deposit in any bank or trust company shall not exceed fifty per cent of its paid up capital; shall, with the mayor and city auditor, sign all bonds and certificates of indebtedness issued by the city, shall preserve all bids for loans and papers relating thereto; and shall, if elected, serve as treasurer of the board of sinking funds commissioners.

[Approved by Mayor, April 21, 1921.

CHAPTER 3.

CONCERNING THE REMOVAL OF REFUSE.

Section one of chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter three of the Ordinances of 1916 and chapter two of the Ordinances of 1917, is hereby further amended by striking out in the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth lines the words "grass, garden refuse, leaves," so that the said section, as amended, shall read as follows:

Section 1. The department of public works shall be under the charge of the commissioner of public works, who shall be a civil engineer of recognized standing in his profession; shall construct all streets and sewers; shall have discretionary power as to the grades, materials and other particulars of construction of streets, sidewalks and sewers; shall have charge of and keep clean and in good condition and repair the streets, all sewer systems under the control of the city and the catch-basins in the streets connected with the sewers; shall keep the streets properly watered; shall remove and dispose of, at the expense of the public works department, all refuse from buildings occupied by the city except those under the control of the school committee; shall remove and dispose of the following classes of refuse from dwelling houses and from housekeeping apartments or tenements, when it is placed in yards or areas so as to be easily removed, free of charge to the producers of such refuse and to the owners and occupants of such dwelling houses, apartments and tenements, viz., swill and kitchen garbage, dust and sweepings, ashes from fires used wholly or principally for heating or cooking, waste paper, cardboard, string, packing materials, sticks, rags, waste leather and rubber, boxes, barrels, broken furniture and other similar light or combustible refuse; tins, bottles, jars, broken glass, broken crockery, bones, shells, waste or broken metals and all other similar heavy or incombustible refuse. But the department shall not be required to take any such refuse from hotels, apartment hotels, restaurants, shops, stores, or from any other building whatever except those first hereinbefore enumerated and except buildings occupied by the city. The department shall not so take the refuse of manufacturing or mercantile business, or dead animals, manure, plaster, building materials, earth or stones except from premises occupied by the city, but the department may take and dispose of any refuse upon payment by the producer thereof to the city of such compensation as the commissioner shall from time to time prescribe. The commissioner shall, on the fifteenth day of each month, send to the city auditor detailed bills of all material, tools and

machinery furnished by either of the divisions of the department to any other division or for any special work.

[Approved by Mayor, April 27, 1921.

CHAPTER 4.

CONCERNING THE SALARY OF THE BUDGET COMMISSIONER.

Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter three of the Ordinances of 1917, is hereby amended in the clause establishing the salary of the budget commissioner by striking out the words "five thousand" and inserting in place thereof the words "six thousand." [Approved by Mayor, May 4, 1921.

CHAPTER 5.

CONCERNING THE CONTROL OF BUILDING OPERATIONS.

Chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter 10 of the Ordinances of 1920, is hereby further amended by striking out section 5, and inserting in place thereof the following:

SECTION 5. All work of construction, alteration, removal or tearing down of buildings or structures in the city of Boston shall, hereafter, be under the charge, control and personal supervision of a licensed mechanic, qualified by education, training or experience for the performance of that duty in a manner which shall preserve public safety and conform to the laws, ordinances, rules and regulations relating to the construction, alteration, removal or tearing down of buildings and structures in the city of Boston. [Approved by Mayor, October 5, 1921.

CHAPTER 6.

CONCERNING THE LICENSING AND REGULATION OF JITNEYS. SECTION 1. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of operating a motor vehicle or motor vehicles, except trackless trolley vehicles, so called, upon any public street or way in the city of Boston for the carriage of passengers for hire in such manner as to afford a means of transportation similar to that afforded by a street railway, without first obtaining from the city council a license to engage in such business, and unless such license is in force according to the provisions of and subject. to this ordinance. Such license shall remain in force until revoked by order of the city council. The fee for such license shall be five dollars. Wherever the word "licensee" is used in this ordinance it shall mean the person, firm, or corporation licensed under this section.

SECT. 2. No licensee shall so operate any such motor vehicle except between such termini and over such route and with such stopping places as shall be specified by the city council in the license granted under the

provisions of section one, and, except in case of emergency, the licensee shall not deviate from the specifications of said license without the approval of the city council.

SECT. 3. No licensee shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less, or different compensation for the transportation of passengers or for any service in connection therewith, than the rates, fares and charges applicable to such transportation as specified in the license granted by the city council.

SECT. 4. No such license shall be issued or become operative until the licensee shall have filed with the city clerk either a bond of a surety company approved by the city treasurer, conditioned to pay any final judgment against the principal named therein for any injury to person or property, or damage for causing the death of any person, by reason of any negligence or unlawful act on the part of the principal named in said bond, his or its agents, employees or drivers, in the use or operation of any such vehicle, or an automobile liability insurance policy of the commercial type, accompanied by a bond with surety approved by the city treasurer, conditioned to make payment as required by such policy even though the insurance company receives no notice or information of the accident causing the damage or injury from the assured, his employees, agents or servants. The bond, or the insurance policy and the bond accompanying such policy, shall be in a sufficient sum to cover each and every vehicle operated by the licensee in accordance with the following schedule:

$5,000

For a vehicle having a seating capacity of five persons or less $5,000. For a vehicle having a seating capacity of six or more persons and $500 additional for each passenger seat in excess of five. Provided, however, that a bond, or an insurance policy and bond, of $25,000 shall be deemed sufficient to cover all the vehicles operated by any one licensee.

SECT. 5. No person shall drive, operate, or be in charge of any such motor vehicle in any public street, way, or place, without first obtaining, in addition to the chauffeur's licerse issued by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, a special annual license from the street commissioners, and unless both of said licenses are in force. The special license granted by the street commissioners shall be upon such terms and conditions as the street commissioners may deem proper to impose and shall be granted only to a person licensed under section one of this ordinance or to an employee of a person, firm or corporation so licensed.

SECT. 6. No licensee shall operate by himself or by his agents or employees any such motor vehicle unless it has been inspected and licensed annually by the street commissioners. The fee for such license shall be five dollars for each vehicle.

SECT. 7. Every licensee shall file with the street commissioners:

(a.) A schedule of operation in conformity with section twelve hereof, showing the effective date thereof, the time of arrival and departure from and at all termini, and the time of departure from important intermediate points.

(b.) A schedule or tariff showing the passenger fares to be charged under the license granted by the city council between the several points or localities and the principal intermediate points to be served.

(c.) The seating capacity, according to its trade rating, of each motor vehicle which it is proposed to operate.

If the motor vehicle has been adapted for use as a bus either by converting a freight-carrying truck into a passenger-carrying vehicle, or by reconstructing, modifying or adding to the body or seating arrangements of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle, a statement of the seating capacity shall be added.

SECT. 8. No such motor vehicle shall be used or operated without a printed sign thereon stating the termini of the route, the fare to be charged, and the license number, which sign shall be so printed and attached to the motor vehicle as to be plainly visible to persons on the street, or without a printed sign thereon showing the schedule of service filed and in effect at the time, which sign shall be so printed and attached to the said motor vehicle as to be plainly visible to passengers boarding such motor vehicle.

SECT. 9. The license issued for such motor vehicle shall designate the number of passengers, exclusive of the operator, the licensee is authorized to carry in said vehicle, and no person driving or in charge of said vehicle shall take on or suffer or permit any more persons to ride or to be carried thereon at any one time than the number designated in the license, or permit any person to stand inside or to stand or sit upon any running board, steps, fender, dash or hood thereof, or permit any person to ride on such motor vehicle outside the body thereof; provided, however, that in addition to the number of passengers which said motor vehicle by the terms of its license is permitted to carry, children under seven years of age may be carried therein, in arms, or seated on the laps of adult persons accompanying them, but no passenger with a child in arms or seated on the lap shall be permitted on any front seat of the vehicle.

SECT. 10. The licensee shall not reconstruct, materially alter, modify, or add to the body or seating arrangements of any such motor vehicle after the license thereof is issued without first applying for and receiving the consent of the street commissioners.

SECT. 11. No license for such motor vehicle shall be transferable or applicable to any other motor vehicle than that specified therein, provided, however, that the street commissioners may revise said license in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, so that under said license as revised another motor vehicle may be substituted for one previously covered.

SECT. 12. The schedule of operation filed by the licensee with his application for said license shall provide for the regular operation of a motor vehicle between the termini and over the route designated in the license. The licensee shall regularly operate a motor vehicle in substantial accordance with the schedule of operation filed and in effect at the time, except in cases of accidents, breakdowns, or other controlling emergency, shall operate such motor vehicle to the terminus of the route before turning around, and shall not operate nor permit to be operated any such motor

vehicle off or away from the route stated and fixed in the license for the operation of such motor vehicle except in case of controlling emergency. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the operation, in addition to the service described in the schedule on file and in effect at the time, of special or extra trips over said route and between said termini during certain hours or on special occasions.

SECT. 13. No person operating any motor vehicle so licensed shall refuse to carry any person offering himself or herself at any regular stopping place for carriage, unless the seats of such vehicle are fully occupied, or unless such person is in an intoxicated condition, or conducting himself in a boisterous or disorderly manner, or is using profance language.

SECT. 14. No motor vehicle so licensed shall be operated from one half hour after sunset till one half hour before sunrise, with the top and curtains of said vehicle up, or while said vehicle is otherwise enclosed, unless there be sufficient light provided to adequately light the whole of the interior of said vehicle; and all motor vehicles so licensed with a seating capacity of more than seven passengers shall come to a full stop immediately before crossing the tracks of any railroad at grade.

SECT. 15. Every such motor vehicle shall be equipped with a suitable horn or other similar warning device, with a standard speedometer, and with a liquid fire extinguisher of a design or type approved by the street commissioners, and such horn, speedometer and fire extinguisher shall be kept in satisfactory operating condition at all times. Every such motor vehicle shall, when leaving either terminus, be equipped with at least one extra serviceable tire, and shall at all times carry and maintain in good working order a set of skid chains, which shall be applied to the rear wheels when such vehicle is operated in any street or public place where there is snow or ice, or during other weather conditions when the application of such chains is necessary to prevent skidding.

SECT. 16. No person operating any motor vehicle so licensed shall collect fares, make change or take on or discharge passengers while such vehicle is in motion; nor shall he have a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe in his possession while any passenger is being carried therein, nor drink any intoxicating beverage or use morphine, cocaine, opium or other harmful drug of any kind, or be under the influence thereof while engaged in operating such vehicle.

SECT. 17. Every licensee shall immediately report fully, in writing, to the city clerk, the time, place, and cause of any fatal accident or any injury to a passenger or other person, and of any accident resulting in substantial damage to property, in which he or any motor vehicle or operator under his control is involved.

SECT. 18. The street commissioners may suspend or revoke any license granted for such motor vehicle, and any license issued by them to any person to drive or operate such vehicles, for violation of any law of the commonwealth in relation to the operation of motor vehicles, or for violation of any ordinance or street traffic regulations, or for violation of any of the rules, restrictions, requirements or regulations herein prescribed, or for