Council Proceedings: October 15, 1906

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To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Fort Worth.

Gentlemen:

I report with reference to your action on the accompanying document that there is at this time an ordinance in force in the city of Fort Worth regulatingthe amount of hack charges, a copy of which I attach hereto for your information. It appears in the Boykin Revision on page 181 thereof and seems to cover the whole situation unless you desire to change the amount of the charges.

Respectfully submitted, EC Orrick City Atty

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Chapter Seven. (Boykin Revision omitted from Adams & Reily)

Regulating Street Carriages and Hacks.

Article 49. Amount of charge. It shall be unlawful for any persons owning or using a street carriage, hack or other vehicle for the purpose of conveying passengers from one place to another in said city, to charge more than fifty cents for each passenger, including one trunk, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons owning or using a street carriage, hack or other vehicle from one place to another in said city, to charge more than two dollars for the first hour and one dollar and fifty cents for each and every subsequent hour.

Article 50. Printed Cards of Rates to be kept in Vehicle. The owner, driver or person running any street carriage, hack or other vehicle, used for transportation of persons for hire, shall keep on the inside of each street carriage, hack or other vehicle, hung up in a conspicuous and prominent manner, so as to be easily seen and read, a printed card of the tariff of rates fixed herein.

Art. 51. penalty- Any person who shall be found guilty of violating any preceding article of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars,

Art. 52. Extortion. Every person owning, keeping or using any licensed vehicle who shall refuse to transport any person when applied to, at the rates established by ordinances of the city, or who shall extort or demand any greater sum for carrying any person than herein allowed, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

Art. 53. passenger Refusing pay Liable.- Any person refusing to pay the fare established by ordinances of the city after being carried to his or her destination, or place where they may wish to leave such licensed vehicle, if demanded, without delay, by the owner or driver of

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such vehicle, shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct, and on conviction, shall be fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars for each offense.

Art. 54. Misrepresentations, Etc., by Driver.- Any owner or driver of any licensed vehicle, who shall, by any misrepresentation or device, induce another to employ his vehicle, or who shall carry any passenger without his or her request to any house of ill-fame or bad repute, or shall deceive any passenger in any manner, or shall, under any pretext whatever, assault, threaten, insult or otherwise abuse any passenger, shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.

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Whereas it is Common knowledge of all that the hackmen of Fort Worth are not obeying the ordinance of the city of Fort worth regulating the prices to be charged by the public hacks of Fort worth; therefore be it.

Resolved that the chief of police be hereby instructed to enforce this ordinance

BL Waggoman

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FILED OCT 1– 1906 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y.

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