No person owning, leasing or operating any street railroad cars, elevated railroad cars or other railroad cars, which run from point to point within the City, either on elevated, surface or subway lines, shall permit any car to be used or operated on any of the public ways of said City or on any part of the right-of-way of said person unless the following conditions are complied with:
(a) The cars of the company shall be kept heated as follows:
A minimum temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit above zero shall be maintained in all cars in service carrying passengers when the outside temperature is at ten degrees Fahrenheit above zero or higher.
A minimum temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit above zero shall be maintained in all cars in service carrying passengers when the outside temperature is below ten degrees, but not below five degrees Fahrenheit above zero.
When the outside temperature is below five degrees Fahrenheit above zero the temperature in all cars in service carrying passengers shall be maintained at 45 degrees Fahrenheit above zero, or as near this point as the continuous operation of all the heaters in said cars to their full capacity will allow.
(b) There shall be maintained and conspicuously displayed in such car a standard Fahrenheit thermometer so located that it will furnish a fair criterion of the temperature of the car.
(c) The air shall be supplied in such quantity that the amount of carbon dioxide present in the air of the said car shall not exceed 12 parts in each 10,000 parts of air.
(d) Cars or portions of cars in which smoking is permitted shall be provided with a ventilating capacity 33 1/3 percent in excess of the capacity required for other cars or the portions of cars in which smoking is not permitted.
(e) Cars shall be opened up and freely aired at least once in 24 hours.
(f) The interior and platforms and insides of vestibules of all cars shall be kept clean, and cars in which smoking is permitted shall be cleaned after each round trip. All window glass of all cars shall be kept clean at all times when such cars are in operation.
(g) Each car on each separate line shall, after leaving the starting point, be run to the terminus of the lines as designated on such car, except in cases of breakdown or other unavoidable interruptions of traffic, and except when no passenger on the car desires to be carried to the terminus of said line.
(h) A sufficient number of cars on each separate line to carry passengers comfortably and without crowding shall be provided, which cars shall be run upon a proper and reasonable schedule, and such schedule shall upon request be furnished to the city council.
(i) For the purpose of providing comfortable transportation of passengers without crowding, the number of passengers to be carried in any street railroad, elevated railroad or steam railroad car shall not exceed the seating capacity of such street railroad, elevated railroad or steam railroad car.
(j) Each street or elevated railroad car shall be distinctly numbered and bear the name of its owner, both inside and outside, and shall bear appropriate and conspicuous signs upon its sides and ends indicating both day and night the route and destination of such car. Provided, however, that when two or more cars are operated as trains, said end signs shall be affixed to the front of the front car and to the rear of the rear car. At night such signs shall be illuminated.
(k) There shall be securely posted in each car, where it may be conveniently read by the passengers, a copy of the above regulations of this section.
The Commissioner of Public Health shall detail employees from the Department of Public Health to make the investigation necessary to determine whether or not the sanitary provisions of this section are being complied with, and the Department of Public Health shall report the result of such investigation to the Corporation Counsel. The Committee on Transportation and Public Way may secure information necessary to determine whether or not all other provisions of this section are being complied with and to cooperate with the Corporation Counsel in securing the evidence necessary to the prosecution of violations of this section.
Any person guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 for each car operated in violation of this section, and each day of the operation of such car shall be considered a separate offense.
(Prior code § 188-6; Amend Coun. J. 12-2-09, p. 78837, Art. 1, § 6; Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. V, § 5)