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AN ORDINANACE REGULATING THE LICENSING AND OPERATING OF AUTOMOBILE BUSES, COMMONLY KNOWN AS JITNEY BUSSES. BF IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That the owner of every automobile. bus, or other automobile commonly known as a jitney -bus operating on the streets of Charlottesville shall conform to the following requirements and every such vehicle shall be operated in pursuance of the rules, regulations, restrictions and conditions hereinafter prescribed and set forth: 1. The owner of such vehicle or vehicles shall obtain a license for the right to operate each vehicle by making written application to the Comrissioner of Revenue for the City on a printed form to be prescribed by and furnished by the said Commissioner: by paying a license fee or tax according to the following scale: $30 for each vehicle seating from one to four passengers: $40. for each vehicle seating from five to seven passengers, and for each, vehicle with a seating; capacity above seven $3, additional for each unit of seating capacity in excess thereof: and by executing and delivering to the Mayor, to be filed with the City Auditor, a bond with surety for the sum of $2,000. satisfactory to the City Attorney, conditioned that the maker of the bond and sureties and endorsers thereof shall be liable in and for all damage to any person accepted as a passenger on suer vesicle or damage to any other person, proximately caused by the negligent operation thereof or by any known patent defect in such vehicle. The Commissioner of the Revenue shall upon approval of application, pavment of license tax, and filing of bond hereinbefore provided for, place such application with the Treasurer of the City, who shall deliver to the applicant a written license, 2. The owner of a licensed vehicle may, after having complied with the State License laws, temporarily substitute for it another vehicle of the same seating capacity, provided however that if such substitution is to continue for a period exceeding? days/ a description of such vehicle shall be filed with and approved by the Mayor, 3. Such vehicle shall be operated only by porsons over sixteen years of age, and who shall have received the written permission of the Mayor after examination or upon receipt of other satisfactory evidence of his knowledge and ability. 4. The owners and operators of vehicles contemplated by this ordinance shall be subject to and required to conform to the laws regulating street use and automobiles and such other traffic regulations as exist or may exist, except so far as they are in conflict with the provisions herein, and in addition thereto shall conform to the following regulations: The number of passengers carried in a vehicle shall not exceed its licensed capacity by more than one passenger, except in case of children for whom no charge is made, when the capacity may be exceeded by two: no passenger shall ride on. the runningboard doors or other portion of the vehicle not intended for a passanger seat: the interior of such vehicle, while in operation beteweeb one house after sunset and one hour before sunrise, shall be lighted in such manner as may be designated by the Mayor. The Mayor, Chief of Police, or any person duly authorized by one of them shall, in cases of emergency, such as fires accidents street parades, obstructions defects in street, etc., have power to divert such vehicles to such other streets of blocks than their accustomed routes as will in hie discretion best serve the public. 5. The owner of any vehicle operated, under this ordinance and the agent or a such owner violating any provision of this ordinance, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day or part of a