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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 78, 29 September 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

No. 3.-CARRIAGE BY-LAW. A By-law to regulate the licensing of passenger vehicles plying for hire within the Borough of Feilding, or between places beyond and within the Borough, and to provide for the licensing of drivers. In pursuance of the powers and provisions conferred by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886," the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Feilding, commonly called the Feilding Borough Council, and hereinafter called the " Council," ordain as follows: — Definitions. 1. The word " Carriage" shall mean " licensed carriage." The word "Owner," as applied to vehicles, shall include every person who, either alone or in partnership with anyother person, shall keep or be concerned or interested, otherwise than as a driver or attendant, in the keeping, employing, or letting to hire of any licensed carriage. The expression " this part " shall mean " this part of this present By-law." Unless there be something in the context repugnant to such construction, words importing the singular number only shall include the plural, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number, and words importing the masculine gender shall include females. Passenger Vehicles. 2. No carriage shall be kept or used to ply for hire, either wholly within the Borough or between any place within and any place without the Borough, unless the same shall have been duly licensed as hereinafter mentioned ; and any person using in the said Borough to ply for hire any unlicensed carriage shall be deemed to commit art offence on every day that he shall so use such carriage as aforesaid. Licenses. 3. Carriage licenses may be granted by or in the name and on behalf of the Town Clerk. 4. For every such license there shall be paid the sum of ten shillings. 5. Before any such license is granted, an application for the sanif>, in such form as the Council shall approve, shall be made by the owner or one of the owners of the carriage in respect of which the license is applied for ; and in every such application the name and surname and place of abode of the applicant, and of every owner of such carriage, shall be truly stated ; and any person who states in such application the name of any person who is not an owner of the carriage in respect of which he applies, or wilfully omits to specify truly in such application the name of any owner of such carriage, shall be deemed to commit an offence. 6. No such application for a license shall be granted until an inspection of the carriage to which the same shall relate shall have been made by the inspector, nor unless such I carriage shall upon such inspection be considered by, and certified in writing under the hand of the inspector, to be in a fit and proper condition, and sufficiently convenient in all respects for public use. 7. In every license there shall be specified the number of the license, the name and surname and place of abode of every owner of the carriage in respect of which the license is granted, and the maximum number of the persons to be carried in and by such carriage, with such other particulars as the Council may think fit. 8. All carriage licenses shall be yearly, and shall terminate and become void upon the 31st December in each year, and each such license shall include only one carriage. 9. So. often as any person named in any such license as owner of any such carriage changes his place of abode, he shall, within seven days after such change, give notice thereof in writing under his hand to the Town Clerk, specifying in such notice his new place of abode, and he shall at the same time produce such license at the office of the Town Clerk, who shall cause to be endorsed thereon a memorandum specifying the particulars of such change. 10. The owner of every licensed carriage shall at all times have and keep, to the satisfaction of the inspector, the number of such carriage, and the number of passengers it is licensed to carry, painted in figures not less than one inch in length, and in white on a black ground, on both sides of the panel of the driver's seat, so as to be distinctly visible during daylight. 11. It shall be lawful for the inspector, at any time, and as often as he shall think fit, to make an inspection of all or any licensed carriages, and of the horses and harness used in drawing the same respectively, and if any such carriage, or the horses or harness used in drawing the same, shall, in any particular whatsoever, be, in the opinion of the inspector, in a condition unfit or unsafe for public use, or shall not, in such opinion, be in a clean and decent condition, the inspector shall give written notice to that effect to the owner thereof, and it, after service of such notice, any owner shall use or let to hire such carriage, or use or let to hire such horses or harness whilst the same or any of them respectively shall be in any such condition as aforesaid, the Council may suspend, for such time as they may think fit, the license of such carriage ; and every driver or conductor who shall ply for hire, and any owner who shall permit any driver or conductor to ply for hire, with any carriage which shall be, in the opinion of the inspector, at the the time unfit or unsafe for public nse, shall be guilty of an offence on every day thst such driver or conductor shall so ply for hire, or that such owner shall permit any driver or conductor to ply for hire as aforesaid. 12. The driver and conductor (if any) of every licensed carriage are hereby required, while employed as such driver or conductor, to wear clean and decent clothing, and otherwise to present a cleanly and decent personal appearance,