawful for any person to drive a
public vehicle for the conveyance of passengersin the night time
unless he shall have fixed upon some conspicuous part of the outside
thereof two lighted lamps with plain glass sides, and have the
number of such vehicle in plain, legible figures upon each of the
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outer sides of said lamps in such manner that the same may be
distinctly seen, or to drive at any time a vehicle which shall not
have a knob or handle upon the inside of each door, by which said
doors may be easily opened from the inside thereof.
SECTION XI,T. The maximum prices or rates of fare to he asked
or demanded by any owner or driver of any vehicle for the carriage
of passengers shall be as follows:
1. For conveying every passenger from any hotel to any depot
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in the City, c- from one depot to another, fifty ($0.50) cents.
2. For conveying one passenger not exceeding one (1) mile,
fifty ($0.50) cents.
3. Each additional mile or part of mile, fifty ($0.50) cents.
4. For conveying children between five and fourteen years of
age, not to exceed half the above price may be charged for like
distances, but for children under five (5) years of age no charge
shall he made.
5. For Ilse of any hack, coach or other vehicle drawn by two
horses, by the day, with one or more passengers, eight 08.00)
dollars.
6. For the use of any such carriage or vehicle, by the hour,
with one or more passengers, with the privilege of going from place
to place and stopping as often as may be required, two ($2.00)
dollars for the first hour, and for each additional hour or part of
hour, one ($1.00) dollar.
7. For the use of any hack, cib.or other vehicle, drawn by one
horse or other animal, by the hour, for the firat hour, one
($1.00) dollar; each additional hour or part thereof, seventy-five
($0.75) cents.
8. In all cases when the hiring of a hack, coach or other
public vehicle for the conveyance of passengers is not at the time
of the hiring specified to be by the hour, it shall he deemed to be
by the mile; and for any detention exceeding fifteen (15) minutes,
when so working by the mile, the owner or driver may demand at the
rate of one ($1.00) dollar per hour.
9. Every passenger shall be allowed to have conveyed upon
such vehicle, without charge, his ordinary traveling baggage,includ-
ing a trunk not to exceed one hundred and fifty (150) pounds in
weight. For each XXXXXXh) f:X and every additional fifty (50) pounds
or less of baggage, if conveyed to any place within the city limits,
the owner of such vehicle shall be permitted to charge twenty-five
($0.25) cents.
SECTION XV. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a
licensed vehicle for the conveyance of passengers for hire, unless
there is fixed in said vehicle in such manner as can be conveniently
read by any person riding in the same, a card with the name of the
owner of such vehicle, the number of his license written or printed
thereon, and the rates of fares fixed by this chapter.
SECTION XVI. It shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of
any coach-or• cab, carriage or hack, for the conveyance of passengers,
to demand, or receive by virtue of said demand any fare in excess of
what is provided for in this chapter.
SECTION XVII. Every licensed owner or driver of any hack,
coach or other vehicle for the carriage of passengers, shall have
the right to demand the fare of the person or persons employing him,
on entering his vehicle, and may refuse to convey any person who
shall not comply with said demand.
SECTION XVIII. It shall he unlawful for the owner or driver of
any hackney coach, hack, cab, carriage or other public passenger
vehicle, when not otherwise engaged or occupied in the performance
of his duties, as a licensee under the provisions of this chapter,
to refuse to convey in this city any person, with or without baggage
when applied to for that purpose, the proper fee therefor being
tendered, or, having undertaken to convey such person, to wilfully
omit or neglect to do so.
SECTION XIX. It shall be unlawful for any owner or driver of
any hack, coach, cab or other public vehicle, for the carriage of
passengers, upon being requested to do so, to refuse to give to any
person or persons the number of his coach, carriage, hack or other
vehicle, and the name of the owner or driver thereof.
SECTION XX. It shall be unlawful for any such licensed owner
or driver to induce any person to ride in or employ his vehicle by
,falsely representing his vehicle to such person as running for or
being employed by any public house, railway or stage company, with.
a view to exact, solicitor obtain fare, or anything of value, from
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such person, for conveying him to such public house or railway, or
other place.
SECTION XXI. It shall he unlawful for any person having hired
any licensed passenger vehicle, and having ridden thereinto r"efuse
to pay the fare therefor, not exceeding the rate fixed by this
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chapter.
SECTION XXII. Any lerson violating any of the prov'iFions of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof;a',ha.11 be punished by a fine in any 6iii not exceed-
ing one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or by impr_tsonment in the City
Jail not to exeeed Ot'e hundred (100) days.
SECTION XXIII. siAll ordinances and parrs 'of ordinances in con-
flict wiih this ordipanoe, and particularly Chapter 53 of the
Revised Ordinances of 1892, and that ordinance amendatory thereof,
passed by the City Council March 30th, 1894, and approved by the
Mayor March 31st, 1894, are hereby expressly repealed.
SECTION XXIV. This ordinance shall take effect upon approval.
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