Subtitle 6 – Carriages, Wagons, Boats, and Scows

All hackney coaches, buggies, cabs, and gigs, kept for hire, and all wagons, furniture carriages, carts, drays, package carts, boats (other than open rowboats of every description), and scows, owned or commonly used or employed in the City, shall be numbered with plain conspicuous figures, on plates of tin, to be provided as hereinafter directed, to begin with number 1 and so on progressively.

The owner or owners of such carriages, boats, or scows, shall:

No owner is permitted to use or employ, or let for hire on any street, lane, or alley, nor in any water within the City, any hackney coach, buggy, cab, or gig, kept for hire, wagon, furniture carriage, cart, dray, package cart, boat (other than an open rowboat), or scow, until he or she first complies with the regulations contained in this subtitle.

The owner of any carriage, boat, or scow shall pay the following annual license fee:

The owners shall pay the fees to the Director of Finance.

Transfer of any of these licenses must be made at the Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing Collector, and no charge will be made therefor.

No owner licensed as provided in <cite data-path="|15|§6-2">§ 6-2 of this subtitle</cite> shall rent a vehicle to any person without first requiring proof of the identity (which shall include a clear photograph and a record of fingerprints) and address of the person proposing to rent the vehicle.

Said owner shall keep a permanent record on his premises of the names and addresses of all persons renting a vehicle or vehicles from him and the date of each rental.

The Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing shall furnish to those who take out private carriage licenses, a single number, painted upon a tin plate that shall not measure more than 2¾ x 2 inches, which number shall be placed upon the hindermost part of the hind axle of the carriage by the owner or owners.

All persons who take out licenses under this subtitle are hereby authorized to provide numbers for their carriages, wagons, and other vehicles, of such design as to them may seem proper, such numbers to conform with their license, the same to be in a conspicuous place; provided, that the number furnished by the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing be nevertheless attached to such carriage or wagon in such place inside the carriage or wagon as he may direct.

All persons availing themselves of the privilege of this section can retain the same number from year to year by annual notice of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing previous to December 20 and those desiring to retain their old numbers may do so by similar notice.

cause or procure a false entry to be made of any such carriage, boat, or scow;

after a true entry, alter the number of his carriage, boat, or scow, being registered; or

not having a license, permit a number to be fixed to or remain on his or her carriage, boat, or scow.

No owner of any carriage shall use the same in carrying or transporting any person or persons within the said City for hire or pay, unless such owner shall:

Such owner shall be subject to all the other rules and regulations herein contained, respecting wagoners, carters, and draymen, and shall be liable to the same forfeitures and penalties upon the noncompliance with or violation of any such rule or regulation.