The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-04-14
AN ORDINANCE
Granting Special License by
the City of Union, S. c.,
for the Fiscal Year Be-
ginning May l, 1916.

Section /. That the following Spec
ial License Ordinance is hereby
adopted and Ordained by the City
Council on the 9th day of March, 1916,
for the Fiscal Year, beginning May
lst, 1916.
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 1st,
1916, first obtain license from the
Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon
the order of the Mayor, and all Ii
censeS hereinafter mentioned, shall be
non-transferable, except by written
permission of the City Council, en-
dorsed on said license, and per an
mum, if not otherwise specifically pro-
vided, and all annual licenses shall
expire on the lst day OF May, 1915.
Any license may be revoked at any
time by the Mayor or the City Coun-
Gil.
Sec. ,. 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,
wares, fancy articles, spectacles, jew
elry, pictures, notions or other ar
tcles of like character or kind, shall
pay in advance license tax of no.
less than Five Dollars ($5.0O) per
day; twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per
week, or Two Hundred Dollars
($200.00) per year, and no plea of ad-
vertising or selling for any person,
firm or corporation of the City of Un-
ion, shall relieve the said itinerant
trader or person from the payment of
said license.
Sec. 3. Every itinerant physician
or vendor, seller of medicine, patent
or of his own make, or practicing as
an itinerant his profession or calling
shall pay a license tax of not less
than Ten Dollars $4,000 per day
or Fifty Dollars ($50.00) 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, buggy,
automobile or other power vehicle,
and each hack for public hire, con-
veyance or transportation, shall have
number thereon and the driver Of
such vehicle shall keep that number
exposed on such hack, dray, carriage,
-bS-Tr. -5xtoaohile or other power We
hicle and every driver thereof shall
wear a duplicate number in a cons
spicuous 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 IL
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
riages, buggies, automobiles or other
vehicles, shall not exceed Twenty
five cents (25c) from any point with
in the corporate limits of said City
to said passengers destination; pro,
vided 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 800
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
ton of the charges as above limited
by any such public hack, carriage,
buggy, automobile, power vehicle or
dray license; such licensee shall
upon conviction be fined not ex-
ceeding Ten Dollars $4,000 or i'm
prlSonment not exceeding twenty
(2OO days with or without hard la
bor
Sec. 8. Any driver or owner of any
such hack or carriage or buggy or
automobile or other power vehicle for
hire as aforesaid, including Livery,
Feed and Sales Stables, who shall
run any such hacks, carriages, bug
gies, automobiles or other power We
hicles, who shall leave his, or her OF
their hack, or carriage or buggy or
automobile or other power vehicle be-
fore mentioned, for a distance greater
than ten (1O feet in solicitation of
any passenger or otherwise at anv
depot within the City of Union, or
who shall leave his, her or their hack,
buggy, carriage, automobile or other
power vehicle Standinp unattended
within one block of any depot or upon
Main street from the court house to
the Baptist church shall pay fine
of Five Dollars ($5.0O) or be impris-
oned for period of ten (1O) days
with or without hard labor, in the
discretion of the Citv Council