HomeMy WebLinkAbout1321 AN ORDINANCE defining and regulating auto stages and owners thereof,
requiring such owners to provide a depot or terminal point within the City of
Bremerton, with the approval of the City Commission of said City, for taking
on or discharging passengers from auto stages; establishing procedure in
connection with the approving of such depots or terminals; prohibiting the
taking on or discharging of passengers by auto stages on the city streets or
sidewalks, except at such depot.s or terminal points; providing for the grant-
ing by the City Commission of the right ~and provilege of taking on or dis-
charging passengers by auto stages at not more than two additional points or
places in the City oITM Bremerton; prescribing penalties; repealing ordinances
or parts of ordinances in con£1ict therewith, and~declaring an emergency to
exist.
THE CITY C0~ISSION OF THE CITY OF BRE~IERTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Definitions. The following words and phrases wherever used
in this ordinance, shall have the meaning in this section ascribed to them.
('a) Auto Stage. Any motor' vehicle used for carrying passengers for hire
between places or points more than two miles distant from the city limits of
the City of Bremerton and places or points within or beyond the said city
limits, and entering or passing through the said City on a regular schedule of
time and rates.
(b) Owner. Any person, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company,
association or joint stock company owning or operating or in charge of the
operation of, any auto stage, as hereinbefore defined.
Section 2. Every owner of one or more auto stages shall select one depot
or terminal point in the City of Bremerton as its principal stopping place or
terminal for picking up and discharging passengers in said city, and in the
event it is necessary that the city streets or sidewalks be used by passengers
in getting on or off said stages at said depot or terminal point, said owner
shall designate, in writing, the exact location of said depot or terminal point,
and deliver such designation to the Chief of Police of the City of Bremerton
within ten days from the date this ordinance goes into effect, except in the
case of owners not now operating stages in the City of Bremerton but intending
to do so.
Section 3. Owners not now operating auto s~ages in or through the City
of Bremerton but intending to do so, shall deliver to the Chief of Police of
the City of Bremerton, such designation in writing, and secure the approval
of the City Commission relating thereto, as hereinafter set forth before
operating any stage within the City of Bremerton.
Section 4. The Chief of Police of the City of Bremerton shall, i~nediately
following the delivery to him of any designation in writing, of a depot or
terminal point, make a thorough investigation into the traffic conditions in
the locality so designated, and shall, at the next regular Saturday meeting of
the City Cormmission, make a report to the said Commission, either approving or
rejecting said depot or terminal point. ~After hearing the report of the Chief
of Police and after hearing statements by any interested parties in connection
with the matter of such depot or terminal point, the City Commission shall
either allow or .refuse to a'llow said owner to operate auto stages from, and to
use such depot or terminal point, and said written designation shall for all
legal purposes be considered as an application by such o,muer for the right to
use such portion of the City streets and sidewalks adjacent to such depot or
terminal point for loading and uhloading passengers, and the action of the City
Co~is sion .either granting or rejecting such application, shall be legally
deemed as the granting or refusal o£ such application, although no fee shall
be charged in connection with such application or the granting or rejection
thereof.
Section 5. In the event such application shall be rejected, the City
Con~aission shall have the right to designate a depot or terminal poi~t for the
use of said o~er.in discharging a.nd taking on passengers, until such time as
an a~plication for a depot or terminal 'point' in a different location be approved.
by the City Commission. Orders of 'the C~ty Co~m_ission shall be by motion cr by
resolution adopted by a majority of the Com~ission.
Section 6. No owner of any auto stage, shall permit or allow the taking
on or discharging of passengers on the city streets or sidewalks of the City
of BreK,~erton at any point or place within the city limits except at a depot or
'terminal point approved by majority of the members of the City Commission of
Ordinance No. 1321 (cont)
the City of Bremerton, as hereinbefore set forth, except that in the interim
between the date which this ordinance goes into effect and the first regular
Saturday meeting, after ten days shall'have elapsed from such effective date,
the owners of auto stages shall have the right tO take on and discharge
passengers at 6ne depot or terminal point which has been used prior to the
passage and publication of this ordinance as a depot or terminal point by
such owner of auto stages, even though such taking on and discharging of
passengers shall necessitate the use of the streets or sidewalks of the City
of Bremerton.
Section 7 Upon application by any owner tn w?iting to the City
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Commission, for the privilege and authority of taking on and discharging
passengers from auto stages while enroute through the City of Bremerton, 5:, .....
to or from its depot or terminal point, at a designated point or points
than at said depot or terminal point, the City Commission may by motion o~
re~lution duly passed by a ~ajority of said Co~ntssion, and after receivt~:'
the recommendation of the Chief of Police of the City of Bremerton, allow~-
owner to pick up and discharge passengers at such point or points, prov'f~'?[i
however, that no owner shall be granted the right to take on and dischar~;
passengers within the city limits of the City of Bremerton at more th~.n.-.~!~.,~
points or places where such taking on or discharging will necessitatff the
of the city streets or sidewalks; and no owner shall be grahted the rtgh;
take on and discharge passengers witt~in the city limits of the City o~
pomnt during ~:.~
Bremerton at any point other than at its depot or terminal
time of peak traffic, between ?:15 A.M. and 8:00 A.M., and between 4:4~
...... and 5:30 P.M., on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday~. ,.~.~.
each week. '
Section 8. Ail ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with any
of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 9. Any owner or driver of any auto· stage violating any of the
terms or provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty, of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00 or shall be confined
to the City Jail for not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine
· and imprisonment.
Section 10. An emergency exists and this ordinance is necessary for
traffic control and for preservation of the public health and safety in the
City of Bremerton, and this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its
passage and publication.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the
Mayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, this
27th day of April, 1940.
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