The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-03-19
TO REGULATE STREET CARS
New Law to Go Into Effect the First
of April.
THE WHITE AND COLORED SEPARATED
Full Text Of Law Passed by Last Legls,
lature About Street Gar PasSen.
gers. Conductors Given
Power of Police.

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Following is the act ratified
March 8. 1907, regulating street
stars, and providing for the sep
aration of the races and giving
police powers to conductors:
The Jim crow" car law as
ratified on March 8 is as follows.
Section l. That all street,
interurban and suburban railway
companies, engaged as common
carriers, in the transportation of
passengers for hire, in the state
of North Carolina, shall provide
and set apart so much of the
front portion of each car operated
by them as shall be necessary
for occupation by the white pas
sengers therein, and shall like
wise provide and set apart so
much of the rear part of said car
as shall be necessary for occupa-
tion by the colored passengers
therein, and shall require as far
as practicable the white and COL
ored passengers to each occupy
the respective part of such car
so set apart for them, as speci-
fled in section two of this act.
"Sec. 2. That any white person
entering a street car for the pur-
pose of becoming a passenger
thereon, shall, if necessary to
carry out the purposes of this
act, occupy the first vacant vacant
seat or unoccupied space in the
aisle nearest the front of said car
and any colored person entering
said car for a like purpose shall
occupy the first vacant seat or
unoccupied space in the aisle
nearest the rear end of said car.
Provided, however, no contigu-
Gus seats on the same bench shall
be occupied by white and colored
passengers at the same time
(unless or until all of the other
seats in said car shall be occu-
pied).
Sec. 3. That it shall be un-
lawful for any passenger to ex-
porate upon the floor or any other
part of any street car, or to use
while thereon any loud, profane
or indecent language, or to make
any insulting or disparaging re-
mark to or about any other pas
senger or person thereon, within
his or her hearing; and it shall
likewise be unlawful for any
passenger to wilfully stand upon
the front platform, fender, bum.
per, running board or steps Of
such car while the same is in
motion, whether such passenger
has or has not paid the usualfare
for riding on such car.
Sec. 4. That any passenger
who shall ride upon the rear plat.
form Of any street car in motion,
when there is room for such pas
senger to either sit or stand in.
side the car, shall be deemed tc
have assumed all the risks Of be-
ing injured while 50 riding. al
the result Of any act of the stree
car company: Provided, sale
company shall make it appear
that such passenger would no
have been injured had he beer
on the inside of sale car. Pro
vided further, that before an,
any street, interurban or sur
burban railway shall be allowet
TO invoke the provision Of thil
section, IL shall have copies o.
this act printed and framed anC
one copy hung in each end of al
cars operated on its lines, anc
shall further have a placard huns
in a conspicuous place on the real
of such cars which shall read a,
follows. Passengers are warn