Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-07
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City
Council Of the City of Augusta as
That Chapter eleven of the Re
vised Ordinances is hereby amended
by striking out the whole of said
chapter and substituting therefor the
following:
CHAPTER NJ
Public Carriages
Section l: Any vehicle used for the
carriage of passengers generally for
hire from place to place in the City
Of Augusta shall be deemed a pub
Section 2. The City Council may
at any time grant a license to drive
| and operate public carriage in Au-
Gusta to any person whom they. with
due regard to public policy. health
and safety. consider competent and
otherwise suitable.
section 3. Each person so licensed
shall pay to the City Clerk as license
fee. the sum of five dollars for the
use Of the city. said amount to be
| such license shall expire at midnight
of the thirty-first day of December
next following the date Of issue. I'M
less sooner revoked, and shall not be
transferable.
Section 4. Any person so licensed
may obtain temporary permit for
each competent and suitable person
operating public carriage in his en-
pioy or under his direction: but be-
fore said person for whom said per-
| carriages he shall secure the writ
ten approval of the City Marshal and
| a member of the Traffic Committee,
file with the City Clerk his appica-
hereof and pay to the City Clerk for
the use of the City the sum of five
! dollars, as permit fee. Said tenn
porarX permit shall expire whenever
upon the application for license filed
as above provided In event license
is granted. no further fee shall be
| required.
Section 5. The City Council may
| revoke or suspend the license or
permit of any driver convicted of any
violation of this ordinance. or for
| excessive use of Intoxicating LIQUOR,
| for using abusive or profane lam
| Euage in the presence of a passenger,
carriage or automobile in an unsafe,
unclean or unsanitary condition, or
| for other conduct injurious to public
policy. health or safety. The City
| Marshal for like cause may suspend
any license or permit until reinstated
by the City Council.
Section 6. Whoever, without said
license or permit. or during sus-
pension; or after revocation Of the
same. drives or operates or aids in
driving or operating a public car
riage in Augusta. shall be fined for
each offense twenty Dollars to the
use Of the City.
Section Z. Any driver Of a public
carriage who stops or stands his car
riage so that the same or the horse
used herewith unnecessarily or un-
reasonably obstructs any street,
sidewalk or public way or other pub
in ot& 81,
for each offense not less than five
nor more than twenty dollars to the
use of the City.
Section '! 8. Upon the granting of
sections three and four hereof the
City Clerk shall sign and deliver to
the applicant a card stating his
name. the number of his license or
permit and the authorized fares as
provided in this chapter. Every pub
lie carriage when in use as such
shall have in some conspicuous place
said card SO placed that the same
may be. seen by any passenger there
in, and if any person shall drive
displayed as aforesaid he shall be
fined for each offense five dollars to
the use of the City.
Section Q. Fares are authorized
for each passenger as follows: From
100 A. NJ. to- $50 p. NJ. first zone.
thirty-five cents; second zone, fifty
100 a. NJ. first zone ne fifty nty e Cents:
second zone. seventy-five cents.
Said first zone shall extend from
any point on Water or Commercial
Streets or City, Hall. to and including.
the following limits: Jefferson Street.
entire length: Mt. Vernon Avenue to
brickyard; Bridge Street from State
Street to Chestnut Street: Chestnut
Street. entire length: Sewall Street
from Western IN FOL
Street: Capitol Street from Sewall
Street to Gage street: Gage Street,
entire length; Eastern Avenue from
Arsenal Street to Stone Street: Stone
Pearl Street from Cony Street to
Ouimby Street: Quimby Street west
of Pearl Street: Bangor Street to
North Belfast Avenue: Linden Street.
noe Paper Mill.
Said second zone shall extend from
any point on Water or Commercial
Street or City Hall, beyond first zone
limits to and including the following
limits; State Street at corner of
a point opposite residence of w. II.
Gannett: Sewall Street at corner of
Glenwood Street; Winthrop Street at
corner of Blaine Avenue: Mount YER
de en of At pSet onp0I Norh heS
Avenue at corner of Townsend road:
Bangor road at corner of Clark
Street; Belfast Avenue at point OPP
posite the Brickyard: School and,
Cony Streets at Junction Of School
and Belfast Streets: Hospital Street
at corner of Thomaston Road: Ar
senal Street at Insane Hospital
In all cases. children under five
years with passenger free.
All drives, in deep snow. double the
amounts above provided. Trunks.
fifty cents.
Section 10. If any driver shall de-
mand and receive any greater sum
than as provided in the preceding
section he shall be fined not less than
five nor more than twenty dollars to
the use of the city.
Section II. Drivers shall remain
in. or near. their public carriages
while the. same are standing on Wa
ter Street.
Section 12 The City Marshal shall
dinance are enforced.
City Of Augusta
In Board of Aldermen
April 80, 1923
The foregoing ordinances. having
had two several readings, were
passed to be ordained.
Attest: ERNEST L. MCLEAN
Mayor.
City Of Augusta
In Common Council
April 80. 1928.
had two several readings. were
President Of Common Council
Approved May 4. 1923
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