HomeMy WebLinkAbout01306ORDI LUME 110. /0 964
AN ORDIN-AlICE relating to and providing for the
licensing of curtain motor and other
vehicles; defining offenses; provid.ing
regulations Tor the same; providing
penalties; providing for the suspoinsion
and revocation of ordinances and repeal-
ing ordinance 110.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY UI' PORT '1'0'+NSEI;D DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: That every person, firm or corporation who shall
keep any motor vehicle for the transportation of passengers for hire or
for the transportation of merchandise 'from place to place over and upon
the public streets of the City of Dort Townsend shall pay an annual
license fee from the first day of�of each and every year: as herein-
after designated.
Section 2: I,Iotor vehicles contemplated to be licensed hereunder
are hereby classified as follows:
For Hire Car: Shall mean any automobile, taxicab, or other
motor vehicle operated for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire
which is located at and rented Trom a fixed and designated stand in the
city, where the time, route and destination of trips are indicated and
controlled by the passengers. This classification. shall include all
motor vehicles operated from any point within the cit; to other points
within or without the city, or from points outside of the city to points
within the city.
Jitney Bus: Shall mean all motor vehicles carrying
passengers for hire within the limits of the city over a prescribed route
and according to a schedule.
Auto Stage. Shall mean motor vehicles carrying passengers
or freight for hire, operating on a fixed route and schedule between
fired points within the city, or from a terminal or point in the city to
points outside the city, or from points or terminals outside the city to
points within the city or operating from points outside the city through
the city in the event passengers are picked up within the city.
Motorcycle: Shall mean motor vehicle of trio or three
wheels, intended to carry one or tuo persons and operated on the streets
of the city for the transportation and delivery of small parcels.
Transfer Truck: Shall mean any motor true]:. or dray used for
the generul transfer of freight or ierchandise fc,r hire, and subject to
hire by any person.
Commercial trucks; Shall mean any motor truck designed for and
used for the transportation of merchandise and freight over and upon the
,.ublic streets of the City of :Fort Townsend, other than those designated
as transfer trucks.
Commercial true=_s: Shall also mean and include trucks carrying
tools, supplies and equipment about the city eon::,;only ]mown] as "service
trucks," and trucks equipped to raise, move and tow disabled gtotor vehicles
said. trucks being commonly ]-novin as "vireckers."