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The driver is prohibited from doing the following:
(a) Solicit for or recommend any place maintained in violation of law;
(b) After leaving the starting point, receive additional passengers between such starting point and the ultimate destination, or operate on any route other than the prescribed route when such a route is designated;
(c) Abandon his or her vehicle, permit another to drive it for him or her, except an apprentice, or permit any passenger to ride on the driver’s seat;
(d) Operate the vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs;
(e) Carry more than six (6) adult passengers in the vehicle at any one time; or
(Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)
The Chief of Police or his or her designee shall have the authority to temporarily suspend the operation of horse drawn vehicles on the streets of the City when conditions for such operations become unsuitable or unsafe.
(Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)
(a) A vehicle shall be licensed as a horse drawn carriage only after it and the horse have been examined and inspected, and found to comply with all the requirements of the vehicle and traffic laws of the State, and have been determined by the Police Department as being safe and properly equipped to operate. The City Clerk, or his or her designee, shall refuse a license to, or if already issued, suspend the license of any horse drawn carriage or horse found to be unfit for operation.
(b) The City Clerk, or his or her designee, shall prescribe an appropriate form of inspection card for horse drawn carriages and the manner in which such card and the horse drawn carriage driver’s identification card shall be displayed.
(Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)
(a) Before the issuance of a license to operate a horse drawn carriage for hire, the licensee shall file a certificate of insurance signed by a duly authorized officer of a company authorized to write insurance in the State of Michigan confirming that a policy of insurance has been issued and is in full force and effect to the licensee and that the premium has been paid as required, together with a true copy of the policy contract or certificate of insurance.
(b) Such policy of insurance shall insure the licensee against loss resulting from liability imposed by law for property damage, bodily injury or death suffered by any person arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a horse drawn carriage with minimum liability coverage exclusive of interest and costs of not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) because of bodily injury or death of one (1) person in any one (1) accident, and subject to said limit of one (1) person, to a limit of not less than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) because of bodily injury to or death of two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and to a limit of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any accident.
(c) Such policy of insurance shall name the City of Flint as an additional party insured.
(d) Such policy of insurance shall contain a provision for a continuing liability to the amount thereof notwithstanding any recovery, and that until the policy is revoked, as herein provided, the insurance company will not be relieved from liability on account of nonpayment of premium, failure to renew license at the end of the year, or any act or omission of the named insured.
(e) Any insurance company whose policy has been so filed pursuant to this section may file a notice with the City Clerk’s office of its intention to terminate and cancel such policy and give notice thereof to the named licensee, whereupon after ten (10) days after such filing such licensee or owners shall cease to operate or cause to be operated within the City such horse drawn carriage, and the license issued therefor shall be automatically revoked and liability on such policy shall cease and terminate provided, that the liability of the insurance company therefor for any act or omission of the licensee or owners occurring prior to the effective date of cancellation shall not be thereby discharged or impaired.
(Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)
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