Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-02
DE IT RESOLVED, BY THE COMMON
ID Council of the City of Los Angeles as fol.

DE IT RESOLVED, BY THE COMMON
ID Council of the City of Los Angeles as fol-
lows:
SECTION /. Every vehicle, except railroad
cars, which shall be used in this city for the
conveyance of persons by land from place to
place, for hire, shall be deemed q hackney
carriage within the meaning of this resoiu-
ton.
SEC. J. Every vehicle which shall be used
for the conveyance of goods. packages
freight from place to place in this city for hire
except hand-carts and except also the vehi-
cles used by merchants dealers and manu-
facturers exclusively for the delivery of their
wares to customers) shall be deemed job
wagon within the meaning of this resolution.
SEC. 3. Every vehicle which shall be used
for the conveyance of wood, vegetables, farm
produce or oIher merchandise intended for
sale, shall be deemed a market wagon within
the meaning of this resolution.
SEC. 4. The streets surrounding the public
Plaza East of Main street and North of the
Pico House, is hereby designated as public
stand for the use OF hackney carriages Job
wagons and market wagons; provided that
SAID public stand shall only extend from the
outer edge of the fence surrounding said Plaza
thirty feet outward; and provided further that
nothing in this resolution shall prevent the
Common Council of the city of Los Angeles
from establishing at any future time by reso-
luton other public stands within the mean
ing ofthis resolution
SEC. B. In addition to the public stand or
stands, the following places are hereby desig-
mated as lawful stands for hackney carriages
in this city, to-wit: In front of Temple Block,
ut the junction of Main and Spring streets, in
front of each banking house and in front of
each hotel in this city; provided that not
more than two hackney carriages shall be
permitted to stand at the main entrance front
age of any hotel or banking house at the same
time, the carriages to be designated by the
party or parties having charge and manage
ment of such hotel or banking house; and
provided further that ii shall be lawful for the
regular passenger coach OF such hotel to stand
In font thereof at any and all times.
SECS No person having charge of any
hackney carriage, ,Job-wagon or rmarket-wagon
shall allow the same to stand within ten feet
OF any crossing, nor at n grea er distance than
TWO feet from the outer edge of any sidewalk.
SEC. T. No person having the charge or con-
troll OF any hackney carriage, job-wagon or
market-wagon shall occupy as a stand for the
same any portion Of any street in front of any
building or vacant l0t,when the width of such
street Is less than nifty feet or when the owner
OF such building or vacant lot, or occupier of
the street floor of such building shall object;
provided that nothing in this resolution shall
prevent any owner or driver OF any hackney
carriage from stopping at any place other than
q public crossing for the purpose of taking up
or putting down O passenger or passengers
(and baggage) in whose service such hackney
carriage may ut the time be actually en-
ployed; and provided further, nothing in this
resolution shall prevent the owner or driver
OF any job-wagon or market-wagon from stop
ping at any place (other than q public cross
ing of any public street from one sidewalk to
another) for the purpose of receiving or deliv-
ering any goods, wares or merchandise.
.NFt-Cs
riages attend at any place for or with passen-
gers, the Chief of Police or any regular police
man or special policeman may give directions
respecting the standing of such carriages
while waiting for rtaking up or putting down
passengers, and every driver of such carriage
shall conform TO and comply with such direc-
tions
SEC.9. Any person violating or refusing or
neglecting to comply with the provisions of
THIS resolution, or any part thereof, shall be.
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in sum not
less than five dollars nor more than thirty
dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail
for any time not less than two days nor more
than (l0) ten days, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment.
SEC. 10. The Clerk of the Common Council
shall certify to the passage of this resolution
and cause the same to be published once in
English in The Los Angeles DAILY HERALD
and once in Spanish in La Cronica, and there
upon and thereafter ii shall take effect and be
in force, and all ordinances, resolutions, rules
and regulations, or parts of the same, insofar
as they may be Inconsistent with this resolu-
ton, shall be and the same are, hereby re-
pealed.
hereby certify that the foregoing resolution
was adopted by the Common Council of the
city of Los Angeles at its session of February
70, 1915. tHs tstia gatE{ NJ. KREMER,
Clerk of Com. COuncil.