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No person, firm or corporation shall, in the city, operate any motor vehicle upon any public way, for the carriage of passengers for hire, in such a manner as to afford a means of transportation similar to that afforded by a railway company, by indiscriminately receiving and discharging passengers along the route on which the vehicle is operated or may be running, or for transporting passengers for hire as a business between fixed and regular termini, without first obtaining a license therefor from the Boston City Council, and unless such license is in force according to the provisions of and subject to this and the following Subsections. Such license shall be subject to revocation at any time by order of the Boston City Council. Whenever the word
LICENSEE is used in this and the following Subsections, it shall mean the person, firm or corporation licensed under this Subsection.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 356; CBC 1985 16-28.1)
No person shall prosecute a petition to the Boston City Council for a license under M.G.L. Chapter 159A, Section 1 unless, at his or her own expense, he or she has caused to be published, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city, at least seven days before the public hearing to be held by the proper committee of the Boston City Council, a notice of the time and place of such hearing, nor unless at his or her own expense he or she has also sent by registered mail not less than seven days before such hearing a copy of such notice to the Police Commissioner, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and such persons as shall file with the Clerk of Committees a written request for noticed under this Subsection.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 357; CBC 1985 16-28.2; Ord. 1991 c. 5 § 39)
No licensee shall so operate any such motor vehicle except between such termini and over such route and with such stopping places as shall be specified by the Boston City Council in the license granted under the provisions of Subsection 16-28.1, and except in case of emergency, the licensee shall not deviate from the specifications of said license without the approval of the Boston City Council.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 358; CBC 1985 16-28.3)
No licensee shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater, or less, or different compensation for the transportation of passengers or for any service in connection therewith, than the rates, fares and charges applicable to such transportation as specified in the license granted by the Boston City Council.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 359; CBC 1985 16-28.4)
No such motor vehicle shall be used or operated without a printed sign thereon stating the termini of the route, the fare to be charged and the license number, which sign shall be so printed and attached to the motor vehicle as to be plainly visible to persons on the street, or without a printed sign thereon showing the schedule of service filed and in effect at the time, which sign shall be so printed and attached to the said motor vehicle as to be plainly visible to passengers boarding such motor vehicle.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 360; CBC 1985 16-28.5)
The license issued for such motor vehicle shall designate the number of passengers, exclusive of the operator, the licensee is authorized to carry in said vehicle, and no person driving or in charge of said vehicle shall take on or suffer or permit any more persons to ride or to be carried thereon at any one time than the number designated in the license, or permit any person to stand inside or to stand or sit upon any running board, steps, fender, dash or hood thereof, or permit any person to ride on such motor vehicle outside the body thereof; provided, however, that in addition to the number of passengers which said motor vehicle by the terms of its license is permitted to carry, children under seven years of age may be carried therein, in arms, or seated on the laps of adult persons accompanying them, but no passenger with a child in arms or seated on the lap shall be permitted on any front seat of the vehicle.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 361; CBC 1985 16-28.6)
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