Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-11-22
ORDINANCE.

An ordinance providing for the
regulation of hacks, drays and job
wagons, and to prohibit the standing
of said vehicles on any part of Spring,
Main and intersecting streets
for a period exceeding ten min
utes before the arrival and after
the departure of passenger trains,
within certain specified hours of the
day, and to prohibit said vehicles
from making rounds or trips on said
streets when they are not going for
or taking passengers to or from any
points of destination; to regulate the
prices to be charged for carrying
passengers to or from any part of the
city; and compel the owners of said
hacks to have same we'll lighted with
proper hack lamps; and to have the
proper number of the hack on each
lamp; and to further prohibit the
owner or driver of said hacks from
stopping in front of any residence
other than that of the destination of
the passenger or occupant of said
hack; and requiring a schedule of
prices to be posted in conspicuous
place in said hacks.
Be it ordained by the city council
of the City of Palestine, Texas:
Section 1. That it shall hereafter
be unlawful for any owner or person
in charge of any hack, dray or job
wagon to permit the same to stand at
any one time for a period exceeding
ten minutes before the arrival and
after the departure of any passen-
ger train, on any part of Spring,
Main and intersecting streets
between the hours of six
O'Clock a. m. and six o'clock p. m;
provided, that this section shall not
apply to owners, drivers and persons
in charge of drays, hacks and job
wagons while sanding such vehicles
for the purpose Of loading and un-
ieadisas sssspsIe pr passengers. -
Section 2. That it shall hereafter
be unlawful for any owner or person
in charge of any hack, dray or job
wagon to make round trips over and
across said streets when they are
not going for or taking passengers to
any destination, that is to say, driv-
ing idly about on such streets.
Section 8. That it shall hereafter
be lawful for any owner or person
in charge of any hack, dray or job
wagon to stand on any of the streets
of the city of Palestine between the
hours of six o'clock p. m. and six
o'clock a. m; provided, that no two
vehicles shall stand closer than one
hundred feet of each other.
Section 4. That it shall hereafter
be unlawful for any owner OF person
in charge of any street hack to charge
more than the following prices, to-
wit: rs cents for each person over
Twelve years of age to or from any
part of the city for a distance of
twelve blocks by the most direct
route; so cents for each person over
twelve years of age to and from any
point within the city limits exceed
ing twelve blocks; one dollar for the
first hour, and so cents for each ad-
ditional hour per load for people who
are calling or driving; two dollars
and fifty cents per load for each
funeral service.
Section 5. 1t shall hereafter be
the duty of each owner OF driver of
any street hack to have above SEIZED
ule of prices posted in a conspicuous
place in such hack, and 10 have such
hack well lighted with proper hack
lamps. and to have the proper num-
Der of the hack on each lamp.
Section 6. 1t shall hereafter be |
unlawful for the owner or driver of
any Of said hacks to stop same in
front of any residence other than |
that of the destination of the passen-
ger or occupant of said hack
Section Z. Any person who shall |
violate any of the provisions of the
sectiGns OF this ordinance |
shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty |
Of a misdemeanor and fined in any
sum not less than five dollars nor
more than twenty-five dollars.
Section 8. That all ordinances In
conflict herewith be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Attest: A. L. Bowers. Mayor.
S. p Allen, Secretary. 11-19-1Ot