The Pleasantville press., 1926-04-20
uINWoOD ORDINANCE.

AN ORDINANCE to provide for the
Licensing and Regulating of Motor
Buses to operate and transport
passengers for hire within the Bor-
ough of Linwood.
Be it Ordained by the Borough of
Linwood:
Section l. That for the purposes
of this Ordinance, the term Motor
bus" shall mean and include any mo-
tor vehicle having a seating capacity
for more than seven persons and re-
ceiving for transportation or dischar-
ging passengers for hire within the
corporate limits of the Borough of
Linwood.
Section 2. That it shall be unlaw-
full for any person or corporation
operating any motor bus within the
corporate limits of the Borough of
Linwood to receive for tranSporta-
ton any passengers for hire within
such corporate limits without first
obtaining license therefor.
Section 8. Any person or corpora
ton desiring to obtain a license or
franchise to operate motor bus or
motor buses within such Borough,
shall make application to the Bor-
ough Council in writing, specifying:
IA The name and address of the
applicant, ,.,,
said Borough to be traversed.
&c" The point or points to be
known as the terrnini of such route;
cone of such termini shall be outside
| the limits of the said Borough.
ID, The minimum seating capac-
ity of motor buses.
"e." The rate of fare to be exact
ed for passage between the bounda-
ries of the Borough of Linwood and
the communities adjacent thereto,
lui,,ey l,nOn tbp nl.nnOSp1 rOIta
Section 4. All motor buses shall
meet and satisfy the requirements of
the Board of Public Utility ,CommiS-
sioners of the State of New Jersey.
Section 5. All applications for the
right to operate any motor bus shall
be received at one regular meeting
of the Borough Council and acted
meeting-which action shall be by
resolution granting or denying such
application and evidenced by writ
ten permit or licensed, signed by the
Presiding Officer and attested by the
Borough Clerk issued after the pay
ment of the fees hereinafter provided
for, and specifying the route of ope-
ration
Section 6. Such resolution and Ii
cense may provide for any term OF
years of operation in the discretion
of the Borough Council not exceeding
twenty-five, upon the payment annu-
ally of the fees hereinafter fixed. j.
Section 7. No fare exceeding five
cents shall be exacted from any per-
son for transportation wholly within
the Borough of Linwood.
Section 8. An annual license OF
franchise fee of fifteen dollars shall
be charged each licensee. which shall
enttle licensee to operate over the
proposed route any number of motor
buses. not exceeding five; and for
each additional motor bus the sum of
five dollars shall be added to such
license fee. Any license granted in
pursuance of this Ordinance shall be
void unless actual operation of a
motor bus shall begin within ninety
days after such license issues. Pro-
vided however that in case any Ii
censee to whom license may be
granted, in accordance with the
terms of this Ordinance. shall at any
time suspend operation of motor bus
es as provided by the schedule set
forth by such license. for the period
of thirty days then in such case at
the option of the governing body of
the said Borough of Linwood. such
license may become null and void.
Section 9. SO long as the person
or corporation first receiving Ii
cense, as herein provided for, shall
then during the term fixed by reso-
luton as it's period of franchise. No
other license shall be issued for mo-
tor buses within said Borough pro-
vided, however, that in case the Bor-
ough should determine that motor
buses should be operated upon any
other highway than those where such
licensee shall have the exclusive
privilege of operating it's motor buses
upon such highways, provided it be-
gins the operation thereof within
thirty days after certified copy of
a resolutions of such determination
shall be served upon the licensee.
Section 10. Any person violating
the provisions of Section of this
Ordinance shall, upon conviction, pay
a penalty to the said Borough in the
sum of Two Hundred Dollars or be
imprisoned for a period not exceed
ing ninety days for each offenSe; any
person violating the provisions of
Section of this Ordinance shall. up
on conviction pay a penalty of Fifty
Dollars, or be imprisoned for, a peri
cd not exceeding ten days for each
offense.
Section II. All Ordinances or
parts thereof inconsistent with this
Ordinance are hereby repealed and
this Ordinance shall take effect i'm
mediately.
Notice is hereby given by the Com
mon Council of the Borough of Lin
wood, N. j., that the foregoing ordi-
nance was introduced and passed
first reading at regular meeting
held on the 10th day of April, 1926,
and will be further considered by
said Common Council at a regular
meeting to be held in the Council
Chambers, Borough Hall, Linwood,
on the 3rd day of May, 1926. at o.
clock in the evening daylight saving
time.
JAMES PARISH,
Borough Clerk.
Dated April 10, 1926.