The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-04-04
AN ORDINANCE
Granting Special License by the City
of Union, S. c., for the Fiscal
Year Beginning May 1, 1913.

Be it Ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Union, S. c.,
in Council assembled and by authori-
ty of same:
Section l. That the following Spec
ial License Ordinance is hereby
adopted and Ordained by the City
Council on the 11th day of March,
1913, for the Fiscal Year, beginning
May 1st, 1913.
That every person, firm or corpora
tion engaged in or engaging in any
trade, business or profession herein
after mentioned within the limits of
the City of Union, S. c., shall upon
engaging in said trade, business or
profession on or before May lst, 1913,
first obtain license from the
Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon the
order of the Mayor, and all licenses
hereinafter mentioned, shall be non
transferable, except by written per-
mission of the Mayor endorsed on
said license, and per annum, if not
otherwise specifically provided, and
all said license, and per annum, and
all annual licenses shall expire on the
1st day o. May, 1914. Any license
may be revoked at any time by the
Mavor or the City Council.
Sec. 2. Every itenerant, trader or
person Except licensed auctioueers)
offering for sale or attempting to sell
by sample within the City at public
out-cry or otherwise, any goods,
wares, fancy articles, spectacles, jew
elry, pictures, notions or other arti-
cles of like character or kind, shall
pay in advance license tax of not
less than Five Dollars $500 per
<ln nj
week, or Two Hundred Dollars
(S20o:oO) per year, and no plea of ad
vertiSing or selling for any person
firm or corporation of the City of I'm
ion, shall relieve the said itinerant,
trader or person from the payment of
said license.
Sec 3. Every itenerant physician
or vendor seller of medicine, pat
ent or of his own make, or practicing
as an itenerant his profession or cali
ing shall pay license tax of not
less than Ten Dollars $1,000 per dav
or Fifty Dollars (S50.00) per week,
and no plea of advertising or selling
for any person, firm or corporation of
the City of Union, shall relieve said
physician, vendor or seller from the
payment of said license.
Sec. 4. Each dray, carriage, buggy.
automobile or other power vehicle
and each hack for public hire, con-
veyance or transportation, shall have
a number thereon, and the driver of
such vehicle shall keep that number
exposed on such hack, dray, carriage
buggy, automobile or other power We
hicle, and every driver thereof shall
wear duplicate number in con-
spicious place. The Clerk and Treas
urer shall issue for each such dray,
carriage, buggy, automobile or other
power vehicle and hack and driver,
such numbers at the issuance of Ii
cense and place the number on the
said license.
Sec. 5. The Maximum fee to be
charged for each passenger within
the corporate limits of the City of
Union by such hacks, buggies, car
rlages or automobiles or other power
vehicles, shall not exceed Twenty-Five
Cents (25c) from any point within
the corporate limits of said City to
said passengers destination; provid-
ed no fee shall be charged for any
passenger under five (5) years of
age.
The maximum fee to be charged
for carrying baggage by hacks, car
riages, buggies, automobiles or other
power vehicles or drays, shall not ex
ceed twenty-five Cents (25c) for 300
pounds; Fifty cents (5Oc) for 3O1 to
1000 pounds, from any point within
the City of Union to any destination
within the corporate limits of the
City of Union; and upon any viola
tlon of the charges as above limited
by any such public hack, carriage,
buggy. automobile, power vehicle or
dray licensee; such licensee shall up
on conviction be fined not exceeding
Ten Dollars ($10.00) or imprison-
ment not exceeding twenty COY days
with or without hard labor.
Sec. 6. All public drays, hacks,
carriages, automobiles or other power
vehicles or buggies, horses or mules,
or harness, etc, shall be subject to
inspection anywhere and at anv
time within the corporate limits Of
the City of Union, S. c., by the Nav
or or Chief of Police of said CITY: or
any police officer at the instruction
of the Mayor or Chief of Police of
said City, shall inspect any such pub
llc dray, hack, carriage, buggy,
automobile or other power vehicle,
morse or mule harness, etc, and any
such as are found unfit for use, shall
not be allowed to be used for such
purposes upon the streets of the said
City. Each dray or hack or car
rage or buggy or automobile or 9TH
er power vehicle licensee as aforesaid.
who shall work or allow to be worked
or use or allow to be used, any horse
or mule, harness, dray, carriage bug
gy or other vehicle or vehicles after
the same has been declared unfit bv
the Mayor or Chief of Police, shall
upon conviction be fined in a sum not
exceeding Ten Dollars ($1O.OO) or
be imprisoned with or without hard
labor not exceeding twenty (2O) days,
for each offense.
Sec. 7. The above sections in ref
erence to inspection and charges shall
apply to the owners OR mananars nf