HomeMy WebLinkAbout1308 AN ORDINANCE regulating parking, standing, and the loading and unload-
ing of passengers by vehicles used for carrying passengers for hire, regul-
ating the issuance and granting of permits for parking or standing privileges
in the City of ~remerton for such vehicles, repealing all ordinances or
parts of ordinances in conflict therewith, and imposing penalties for the
violation thereof.
THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF Bt~E~RTON DOES 0RD~IN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to park or stand any
taxicab, stage, "For Hire" car, bus or other vehicle used for carrying
passengers for a consideration, on any street or avenue south of Sixth Street
and East of Warren Avenue in the City of Bremerton, except while actually
loading or unloading passengers, unless a written permit granting the
privilege of parking or standing in some particular place within said part
of the City of Bremerton shall have been issued by the City Commission sub-
sequent to the I7th day of January, 1940, as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. No permit shall be issued for such parking or standing
on First Street between Washington Avenue and the Navy Yard Gate, or on
Pacific Avenue between First Street and Fourth Street.
Section 3. Any person, firm or corporation, engaged in or intending
to engage in the business of operating a taxicab, stage, "For Hire" car,
bus or other vehicle for carrying passengers for a consideration in the
City of Bremerton, and desiring the privilege of parking or standing a
vehicle or vehicles at any particular place or area on the streets or alleys
in the City of Bremerton, whi6h place or area shall be known as a "For Hire
Zone" may file with the City Clerk, upon payment of a filing fee of $5.00
a written application which shall be in duplicate and signed by the applicant,
which said application shall contain the exact location and size of the "For
Hire Zone" applied for, the size and description of the vehicle or vehicles
of the applicant for which such privilege is sought, the hours during which
said privilege is intended to be utilized, the signature of the owner or
lessees of the abutting property consenting to the granting of such privilege
and a general statement describing the business of the applicant, and contain-
ing any facts or information tending to establish that the privilege should
be granted.
Section 4. Immediately upon such filing, the duplicate application
shall be delivered to the Chief of Police for investigation, and the applicati
shall be referred to the City Co~nission for its consideration. The Chief of
Police shall make his recommendations regarding said application to the City
Commission, either orally or in writing, and the City Commission shall either
approv~e and grant, or reject the said application. In no case is the said
fee of $5.00 to be returned to the applic$*ant. The decision of the City
Commission shall be final, In the event the City Commission approve and
grant such application, a permit signed by the Mayor and attested by the City
Clerk shall be issued to the applicant, granting to him the privilege as
approved by the City Commission. Such permit shall be subject to revocation
at any time for any reason deemed by the Commission to be for the public
interest.
Section 5. At any time the Chief of Police, or any member of the City
Commission, believes it to be for the public interest to revoke any permit
previously issued, he shall recommend said revocation to ths ~ity Commission,
the Commission shall set a date for hearing upon the matter of said revocation
an~d shall give to the person, firm or corporation, to whom said permit was
issued, at least five (5) days' notice in writing by ordinary mail, of the
date when the Commission will consider said recommendation of the Chief of
Police.
Section 6. Ordinance No. 529, passed April 10, 1916, Ordinance No. 722,
passed April 25, 1921, Ordinance No. 776, passed May 9, 1923, and Section 7
of Ordinance No. 1021, passed April 14, 1934, as amended b~ Ordinance No. ll20
passed March 6, 1937, and any other ordinance or parts of ordinances in con-
flict with the provisions of this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repeal
Ordinance No. 1308 contl
Section 7. Any person, firm or corporation, violating, or failing to
comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum
not exceeding $100.00, or by imprisonment in the city Jail not exceeding
thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 8. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days
after its approval, passage and publication as provided by law.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the
~ayor and attested by the Cit? Clerk in authentication of such passage this
20th day of January, 1940.
Attest:
S.
I the u~i~ed do ~rtit~ that
and fore~oin; is a tv~ and cer~act
of the ~t) of B[emmt~, W~t~ofl
mbove date,