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154 4. No person licensed to operate a veloicle under this ordinance shall himself or through the agency of another, make any contract for the hire or use of the vehicle on or along the route for which it is licensed, whether his sign be displayed or not other than the usual contract for transportation at the usual rate of fare. 5. Such vehicle shall be operated only by persons over sixteen years of shall have received the written permission of the mayor after examination receipt of other satisfactory evidence of his ability and knowledge. 6. All vehicles licensed and operated under the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to and required too conform to the laws regulating street use and automobiles and ushe 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 vellicle shall net 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 passengers shall ride on the running boards, doors, or other portion of the vehicle not intended for a passenger seat, the interior of such vehicles, while in operation between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, shall be lighted in such manner as may be designated by the mayor. 7. The Mayor, Chief of police or any person duly autnorized by them shall, in cases of emergency, such as fires, accidents, street parades, obstructions, defects in streets etc., have power to divert such vehicles to such other streets or blocks than their accustomed routes, as will in his discretion best serve the public. 8. The owner or lessee of a vehicle having a license to operate it complied with the State license laws, temporarily substitute fur it of the same seating capacity, provided a description of such vehicle shall be filed with and approved by the Mayor. 9. The owner or lessee of a vehicle having a license to operate it under tris ordi- nance, and the agent of any such owner ur lessee, violating any provision of the ordinance shall be fined not less than $5. nor more than $100. for each offense, and each day or part of a day shall constitute a separate offense. Any fine so imposed shall be recoverable before the police, justice of Charlottesville, and upon conviction of any such person, the mayor, after being notified of such conviction by the police ,justice, shall have the power, if in his opinion the case deserves it, to revoke the licensee's license or the operator's permit as the case may be. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Adopted April 29, 1916. Presented and approved April 30, 1916. President Signature. Mayor Singnature. Section 146. WARDS --names and boundaries. WHEREAS the corporate limits of the City of Charlottesville have been extended and it is necessary that the annexed territory should be organized and attached to existing wards and that the boundaries of existing wards should be changed, so that the wards of said city should be as nearly equal in population as possible, NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE in regular meeting duly assembled, That hereafter the territory within the corporate limits of said city as defied In the order of the Circuit Court of Albemarle County entered February 14,1916, C. O. B. 38 p.283 be divided into four wards whose boundaries shall be as follows: The First Ward shall embrace all territory Dying east of a line extending from the intersection of the eenter of lain and Fifth Streets, east, as follows: Southwardly from said intersection of Main and Fifth Streets, east, along the center of Fifth Street, southeast, and projected in same course to the corporate limits in the south; westwardly from said intersection of the center of Main and Fifth Streets east along the center of Main Street to the intersection of the center of Main and Fourth Street, east, thence no thence northwardly along; the center of Fourth Street, northeast and projected in same course to the corporate limits on the north. The Second Ward shall embrace all the territary lying North of the center of Main Street and West of the First Ward as defined above and east of the center line of Tenth Street N. E. , projected in a northerly direction to the corporate limits. The Third Ward shall embrace all territory lying South of Main Street and West of the First Ward as defined above and East of a line extending from the center of Main Street southwardly along the center of ninth Street to its intersection with the center line of Grove Street, thence southwestwardly along the center line of Grove Street to the corporate limits. The Fourth Ward shall embrace all the territory in the western part of said corporate limits which is not embraced within the boundaries of the Second Ward the Third Ward as above defined. Be it further ordained that each of the four wards as above defined shall constitute an election district and that the voting place in each of said wards shall remain as heretofore established. Adopted July 13, 1916. Presented and approved July 14, 1916. President Signature. Mayor Singnature.