22.—Check string.

The owner of any licensed vehicle shall provide sufficient check string for the same, and the driver, when driving, shall have the check string fastened to his hand or arm if required.

23.—Driver or conductor must not smoke on carriage.

No driver shall smoke any pipe or cigar while driving or attending upon any licensed vehicle, nor shall any passenger smoke inside any vehicle without permission of the other passengers.

24.—Driver must be in attendance upon carriage.

The driver of every licensed vehicle shall be constantly attendant on the same when plying on any public place or otherwise engaged for hire.

25.—Carriage must be provided with lights at night.

Every licensed vehicle plying for hire, or engaged after sunset and before sunrise, shall be provided with proper carriage lights, and the driver shall keep the same lighted while so plying or engaged for hire.

26. Deceased Human Bodies.

No owner or driver of any licensed vehicle shall carry or permit to be carried in or upon any such vehicle any coffin containing the deceased body of a person exceeding five years of age.

27.—Vicious horse to be muzzled.

The driver of any vehicle shall place a muzzle upon the head of any vicious horse employed by him, and keep the same thereon whilst on the stand waiting for hire.

28. Forage Bags and Winkers to be used.

Every driver who shall feed any horse whilst on the stand, or in any public place waiting for hire, shall use a nose-bag to contain the forage, and shall not remove such horse’s winkers during the time of feeding.

29. No person to ride on box without permission of hirer.

No driver of any vehicle shall allow any person to ride on the box, or in or upon any part of such vehicle without the permission of the person hiring the same.

30. Agreement for more than legal fare not binding.

No agreement whatever made with the owner or driver of any vehicle for the payment of more than his proper fare, as fixed and limited by law, shall be binding or held to authorise any overcharge whatsoever; and in case any person shall be required to pay and shall pay to such owner or driver, whether in pursuance of any agreement or not, any sum exceeding the proper fare, the person paying the same shall be entitled, on complaint made against such owner or driver before any Justice, to recover back the sum paid beyond the proper fare; and such owner or driver shall further, for such exaction, be liable to a penalty for an offence against the provisions hereof.

31. Articles left in Carriages—how disposed of.

The owner or driver of every licensed vehicle wherein any property whatever shall be left by any person hiring or using such vehicle shall, within eighteen hours next after the same shall have been so left, restore such property in the state in which the same shall have been found to the owner thereof; or, if the owner cannot be traced, shall deposit such property in the Town Clerk’s Office; and if any owner or driver shall make any default herein, he shall be liable to a penalty for an offence against the provisions of this bye-law. And when any such property shall be deposited as aforesaid, the officer receiving the same shall give an acknowledgement to the depositor and make an entry and record thereof, and the property so recovered shall be returned to the person who shall prove ownership to the satisfaction of the Town Clerk; such person previously paying all expenses incurred, together with such sum to the person who shall have been actually driving the vehicle, or shall have been employed in or about it, and having found the property shall deposit the same as herein directed, and with reference to the value of the property the said Council shall award. And if any property so found and deposited shall not be claimed by the owner thereof within one year after the date of deposit, the property being advertised in such manner as the said Council may direct, such property shall be sold by auction, and the proceeds thereof paid over to the Town Clerk in aid of the Town Fund, after deducting such sum as the said Council may award to the person who shall have been actually driving the vehicle or shall have been employed in or about it and, having found the property, shall deposit the same as herein directed.

32. Copy of Bye-laws to be given to Owner and Driver.

Every owner licensed under the provisions hereof shall, at the time of obtaining his license, have delivered to him without any charge a printed copy of this bye-law, and having the name of the owner or driver to whom the same is so delivered and the number of the license written distinctly thereupon, and every such owner or driver respectively shall at all times have such copy or some other copy of this bye-law ready to produce, and shall upon request produce the same for perusal to any person using or hiring the vehicle owned or driven by him.

33. Inspector of Hackney Carriages.

Such person or persons as may from time to time be in that behalf appointed by the said Council, shall be the Inspector or Inspectors during the pleasure of the said Council, of all vehicles plying for hire within the said town, and such Inspector or Inspectors shall from time to time examine all such vehicles, and shall at all times see that, as far as possible, this Bye-law is duly observed.

34. Inspector must not be obstructed.

No owner nor driver of any vehicle, or any other person, shall obstruct any such Inspector in the execution of his duties.

35. Penalties.

For every offence against any provision of this bye-law, the offender shall upon conviction be liable to and shall pay to the Corporation of the town of Oamaru a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

36. Interpretation Clause.

The words “Town Clerk” where used in this bye-law shall be understood to mean the Town Clerk of the town of Oamaru. The word “owner” shall signify every person possessed of a beneficial interest in any vehicle, and whenever in this bye-law with reference to any person, animal, matter or thing, any word or words is or are used importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, yet such word or words shall be understood to include several persons or animals as well as one person or animal, females as well as males, bodies corporate or politic as well as individuals, and several matters and things as well as one matter or thing, unless it be otherwise specially provided or there be something in the subject or context repugnant thereto.

37. Vehicles not plying publicly not affected thereby.

Nothing in this bye-law contained shall apply, or be held to apply, to vehicles which shall be let to hire only when previously ordered or bespoken at the residence of their owners, and which shall never be permitted to ply for hire in any street or place off the premises of their respective owners, or to the owners or drivers of such vehicles.