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HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-00258ORDINANCE NO. 288. AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO TRE OPIRATING 0P MOTOR 11IVEN MULES AND GOVERN/NO ORAU PEURS. BE IT ORDAINED by the City Oounoil of the City of Miami Section 1: It shall be unlawful for any motor driven vehiole to be operated for the purpose of transporting paseengere or freight for hire, wholly or in part, within the City of Miami, unless such vehiole shall be driven bar a licensed chauffeur. Section 2: lvery chauffeur before driving or operating any auoh motor vehicle as is designated in Section 1, shall procure from the city clerk a license whioh shall be issued on compliance with the provieiona of this ordinance and in the same manner as other licenses are issued. Said lioense shall expire on the SOth day of September following its issuance. If the applicant shall have been, at the time of applying for auoh lioense, for six months continuously last past a resident of Dade County, Florida, he shall be entitled to a lioense hereby designated as a lioense of the first class, and shall pay therefor the sum of $10. per annum. A11 other licenses shall be designated as licensee of the second olaee and every applicant shall pay for licensee of the second class, the sum of $25.00 per annum. Section 3. No license shall be issued to any applicant until he shall file a written application, duly verified by oath, showing facts sufficient to enable the oity clerk to determine to what class of lioense the applicant is entitled under section 2 hereof. Said application shall be accomapdnied by the sworn certificate of two reputable citizens of Miami, showing that the applicant is of Bober habits and good character and is a oompetent chauffeur. Section 4. If any applicant shall, in his application, make sny false, fraudulent or inoorreot et+atament and thereby secure a license of the first *lase, when in fact he is entitled only to a license of the second aline, the license so procured shall be void and of no effect, and the person holding ssid license shall be sub= jest to prosecution to the sauce extent and s Ith the save effect so if no license had been ieeued. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any licensed chauffeur to drive or operate any motor vehicle in the City of Miami while he is intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicants, and upon upon conviction thereof, the City Council shall order his license revoked for a period of six months and he shall be subjeot to fine and imprisonment under the terms of Section 6 of this ordinance. Section 6. Whoever violates any provision of this ordinanoe ahall be punished by a fine not exceeding $200. or by imprisonment not exceeding silty days, or by both euoh fine and imprisonment. Section 7. If any license herein provided for shall be pro- cured by fraud or false representations, such lioense shall be re- voked by the City Council. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 24th day of January, 1918. P. G. ERFERT President City Council. ATTEST: W. B. MOORE City Clerk APPROVED this 31st day of January, 1918. Mayor, Miami, Florida.