The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-27
Keokuk Jitney Bus Ordinance

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| sengers; Seventy.f1ve ($75. 0O) Dollars
for each vehicle with a seating capa-
city Of more than eight passengers
and not exceeding twelve passengers;
| and One Hundred and Fifty (s150.O0)
! Dollars for each vehicle with seat.
! ing capacity of more than twelve pas.
sengers; and whenever the holder Of
such license may add or substitute
cars Or other routes, supplemental
license shall be obtained therefor in
the same manner as the application
Is made for the original license.
SECTION SIX:
Every owner or operator of jitney
car or cars shall maintain regular
service over his entire route between
the terminf thereof, between the hours
Of seven O'Clock a. M, and ten o'clock
p. m. OF each and every day.
SECTION SEVEN:
1t shall be unlawful for any owner,
driver or person in charge Of any jit-
ney car to cause such vehicle to be
operated on any other route or in any
other place than on it's announced
and scheduled route for the purpose
OF carrying passengers for hire or to
fail or refuse to run or operate duly
licensed vehicle over the announced
Or scheduled route IN the announced
Or scheduled time for leaving or arriv-
ing at the termini thereof.
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Every jitney vehicle shall have dis
played thereon in conspicuous man
ner: % The name Of the party own
ing or operating same; (2) It's city
license number; (3) its general route
and the termini thereof,
SECTION NINE:
Every operator Of a jitney vehicle
shall, in addition to the lights now
required by law, keep the interior Of
the body OF such vehicle while the
same Is being operated between sun
set and sunrise. we'll lighted and illum-
mated.
SECTION TEN:
It shall be unlawful to operate any
jitney or motor bus while any person
is standing or sitting on the running
board, fender, step or door thereof, or
while any person is riding or the same
outside of the body thereof and it
shall be unlawful for any person to
stand or sit upon any running board
or door Of any such motor vehicle or
to occupy any portion thereon outside
Of the body Of same while said motor
bus is in motion.
SECTION ELEVEN:
All motor buses shall make their
stops to discharge and take on pas
sengers on the near side of street in
tersections. leaving cross-wa1ks open,
and shall pull up to the curb to mako
all such stops; and such vehicles shall
while in motion; nor shall such We
sary to take on and discharge passen-
gers.
$50 sECTIoNsTWELvE:
It shall be unlawful for anyone oper-
ating a motor bus:
(a) To refuse to- carry free child
seven years old or. under when &C
companied by paying passenger.
(b) To charge more than five (5c)
cents for passage Tor sone passenger
for ona continuous ride from one ter
minal station to another within the
city limits. ~ s
ic) To refuse to carry any person
who properly applies for transporta.
ton unlesstsnch motor bus be loaded
to capacity or for good cause shown.
(d) To permit or cause said motor
bus to be driven by any person under
81 years Of age.
SECTION THIRTEEN:
Specific enumeration Of regulations
herein shallzin no manner relieve sucn
vehicles carrying passengers herein
mentioned. from the general regula'
Itions of vehicles. as the same are now
Or NAV hereafter be provided, In other
ordinances regulating the same. and.
| otherwise than herein provided, all
such passenger carrying vehicles shall
ba subject to the same regulations
and restrictions as are by various or
dinances provided, relative to vehicles
in general.
SECTION FOURTEEN:
Any nerson who shall violate any
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p,,i,tv of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished
nv a fin, Of not exceeding One Hun
dred (s1Oo.0o) Dollars or by imprison-
ment in the city jail not exceeding
thirty 800 days.
The City Council may upon the v1o-
lation Of any Of the provisions OF this
! ordinance cancel the license OF the
person 40 violating same and there
after ali rights under said license
| shall cease, and the licensee shall not
he entitled to the return of any part
Of any license fee Heretofore paid.
SECTION FIFTEEN:
All ordinances or parts OF same
| contrary to the provisions hereof and
Inconsistent Herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
SECTION SIXTEEN:
This ordinance shall take erect
from and after its adoption and puo'
lication az required by law.