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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 9, Page 852, No Ordinance NumberAN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE LICENSING A14D REGULATING THE OPERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES USED -IN CARRYING PERSONS FOR HIRE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COIVISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. 4- Page�� 852 No motor propelled vehicle, as contemplated in this ordinance, shall be allowed to operate on the streets, avenues or thoroughfares of said city of Paducah until the owner or operator thereof has obtained the license and permit provided In this ordinance. Any person, firm, company or corporation desiring to operate a motor propelled vehicle for the purpose of carrying persons for hire within said city shall first make written application to the city treasurer stating substantially the name, residence and place of business of the person, firm or corporation so applying and furnishing therewith the age and name or names of the person or persons who will drive or operate said motor vehicles and furnish also a description of said motor vehicles so to be operated giving the make, ownership, seating capacity and State license. No such motor propelled vehicle shall be so used for carrying persons for hire until after the same has been duly licensed for such purpose by the State of Kentucky and no driver or operator of the same shall be permitted to operate or drive the same in the city of Paducah until he has procured a driver's license from the State of Kentucky which license shall at all times be available for inspection by any Police Officer of the City of Paducah and no person shall be permitted to so operate or drive such motor propelled vehicles for the carriage of persons for hire who has bei?n convicted of a felony or has twice been conficted of violations of the traffic laws and regulations in the city of Paducah and not pardoned by the Board of Commissioners. SECTION 2. Upon the violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance by the owner or operator of any motor propelled vehicle, used for carrying persons for hire,,the judgment of the Police Court may for the first violation provide for a revocation or suspension of the license or right to so operate i said motor propelled vehicle, and upon the second conviction of any such oimer or operator of such motor propelled vehicle the judgment of conviction shall be followed. by an order of said Police Court revoking and cancelling such licen.:e or permit, and Page 853 said owner or operator shall not thereafter, be permitted to use or operate any motor propelled vehicle for carrying persons fir hire within said city of Paducah. SECTION 3. All motor vehicles used for carrying persons for hire must, at all times, be properly equipped with doors which shall be closed before the vehicle is started and --be kept closed while the vehicle is in operation. No person or passenger on any such vehicle shall be allowed or permitted to ride on the steps, fenders, runninZ board or any other part of the outside of said vehicles. And it shall not be lawful to operate any such vehicle containing broken glass or cracked windshield or windows. SECTION 4. Every motor propelled vehicle used for carrying persons for hire under the provisions of this ordinance shall � ql pay an annual license tax to the City of Paducah of Seven Dollars and Fifty ($7.50) cents per seat capacity exclusive of the driver's seat which tax shall be payable on or before the first day of each year and upon failure to pay such license tax within thirty days, after the same becomes due, there shall be added thereto a penalty of ten per cent (10%) and the owner or operator of such vehicle shall be subject to the further penalties provided in `Yiis ordinance. Provided, however, that for the year 1934 the penalty for failure to pay said license tax shall not go into effect or be enforcible until the first day of March 1934. Upon the payment of such license fee there shall be issued by the Treasurer of the City of Paducah a receipt erhich shall be continuously preserved and held available for exhibition to any police officer of the city upon request. SEC^1ION 5. This ordinance shall apply toa_ll ovmers, operators or �I drivers of motor propelled vehicles, used for carrying persons for hire, who shall colicit patronage on the public streets or i other points where persons may be congregated or assembled; but shall not apply to vehicles used for the purpose of carrying persons for hire which operate u)on fixed schedules as to routes I and times for trips on streets designated by them and indicated in every instance by the written or printed sign exhibited on the front end of each of said cars so used on said schedules. And vehicles used on such schedules shall not be permitted to operate off of said schedules except by the payment of license Page 854 fees as provided in the foregoing section. All vehicles, as provided in the foregoing section, which operate upon fixed schedules as to time and routes with cars or vehicles labeled as herein provided shall pay a license tax of Five Dollars ($5.00) per seat capacity for all such vehicles exclusive of driverTs seat. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to motor propelled vehicles which do not cruise and whose owners, operators or drivers do not solicit patronage while on public streets. SECTION 6. Any person, firm, company or corporation violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine to be assessed in the Police Court of not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) nor more than One Hundred.Dollars ($100.00) or confinement in the City Jail not less than one nor more than thirty days or both such fines and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court or Jury trying the case, and such persons to convicted shall also be subject to the other penalties prescribed in this ordinance. SECTION 7. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. i Signed / Mayor Passed by the Board of Commissioners February 19th,1934. Recorded by Rudy Stewart, Clerk -X, `a-- 1934.