9-124-280 Penalty.

   Except where some other penalty is specifically provided, any person owning or operating street cars shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 for violation of any provision of this part of this chapter dealing with street railroads, and any conductor, driver or collector of fares violating any of said provisions shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense.

(Prior code § 188-31)

ARTICLE III. ELEVATED RAILROADS (9-124-290 et seq.)

9-124-290 Scope of regulations.

   Nothing contained in this part of this chapter dealing with elevated railroads, or any order of the city council passed in pursuance thereof shall affect or prejudice in any way the rights of the city or its legal representatives, or the state's attorney of Cook County, in any pending or future litigation concerning the respective rights of the city or the owners or lessees of any electric elevated railroad in any of the streets of the city under any statute or ordinance heretofore enacted or passed. Nor shall any section of this part of this chapter dealing with elevated railroads be construed or understood as extending or enlarging in any way rights which the owners or lessees of any such elevated railroad may now possess in the public streets of the city.

(Prior code § 188-32)

9-124-300 "Rush hours" defined.

   For the purposes of this part of this chapter dealing with elevated railroads, rush hours are hereby defined to be the following periods of time: between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., and between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

(Prior code § 188-33)

9-124-310 Schedule of operation.

   Every person owning any tracks over which any elevated railroad trains are operated, or operating any elevated railroad trains, shall control the operation of said trains by means of a written schedule for each separate line. Said schedule or schedules shall be prepared to provide a sufficient number of trains in order to comply with the provisions of this Code. One true copy of each schedule, showing the number of trains operated thereby, and the train numbers, and the schedule time of arriving at and departing from one terminal, and the running time between designated time points, shall be filed with the city clerk.

   In case a revision or rearrangement of any schedule is made, one true copy of the new schedule shall be filed with the city clerk not less than three days before such new schedule shall be put into effect.

   Each train operated shall bear a suitable run number sign, indicating the position of said train on its schedule and identifying its schedule movements, and each train operated in addition to the schedule cars as an "extra" car shall carry a suitable train number sign bearing the letter "X".

   Each train (extra trains excepted) shall be dispatched and operated in accordance with the schedule on file with the city clerk.

   Each day that any violation of this section shall continue shall be considered a separate and distinct offense.

(Prior code § 188-34)

9-124-320 Seats for passengers.

   Every person owning any tracks over which any elevated railroad trains are operated, or operating any elevated railroad trains, shall on each separate line operate trains at such intervals (except during rush hours) that the aggregate number of seats within the trains passing any point in any one direction during any period of 15 consecutive minutes shall be not less than the aggregate number of passengers carried on said trains passing said point during said period of 15 consecutive minutes. Provided, however, that if less than three trains pass any point on any line during a 15-minute period, then the aggregate number of seats carried by three consecutive trains in any one direction passing any point shall be not less than the aggregate number of passengers carried by said three consecutive trains passing said point.

   Every person owning any tracks over which any elevated railroad trains are operated, or operating any elevated trains, shall operate trains at such intervals that not less than one train shall be operated during each and every fifteen minute period of the entire 24 hours of each day, excepting the six hours between 12:00 and 6:00 a.m.

   Every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00 for each offense. Each day upon which a violation occurs upon any one line shall constitute a single offense. Not more than one penalty shall be recovered for a violation committed on any line during any one day.

(Prior code § 188-35)

9-124-330 Stops when on ground.

   No person owning or operating any elevated railroad shall suffer or permit any car operated by it, when in transit over the surface of the ground upon rails laid thereon, to be run by any street intersection at which a station has been provided, without stopping. All such cars while so in transit shall be stopped at each station.

(Prior code § 188-36)

9-124-340 Shunting or running down inclines.

   No person owning or operating any elevated railroad shall allow or permit any of the cars owned or operated by him to be shunted or run down inclines from the elevated structure to the surface of the ground, unless such cars are under the absolute control of a competent motorman or engineer, or person acquainted with and competent to operate the motor machinery of such car. No car shall be allowed or permitted by any person operating or owning the same to be shunted or run down any such incline, unless the motor machinery of the same can be controlled so as to decrease the rate of speed of such car while running down such incline. No car shall be run down such incline at a rate of speed greater than ten miles per hour.

(Prior code § 188-37)