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(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)
Upon the payment of the license fee the City Clerk shall issue a license to the owner of the horse drawn carriage together with a license plate to be securely affixed to a conspicuous and indispensable part of such horse drawn carriage on which shall be clearly set forth the license number of such horse drawn carriage. The license plate issued to the licensee may in the discretion of the City Clerk, or his or her designee, be a plate of a permanent nature with replaceable date tag attached thereto, indicating the expiration date of the plate during each license year and the issuance of such a place with such date tag to a person possessing such a plate, shall be deemed issuance of a license plate. Such license plate and the replaceable date tag to be issued from year-to-year to be attached thereto, shall be of such material, form, design and dimension and set forth such distinguishing number or other identification marks as the City Clerk’s office shall prescribe. The City Clerk, or his or her designee, upon renewal of the license hereunder, may continue the use of license plate for as many additional license years as he or she in his or her discretion may determine, in which event he or she shall issue and deliver to the licensee a replaceable date tag as evidence of renewal of license, which shall be attached or affixed in such manner as he or she may prescribe by regulation. The failure to affix or display such date tag in a manner prescribed by the City Clerk’s office shall constitute a violation of this section. In the event of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any license plate or date tag issued, the owner may file such statement and proof of facts as the City Clerk shall require with a fee of twenty five dollars ($25.00) at the City Clerk’s office and the City Clerk’s office shall issue a duplicate or substitute license plate or date tag.
(Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a horse drawn carriage within the City without having a valid horse drawn carriage driver’s license from the City Clerk and that person has been found to comply with all the requirements of the laws of the State and shall have been certified by the Police Department as an authorized person to operate a vehicle.
(b) Each applicant for a horse drawn carriage driver’s license must meet the following requirements:
(1) Have a valid State operator’s license;
(2) Be at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(3) Have good eyesight, be in good physical condition and not be subject to any infirmity of body or mind which might render him or her unfit for the safe operation of the vehicle;
(4) Be able to sufficiently speak and write the English language to carry out the duties required of a licensed horse drawn carriage driver;
(5) Be clean in dress and not addicted to the use of drugs or intoxicating liquors;
(6) Be a person of good character.
(c) Each applicant for a horse drawn carriage driver’s license shall satisfactorily establish that he or she knows:
(1) The applicable traffic regulations;
(2) The geography of appropriate routes; and
(3) Has mastered the proper care, handling and driving of carriage horses.
(d) The applicants shall be approved by the Chief of Police or his or her designee after demonstrating their ability to operate a horse drawn carriage in a safe and prudent manner, including the following:
(1) Understanding the proper method of fitting a harness to a horse and hitching and unhitching a properly harnessed horse to a carriage;
(2) Understanding the proper handling and driving of a horse drawn carriage;
(Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)
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