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:appear annually at the office of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing; have entered in a book kept for that purpose:the name and place of abode; the description of every carriage, boat, or scow owned by the owner or owners; and the number thereon to be affixed; and take out a license containing his or her number, and signed by the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, with the City Seal affixed to it. 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. City Code, 1893, art. 8, §29 1927, art. 4, §117 1950, art. 38, §49 1966, art. 31, §62 1976/83, art. 15, §29 Ord. 1891-022 Ord. 66-887 Ord. 75-881 Ord. 99-526