The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-04-10
AN ORDINANCE
Granting Special License by the City
of Union, 8. c., for the Fiscal
Year Beginning May 1, 1914.

W OF same:
Section 1. That the following Spec
Ia! License Ordinance is hereby
adopted and Ordained by the CITY
Council on the 18th day of March,
i9l4, for the Fiscal Year, beginning
Nav 1st, 1914.
:. That every person, firm or corpora
tlon 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 1st, 1914,
first obtain license from the
Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon the
order of the Mayor, and all licenses
hereinafter mentioned, shall be nom
transferable, except by written per-
mission of the Mayor endorsed OH
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 of May, 1915. Any license
may be revoked at any time by the
Mayor or the City Council.
Sec. 2. Every itinerant, trader or
person Except licensed auctioneers)
offering for sale or attempting to sell
by sample within the City at public
outcry or otherwise, any goods.
ware, fancy articles, spectacles, Jew
elcy, pictures, notions or other arti-
cles of like character or kind shall
pay IN advance a license tax Of no,
less than Five Dollars ($5.O0) per
day: Twenty-Five Dollars (s25.OO) per
week, or Two Hundred Dollars
vertising or selling for any person,
firm or corporation of the City of Un-
ion, shall relieve the said itinerant,
trader of person from the payment of
said license.
Sec. 8. Every itinerant physician
or vendor, seller of medicine, patent
or of his own make, or practicing as
an ltinerant his profession or calling
shall pay a license tax of not less
than Ten Dollars (S10.0O) per day
or Fifty Dollars ($5O.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. a. Each dray, carriage, bugg, ;,
automobile or other power vehicle,
and each hack for public hire, con-
veyance or transportation, shall hav,
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 shal.
wear a duplicate number in a con-
spicuous place. The Clerk and Treas
urer shall issue for each such dray,
carriage, buggy, automobile or ther
power vehicle and hack and driver,
such numbers at the issuance of IL
v,1on fba h.
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
riages or automobiles or other power
vehicles. shall not exceed twenty-five
Cents (25c) from any point with
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 oth,.
power vehicles or drays, shall not ex-
ceed Twenty-Five Cents (25c) for 300
pounds; Fifty cents (50c) 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
tion of the charges as above limited
by any such public hack, carriage,
buggy. automobile, power vehicle or
dray licensee; such licensee shall upon
conviction be fined not exceeding Ten
Dollars $4,000 or imprisonment 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 any
time within the corporate limits Of
the City of Union, S. c.. by the, Mayor
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 pubic dray,
hack, carriage, buggy, automobile,
or other power vehicle, horse or mule,
harness, etc., and any such as are
found unfit for use, shall not be al
lowed to be used for such purposes
upon the streets of the said City
buggy or automobile or other 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 by
the Mayor or Chief of Police, shall
upon conviction be fined in a sum not
exceeding Ten Dollars ($10.00) or
be imprisoned with or without hard
labor not exceeding twenty (20) days,
for each offense.
Sec. z. The above sections in ref