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16-15.5   Vehicles for Hire.
   (A)   In the city, no person, firm or corporation driving or having charge of a taxicab or other private vehicle shall offer the vehicle for hire for the purpose of transporting, soliciting and/or picking up a passenger or passengers unless said person is licensed as a hackney driver and said vehicle is licensed as a hackney carriage by the Police Commissioner of said city. In addition, no person, firm or corporation driving of having charge of a taxicab or other private vehicle shall operate identifiable taxi top lights for the purpose of transporting, soliciting and/or picking up a passenger or passengers unless said person is licensed as a hackney driver and said vehicle is licensed as a hackney carriage by the Police Commissioner of said city.
   (B)   Any Police Officer witnessing a violation of division (A) above may arrest the driver of the vehicle and seize evidence of said violation. Such evidence shall include, but is not limited to, meters, whether mechanical or electrical, for the computation of fares based on mileage or predetermined periods of time. Any Officer who seizes such items as evidence of a violation of division (A) above shall take them to a place of safety until they are produced or used as evidence in any trial or other Court proceedings. All such property seized shall be disposed of as the Court Orders, and may be forfeited, sold or destroyed in the discretion of the Court.
   (C)   No owner or association of owners, whose principal place of business is located in the city, and who owns a taxicab or taxicabs licensed by the city, shall be allowed to dispatch taxicabs within the city unless said taxicabs are licensed by the Boston Police Commissioner and the operators of said taxicabs possess valid hackney carriage driver licenses issued by the Boston Police Department. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed as prohibiting a driver of a taxicab licensed outside the city from driving through said city, or from accepting within the city, a passenger, passengers, packages or other merchandise if summoned by or at the request of said passenger or client by telephone, or by radio dispatch from the owner or operator’s principal place of business outside the city; provided that the name, pick-up address and destination of said passenger or client are immediately supplied by the driver to any inquiring Police Officer.
   (D)   Anyone found in violation of this Subsection shall be punished by fine of not more than $500 for each violation.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 323; CBC 1985 16-15.5; Ord. 1986 c. 13 § 2-5; Ord. 2002 c. 8)
16-15.6   Use of Protective Headgear.
   All persons operating a motorized bicycle, as defined by the Registry of Motor Vehicles of the commonwealth, or riding as a passenger on a motorized bicycle shall wear protective headgear in the city. The headgear shall conform with such minimum standards of construction and performance as the registrar may prescribe for use by motorcycle operators.
(Ord. 1985 c. 13; CBC 1985 16-15.6)
16-16   STREET CARS.
16-16.1   Speed Limits.
   No person having the control of the speed of a street railway car on the surface of any street, except in spaces especially reserved for street railway cars, shall allow such car to go at a rate of speed faster than ten mph in any part of the city included within the following bounds: Charles Street, Park Square, Eliot Street, Kneeland Street, Atlantic Avenue, Commercial Street, Causeway Street and Leverett Street, including said boundary streets; or in any other part of the City Proper, so called, lying north of Massachusetts Avenue and Southampton Street, at a rate of speed faster than 12 mph; or in any other part of the city at a rate of speed faster than 15 mph; or in turning a corner in any part of the city at a rate of speed faster than four miles per hour.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 325; CBC 1985 16-16.1)
16-16.2   Intersections.
   In approaching any public or private way intersecting that in which the railway is located, the speed of the car must be reduced to such a rate as will make it possible to stop immediately.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 326; CBC 1985 16-16.2)
16-16.3   Curves.
   In rounding curves and in all cases where the view of the motorman is obstructed for any reason, the speed of the car must be reduced to meet the condition of limited vision of railway and highway.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 327; CBC 1985 16-16.3)
16-16.4   Grades.
   Before taking any heavy descending grade, the speed of the car must be so reduced as to test the working of the brakes.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 328; CBC 1985 16-16.4)
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