The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-16

City limits each applicant owner shall agree
that consent to operate within the limits of
the City of Pleasantville shall be separate
and Independent of any other municipality
and shall have no reference or relation there
to and that such owner applicant will ac-
count to the City monthly at the rate of 30
of his gross receipts calculated upon a basis
of not less than &c for each person carried
by him or in his auto bus within the limits
of said City whether any fare is or Is not
actually collected by the chauffeur or driver
of such bus within the limits of said City.
ID The type of motor vehicle, the horse
power, the number of the State license and
the seating capacity and the manufacturer
name and number the name,- age. residence
and business address If the applicant is a
natural person If a corporation, its name,
place of Incorporation and place of business !;
If a partnership or company the names of
each of the persons comprising the company
or firm with the business address of each.
The signature of the person making the ap-
~plieation shall be verified before a Notary
Public or some other person authorized to
administer oaths. Evidence that the appli-
cant has filed with the fiscal officer an in
demnity bond or insurance policy of a Com
pany duly authorized to transact business
under the Insurance Laws of the State of
New Jersey in the sum of Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,0 00.00) against loss from the
liability imposed under the Act entitled An
Act Concerning Automobiles commonly called
Jitneys and their Operation in Cities" ap-
proved March II, 1916, for the benefit of any
person injured by or in any such auto bus
as provided in the Act last above mentioned.
Ck) That the owner of such auto bus
constitute and appoint such fiscal officer as
his true and lawful agent for the purpose of
acknowledging service of any process of a
Court of competent jurisdiction to be served
against insured by virtue of the indemnity
granted under the insurance policy filed.
a No fare shall be collected by any
owner, chauffeur or driver of any auto bus
but the fare for every person or passenger
carried in such auto bus shall be placed by
the passenger in a device which registers
the number of fares which shall have passed
through it, and no owner, and no chauffeur,
driver or agent of such owner shall receive
any fare except through such registering de-
vice which device shall be approved by the
fiscal officer of the City and shall be pro-
cured and installed in every bus licensed by
the owner thereof.
(m) 1t shall be unlawful to carry or
transport in any such auto bus a greater
number of passengers or persons than the
manufacturers seating capacity of said auto
bus or more than one person on the front
seat excepting the chauffeur and every. per-
son carried in such bus excepting the chauf-
90 That no consent shall be given or
license granted unless the application there
for be made by the owner of such auto bus
verified as to ownership by the affidavit of
G6) No auto bus shall be operated by any
chauffeur or driver without having first OBJ
tanned a permit from the City SO to do.
Before any permit shall be issued the driver
whether the applicant be the owner or a
chauffeur or driver of such applicant must
present drivers license issued by the motor
vehicle department of the State of New
Jersey.
% The consent and license herein pro-
vided for shall begin on the LIST day OF May
of the then current year and shall terminate
on the list day of May of the next succeed
ing year and the indemnity bond or insur-
ance shall cover the period from and after
the date of the giving of any such consent
and issue of any such license until the LIST
day of May next succeeding.
(S) That no indemnity bond or policy or
insurance filed by any applicant shall be
surrendered or annulled within two years
next after the consent and license given and
issued to such applicant shall have expired
or been annulled.
90 1t shall be unlawful for any person
while operating any auto bus over and upon
the streets of the City of Pleasantville along
the designated route to refuse to carry any
person or persons offering himself Or them
selves to be carried and rendering the fare
for the same to any place on or along said
route and between the termini thereof unless
at the time such offer is made the vacant
seating capacity is insufficient for his or
their accommodation.
I1O) 1t shall be unlawful for any person
operating any auto bus within the limits OF
the City of Pleasantville to permit, cause or
allow such automobile to cross any railroad
track at any intersecting street in said City
over which railroad trains are operated I'M