St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-21
ORDINANCE No. 376.


In relationtion to hackmen, draymen, ex-
pressmen, and other persons engaged in
carrying passengers, baggage and freight.
The Common Council OF the City OF st. raul
do ordain as follows:
Section 1. No person OF persons shall hire, or
keep or use for hire upon the streets of the city
of st. Paul any vehicle of any description or
name whatever for the conveying of passen
gers or transportation of goods, wares and
merchandise, or other articles from place to
place within said city without license so to
do.
Sec. 9. Any person or persons residents
of said city, over the age of twenty-one years,
and being the owner or owners of any vehi-
Gle, may keep and use the same for hire up
on paying the license fee and the sum of one
dollar to the City Clerk for said license there
with and observing all the provisions of this
ordinance.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the City
Clerk to issue all licenses provided for in this
ordinance, upon being presented with re-
ceipt from the City Treasurer, showing that
the party applying for license has paid the
amount of money herein fixed as the amount
which shall entitle such party to the license
ter in which shall be kept list Of the names
of all persons to whom licenses are granted
or transferred, the date when issued or trans
ferred, the number of each license and the
description of each vehicle licensed.
Sec. 4. All licenses granted under this
ordinance shall, unless revoked, continue in
force until the first day of January, after the
date of the issue thereof, and any such license
may be transferred by the City Clerk, with
the consent of the Mayor.
Sec. 5. Every owner of any licensed We
hcle shall forthwith cause the name
of the owner and the number of
his license to be plainly fixed
in conspicuous place on the outside and
inside of such vehicle, and shall keep the
same plain and distinct at all times when
used, during the continuance of such license;
but upon the expiration of said license (un-
less renewed) such person shall Immediately
cause the said name and number to be
erased from said vehicle, and shall not allow
said vehicle to be used with said name or
number thereon.
Sec. g. Every vehicle for the conveyance
of persons Except omnibuses running upon
established lines), when driven or used for
hire, or waiting or standing for hire, on any
public street or place in the night time, shall
have fixed upon some conspicuous part of
the outside thereof, a lighted lamp with
plain glass front and sides, with the number
of the license fixed within each of said lamps,
in distinct and legible figures, at least one
and one-half inches in length, and so placed
that said mum bers and lamps may be distinct
" seen from the inside and outside of such
vehicle. And every vehicle for the convey
ancc of passengers, which has door or doors
to the same, shall have knob CT handle upon
the inside of such door or doors, by which
said door or doors may be easily opened from
the inside of such vehicle.
All omnibuses running within the city and
required TO be licensed, shall, when running
in the night time, have fixed in some con-
spicuous place in front thereof, so as to be
distinctly seen from inside and outside, a
lighted lamp, with the number of license dis
tinctlv painted thereon in figures of one inch
and half in length.
See Z. No person shall hereafter drive
any licensed vehicle for the conveyance of
passengers or for the transportation or con-
veyance of goods, wares, merchandise or
other articles for hire or reward, without first
obtaining a license as such driver, and no
such driver shall drive any other vehicle than
the one for which he shall be licensed: nor
shall the owner or owners permit any person.
except licensed driver or owner, to drive
any licensed vehicle owned or used by him
or them: nor shall any such owner permit
any licensed driver to drive any other Ii
censed vehicle than the one for which he
shall be licensed No licensed vehicle shall
have more than one driver, and every such
driver shall be licensed by the City Clerk,
on the request of the owner of any vehicle
and such license may be transferred, on
such request, and it shall be the duty of the
City Clerk to keep list of the drivers so
licensed, the number of his license, and the
number of the vehicle for which each driver
shall be licensed, and of all transfers of such
licenses. Any drivers license may be re-
voked by the Mayor in his discretion.
Sec g. All licenses granted under this or
dinance shall designate the vehicles by their
number or name, and the owner or owners,
driver or drivers, shall be severally liable tor
each and every violation of this ordinance by
such owner or owners, or their driver or
drivers.
Sec. Q. Every person SO licensed, shall.