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Any Person, firm or corporation, conducting a business,
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<br />occupation or Profession for the conduct of which a license tax
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<br />is required under this ordinance, without first obtaining such
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<br />license, if no specific fine is imposed for such violation, shall be
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<br />fined not less than $2.50 nor more than $10 for each day he is
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<br />in default. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Revenue
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<br />and Treasurer to report in writing to the Mayor every case of
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<br />default as soon as it comes to his knowledge and the Commis-
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<br />sioner of Revenue shall report to the Finance Committee
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<br />the name, location and business of every person in default; and
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<br />if there be no default he shall so report. And it shall be the duty,
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<br />of the Mayor, immediately upon recript of such report, to detail
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<br />a policeman, and cause such delinquent to be summoned before
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<br />the Police Justice to show cause why they should not he fined
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<br />under provisions of this ordinance. But the special detail of a
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<br />policeman shall not relieve the general force from the general
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<br />duty of enforcing this or any other ordinance, and the Mayor
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<br />shall especially see that all the requirements of this ordinance
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<br />are enforced, and to this end he shall, at least once a month,
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<br />especially require the police force to investigate violations of
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<br />this ordinonce.
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<br />131. The Commissioner of the Revenue shall receive for each
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<br />license issued by him a fee of seventy-five cents, to be paid by
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<br />the party to whom said license is issued.
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<br />132. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the Revenue
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<br />to keep a book, in which he shall classify all the branches of
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<br />business and occupation upon which a license is imposed by this
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<br />ordinance, and show the amount of assessment made upon each
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<br />license, the name of the, person assessed, and the period for
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<br />which such license was issued.
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<br />On the first day of December, March, June and September
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<br />of each year he shall deliver to the Finance Committee extracts
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<br />from said book showing the entries therein made and the total
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<br />amount of licenses collected during -the preceding three months.
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<br />properly classified. These extracts shall he certified under oath.
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<br />133. The - taxes on licenses accruing under the provisions of
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<br />this ordinance shall be due and payable, except where otherwise
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<br />herein provided, on or before the thirteenth day of April, 1915,
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<br />and shall be paid by the person against whom assessed to the
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<br />Treasurer of the city in his office on or before the first day of
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<br />May.
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<br />134. All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, relating to licenses
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<br />in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
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<br />Presented and approved April 14, 1916. Adopted by the Council April 13, 1916.
<br />Mayor Signature. President Singnature.
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<br />AN ORDINANCE REGUALTING THE LICENSING AND OPERATING OF JITNEY BUSES.
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That an ordinance regulating the
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<br />licensing and operating of automobile buses, commonly known as Jitney Buses, adopted
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<br />April 26, 1916, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows;
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<br />That the owner or lessee of every automobile -bus, or other autumobile commonly known
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<br />as a jitney -bus operating on the streets of Charlottesville shall conform to the
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<br />following requirements and every such vehicle shallbe operated in pursuance of the
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<br />rules, regulations, restrictions and conditions hereinafter prescribed and set forth:
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<br />1. The owner or lessee of such vesicle, shall after having selected a route as
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<br />hereinafter provided, obtain a license for the right to operate eacl, vehicle by making
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<br />written application to the Commissioner of Revenue for the city or a printed form to
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<br />be prescribed by and furnished by the said Commissioner by Laying a license fee or
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<br />tax according to the following schedule: $30. for each vehicle seating from one to
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<br />four passengers, $42. for each vehicle seating from five to seven passengers, for each
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<br />vehicle with a seating capacity above seven $3. additional for each unit of seating
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<br />capacity in excess thereof, and by executing and delivering to the Mayor, to be filed
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<br />with the city auditor, an indemnifying, bond in a bonding company doing business in
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<br />this state, or a bond payable to the city of Charlottesville secured by deed of trust
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<br />on real property, of the unincumbered value of the face value of the bond, for the sum
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<br />of $1,000. satisfactory to the city attorney and conditioned that the maker of the
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<br />bond and suretiesand endorsers thereof shall be liable in and for all danaves to any
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<br />person accepted as a passenger on such vehicle or damages to any other person,
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<br />proximately caused by the negligent operation thereof or by any known or patent defect
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<br />in vehicle. Such bond shall state the factory number of the car and otherwise describe
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<br />said car. The Mayor shall release tre deed of trust when the license expires or is
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<br />surrendered. The Commissioner of Revenue shall, upon approval of application,
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<br />Payment of license tax, and filing of bond hereinbefore provided for, place such
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<br />application with the treasurer of tlne city, who shall deliver to the applicant a
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<br />written license showing the route over which such vesicle is to be operated, and
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<br />limiting the right of a operation to such route. Such license shall state the factory
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<br />number of the car and otherwise describe said car.
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<br />2. The owner or lessee of each vehicle to be licensed and operated under the provisions
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<br />of this ordinance shall select from the routes hereinafter classified, the route over
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<br />which the vehicle is to be operated. The following classifications of routes shall
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<br />govern:
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<br />(a) Any route no portion of which lies along the same street and parallel to
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<br />the C. & A. Ry. Co Is tracks may be selected and operated over;
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<br />(b) Any route which lies along; the same street and parallels all or a portion
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<br />Of said C. & A. Ry. Co's tracks may be selected and operated over, provided such
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<br />route also includes five (5) blocks, or a distance equal thereto, along other streets
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<br />not occuried and used by the tracks of said C. & A. Ry. Co;
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<br />(c) Any route which lies wholly along Main Street and parallel to the C & A
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<br />Ry. CO's tracks, may be selected and operated over, provided such vehicle shall operate
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<br />every day, Sundays and holidays included, for a period of at least ten hours per day
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<br />and on a regular schedule not to exceed sixty minutes per round trip. Such period of
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<br />ten hours shall be divided into two sessions of five consecutive hours, with an
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<br />intermission of not more than one hour, as follows: from 8 A. M. to 1 P. M. and from
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<br />2 P. M. to 7 P. M. Nothingherein shall prohibit onerationon the regular schedule
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<br />time before or after, the hours here prescribed. Any vehicle. licensed and operated
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<br />under this ordinance shall. on each and every trip cover the entire route so selected;
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<br />and in no case shall the vehicle cover a portion of its route a second time before it
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<br />has gone over the whole .route.
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<br />3. All vehicles licensed and operated under this ordinance shall when, operating
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<br />on or along the route for which they are licensed, display, in some proper and
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<br />convenient manner a sign stating the terminus of the route, the way the machine is
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<br />going, and the fare for the trip one way. And all. such vehicles, on leaving the
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<br />route for which they are licensed, shall take dorm. or otherwise conceal the afore-
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<br />mentioned sign until its return to its route.
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