HVERsiTY OF uwoti mm u). • ^ ISIS [Document 105—1921.] .'MM iiUUnV 'I 'I. 'i i- i ■■ SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF 1914 ( . • ! i ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BOSTON PASSED IN THE MUNICIPAL YEARS 1915-1921 m 'IF 'HF AUG 2 3 19?'!- UNIVERSITY of iLUNUlS ^ BOST(DT^I^ (D ©HJDITA JD. K 16 SO. CITY OF BOSTON PRINTING DEPARTMENT 1922 City of Boston, Office of the City Clerk, February 6, 1922. I hereby certify that this document contains true copies of all Ordinances of the City of Boston passed in the municipal years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. Attest: City Clerk. 3 .’9yA--_ 2_; fH£ LIBKART OF [Hf AU6 2 8 1924 UNIVERSITY nc n linoi ordinances of 1915. CHAPTER 1. Concerning the Quarantine Service. All the powers and duties of the board of health ^ relative to the maintenance of the quarantine service ‘ for the port of Boston shall be abolished upon the date of the execution of a lease by the City of Boston to the United States of America of all property used in the said service. * [Approved March 30, 1915. CHAPTER 2.t T < 3 - Concerning the City Planning Department. Chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section four by striking out the word ‘Hhree’^ and inserting in place thereof the word ^^five/^ so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Sect. 4. The board shall serve without pay, and may expend, for 'the salary of its secretary and for such other expenses as may be necessary in the performance of its duties, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars per annum. [Approved April 10, 1915. CHAPTER 3. Concerning Hawkers and Peddlers. Chapter forty of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section nineteen of said chapter by striking out the whole of said section, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 19. No person shall hawk or peddle any fruits or vegetables or any of the articles enumerated in * Lease approved by the City Council May 24, 1915, to take effect June 1, 1915. t Amended by Chapter 5, Ordinances of 1916. 4 City Document No. 105 . chapter 345 of the Acts of 1906 and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, until he has been assigned a number by the health commissioner, and until he has recorded with said commissioner his name and residence and, if he hawks or peddles articles which are sold by weight or measure, a certificate from the sealer of weights and measures that all weights, measures and balances to be used by him have been properly inspected and sealed. The presence of unsealed weights or measures on the team, cart or person of such hawker or peddler shall terminate permission to hawk or peddle under such registration. No person shall hawk or peddle any fruits or vege¬ tables until he has obtained a license therefor from the health commissioner, unless he is engaged in the pursuit of agriculture or unless such articles are the product of his own labor or of the labor of his family. The health commissioner is hereby authorized to grant licenses to hawk or peddle fruits and vegetables to persons who have complied with the foregoing require¬ ments, such licenses to be for the term of one year from the date of issue, and to charge therefor a license fee of five dollars per annum. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to minors licensed by the mayor and city council, unless such minors hawk or peddle fruits or vegetables. [Approved October 20, 1915. CHAPTER 4. Concerning Hawkers and Peddlers. Chapter 40 of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section 21 by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following: Sect. 21. No hawker or peddler shall carry or convey articles enumerated in chapter 345 of the Acts of 1906 and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, in a manner tending to injure or disturb the public health or comfort, or except in vehicles or recep¬ tacles which are neat and clean and do not leak, and which have printed on them in letters and figures at least two inches in height the name of the person selling Ordinances of 1915 . 5 and the number given him by the health commissioner, and which are approved monthly by the health com¬ missioner. [Approved November 15y 1915. CHAPTER .5. * Concerning Salaries of First Assistant Assessors. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914 is hereby amended in the clause estab¬ lishing the salaries of assessors by striking out the words ‘‘The first assistant assessors, each ten dollars per day for street work, not to exceed forty days, and six hun¬ dred dollars for office work, including investigation of supplementary assessments in accordance with chapter 400, Acts of 1901,” and inserting in place thereof the following: “The first assistant assessors, each six hun¬ dred dollars for street wojk and preparation therefor, and six hundred dollars for services on dooming board and for work on abatements and investigations.” This ordinance shall take effect April 1, 1916. [Approved February 5, 1916. * Amended by Chapter 1, Ordinances of 1920. 6 City Document No. 105 . ORDINANCES OF 1916. CHAPTER 1. Concerning Use of Streets. Section 36 of chapter 40 of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by adding thereto the fol¬ lowing words: ‘^but nothing in this section shall be construed to curtail, abridge, or limit the right or oppor¬ tunity of any person to exercise the right of peaceful persuasion guaranteed by Statutes 1913, chapter 690, or to curtail, abridge, or limit the intendment of any statute of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” so that said section shall read as follows: Section 36. No person shall, in a street, unreason¬ ably obstruct the free passage of foot-travellers^ or wilfully and unreasonably saunter or loiter for more than seven minutes after being directed by a police officer to move on, but nothing in this section shall be construed to curtail, abridge, or limit the right or opportunity of any person to exercise the right of peaceful persuasion guaranteed by Statutes 1913, chap¬ ter 690, or to curtail, abridge, or limit the intendment of any statute of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [A'p'proved March 9, 1916. CHAPTER 2. Concerning Agent Under Workmen’s Compensation Act. The salary and expenses of the person designed to act as the agent for the payment of workmen’s compen¬ sation under chapter 244 of the General Acts of 1915 shall be chargeable to the appropriation for the reserve fund. [Approved March 21, 1916. Ordinances of 1916 . 7 CHAPTER 3. Concerning Certain Items of City Income. Section six of chapter six of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out in the last three lines of said section the words ‘ ^and shall add such amount to the several appropriations for the divisions furnishing such materials^ tools, or machinery,’’ and inserting in place thereof the words ^‘and shall credit such amount to the general revenue of the city, unless such materials, tools or machinery have been furnished by the water service, in which case the amount charged shall be credited to the water income.” Section one of chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, is hereby amended by striking out in lines 33, 34 and 35 of said section the words ‘^all moneys so received to be used in paying the expenses incurred by the department in such removal.” Section nine of chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out of said section the last paragraph, which reads as follows: ‘‘All amounts paid to the city under the provisions of this section shall be credited to, and used as a part of, the appropriation for the public works department.” [Approved March 28, 1916. CHAPTER 4. To Prevent Unnecessary Noise in the Vicinity of Hospitals. Section 1. The commissioner of public works shall at the request of the hospital authorities, place and maintain a sign or signs displaying the words, “Warning! Hospital—Make No Noise” at such points as he may determine on public streets and places in the vicinity of hospitals accommodating more than fifty patients. No foot traveller, driver of a vehicle, motorman of a street car or operator of a motor vehicle shall make any unnecessary noise in the vicinity of such hospitals so as to unreasonably dis¬ turb patients therein. 8 City Document No 105. Sect. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. Sect. 3. This ordinance shall take effect on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and sixteen. [Approved April 22, 1916. CHAPTER 5. Concerning the City Planning Department. Chapter twelve of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter two of the Ordinances of 1915, is hereby further amended in section four by striking out the words “five thousand’’ and inserting in place thereof the words “seven thousand five hundred,” so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows; Section 4. The board shall serve without pay, and may expend for the salary of its secretary and for such other expenses as may be necessary in the performance of its duties a sum not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum. [Approved August 3, 1916. CHAPTER 6.* Concerning the Salary of the Chief Officer at THE County Jail. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section six, in the clause establishing the salary of the chief officer connected with the county jail, by striking out the words “eighteen hundred dollars,” and inserting in place thereof the words “two thousand dollars.” [Approved August 11, 1916. CHAPTER 7. Concerning the use of the Sinking Funds. Section 1. Section two of chapter thirty-one of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out said section and substituting therefor the following new section: * Amended by Chapter 1, Ordinances of 1917. Ordinances of 1916. 9 Sect. 2. Whenever the amount of any sinking fund exceeds the entire amount of the debt for the payment of which it was established, the commissioners shall use the surplus for the purchase and cancellation of any out¬ standing bonds of the city; and whenever the amount of any sinking fund is greater than is required with its accumulations to meet its debt at maturity the surplus of such amount may be used by the commissioners to obtain and cancel any part of such debt. The proceeds of all sales of land and buildings, other than school lands, shall be applied by the commissioners to the reduction and cancellation of any part of any outstanding debt of the city. [Approved November 10, 1916. CHAPTER 8. Establishing the Municipal Standard and City Flag. Section 1. The municipal standard of the city of Boston, which is hereby established, shall be made of silk of the colors designated, namely: Continental blue and buff, and shall be five feet in length and three and one half feet in width, or in proportion thereto. Provided, that a city flag of like design and colors may be made of bunting for outdoor display, the size of such bunting flag to depend upon the place of display. The body of the standard shall be blue, as specified, with the official city seal embroidered in the center; and two rings of white shall encircle the seal. The reverse of the municipal standard shall bear a representation of the Trimountain. The city flag shall have no reverse except the seal showing through the bunting, the seal to be painted on or woven in the fabric. The municipal standard shall have a fringe of Continental buff; the city flag to be without fringe. Sect. 2. The colors herein specified shall be the official colors for the city of Boston, namely; Continental blue and Continental buff. Sect. 3. The city flag shall be displayed on City Hall and may be displayed on Boston Common on occasions when the national flag is ordered displayed. Sect. 4. The municipal standard of silk may be carried or displayed in parades, at reviews, and on other official occasions when the mayor is present and when 10 City Document No. 105. directed by him. Boston organizations may have copies of the municipal standard on approval by the mayor. Sect. 5. Neither the municiapl standard nor the city flag nor any reproduction shall be used for any commercial purpose, and no advertising device shall be placed upon it or used in connection with it; and the municipal flag or standard shall not be used for any purpose not authorized by this ordinance, except with the permission of the mayor. Sect. 6. Any person violating any provision of sec¬ tion five of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence, and not only the person actually doing the prohibited thing, but also his employer and every other person concerned in so doing shall be punished by such fine. Sect. 7. The city messenger shall be custodian of the municipal standard and of the city flags that are the property of the city. Sect. 8. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved January 30, 1917. Ordinances of 1917. 11 ORDINANCES OF 1917. CHAPTER 1. * Concerning the Salaries of Officers at the County Jail. Section six of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter six of the Ordinances of 1916, is hereby further amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following: Sect. 6. The officers of the county of Suffolk shall be paid the salaries and allowances provided by law. ' The officers connected with the county jail shall be paid annual salaries as follows: The chief officer, twenty-one hundred dollars. The physician appointed by the sheriff, fifteen hundred dollars. The steward, the first inside officer and the clerk, each fourteen hundred and fifty dollars. The second and third inside officers, each thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. The other regularly employed officers, each thirteen hundred dollars. The watchmen and other necessary assistants, each twelve hundred dollars. [Approved June 12, 1917. CHAPTER 2.t / Concerning Removal of Refuse. Section 1. Section one of chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter three of the Ordinances of 1916, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word watered in the tenth line of said section, the following words: shall * Amended by Chapter 2, Ordinances of 1918, and Chapter 5, Ordinances of 1919. t Amended by Chapter 3, Ordinances of 1921. 12 City Document No. 105. 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 df the school committee.’’ Sect. 2. This ordinance shall take effect February 1, 1918. [Approved July 2^, 19.17, CHAPTER 3.* Establishing the Budget Department. Section 1. There shall be a budget department under the charge of a budget commissioner who shall, under the direction of the mayor, prepare in segregated form the annual and all supplementary budgets to be submitted by the mayo’ to the city council. The com¬ missioner shall further prepare under the direction of the mayor the form of estimate sheets to be used by each officer, board, commission and department, and each division of a department, for which the city appro¬ priates money, and shall also prepare the form of monthly report of such officer, board, commission and department, and each division thereof, showing expendi¬ tures to date of all appropriations by item. The com¬ missioner shall report to the mayor on all subsequent revisions of the items in the budget. Sect. 2. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by inserting after the clause fixing the salaries of the assessors the following words — The budget commissioner, five thousand dollars. [Approved July 24, 1917. CHAPTER 4. Concerning the Hours of Labor of Firemen. Section 1. Chapter sixteen of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914 is hereby amended in section one by striking out the whole of said section, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 1. The fire depart¬ ment shall be under the charge of the fire commissioner, who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties * Amended by Chapter 4, Ordinances of 1921. Ordinances of 1917. 13 provided by statute; and shall appoint a chief of depart¬ ment, deputy chiefs, district chiefs, engineers and other firemen, whose hours of labor for the city shall not exceed two days out of three, and who shall be allowed for meals during the two days on duty three periods of one hour each. Sect. 2. This ordinance shall take effect on the first day of February, 1918. [Approved August 22^ 1917. CHAPTER 5. Concerning the Trade of Bootblacking. No female minor sixteen year's of age or over shall engage in the trade of bootblacking, and no person shall employ any such female minor in such trade. [Approved December 2Jf.j 1917. CHAPTER 6. Concerning the Salary of the City Clerk and of THE Assistant City Clerk. Section 1. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section five, in the clause establishing the salary of the city clerk and of the assistant city clerk, by striking out the words ‘‘five thousand’’ and inserting in place the;reof the words “six thousand,” and by striking out the words “thirty- eight hundred” and inserting in place thereof the words “forty-five hundred.” Sect. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with the first day of January, 1918. [Approved December SI, 1917. 14 City Document No. 105 . ORDINANCES OF 1918. CHAPTER 1. Concerning Junk and Second-hand Articles. Section 1. Section ninety of chapter forty of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by adding after the word person/’ in the eighth line, the words ^^or junk collector.” [Approved April 17, 1918. CHAPTER 2.* Concerning the Salaries of Officers at the County Jail. Section six of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter six of the Ordinances of 1916 and chapter one of the Ordinances of 1917, is hereby further amended by striking out the whole of said section, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 6. The officers of the county of Suffolk shall be paid the salaries and allowances provided by law. The officers connected with the county jail shall be paid salaries, as follows: The chief officer, twenty-one hundred dollars per annum. The physician appointed by the sheriff, fifteen hundred dollars per annum. The steward, the first inside officer and the clerk, each fourteen hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The second and third inside officers, each thirteen hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The other regularly employed officers, each thirteen hundred dollars per annum. The assistant clerk, twelve hundred dollars per annum. The watchmen and other necessary assistants, each twelve hundred dollars per annum. * Amended bj^ Chapter 5, Ordinances of 1919, Ordinances of 1918 . 15 The watchman-engineer in charge, thirty dollars per week. The watchmen-engineers, each twenty-eight dollars per week. [Approved May 29, 1918, CHAPTER 3. Establishing the Transit Department of the City OF Boston. Section 1. The transit department shall be under the charge of a board of three commissioners, appointed by the mayor, for the term of one year each. The chairman shall be designated by the mayor and shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year. The other members shall serve without pay. The board shall appoint a secre^tary, engineers, subordinates and employees, define their powers and duties, and fix the amount of their compensation. Sect. 2. The board shall exercise the powers and perform the duties formerly exercised and performed by the Boston Transit Commission, as defined by chapter 185 of the special acts of the year 1918. [Approved July 2, 1918. 16 City Document No. 105 . ORDINANCES OF 1919. CHAPTER 1.* Concerning the Salaries of the Deputy Sealers of Weights and Measures. Section 1. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1919 is hereby amended in section five in the clause establishing the salaries of the deputy sealers of weights and measures, by striking out the words ‘‘sixteen hundred” and inserting in place thereof the words “seventeen hundred.” Sect. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with May 30, 1919. [Ap'proved June 10^ 1919. CHAPTER 2. Consolidating the Wire Department with the Fire Department. Section 1. The wire department is hereby consoli¬ dated with and made a part of the fire department, and the subordinates and employees of the wire department are hereby transferred to the wire division of the fire department hereinafter created. The fire commissioner shall exercise the powers and perform the duties con¬ ferred and imposed by law upon the wire commissioner. The powers, duties and appropriations of the wire department are hereby transferred to the fire department. Sect. 2. The fire commissioner shall establish in the fire department a division to be known as the wire division, and the wire division shall be in charge of a deputy appointed by the fire commissioner, who under the direction of the fire commissioner shall carry out the provisions and requirements of law relating to wires and electrical appliances and the inspection of wires in the city of Boston. The salary of the deputy shall be fixed by the fire commissioner, subject to the appro^^l of the mayor. * Amended by Chapter 2, Ordinances of 1920. Ordinances of 1919. 17 Sect. 3. The hours of labor prescribed for, and the periods for meals allowed to, firemen under the pro¬ visions of chapter sixteen of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter four of the Ordinances of 1917, shall not apply to the deputy, subordinates and employees of the wire division of the fire department herein created. Sect. 4. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section five in the clause establishing the salary of the fire commissioner by striking out the w^ords ‘‘five thousand^’ and inserting in place thereof the words “seventy-five hundred.’^ Sect. 5. Chapter thirty-eight of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914 is hereby repealed. [Approved June 10, 1919. CHAPTER 3.* Concerning the Licensing and Regulation of Jitneys. Section 1. No person, firm or corporation S'hall engage in the business of operating a niotor 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 coun¬ cil. 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 speci¬ fied by the city council in the license granted under the provisions of section one, and, except in case of emer¬ gency, the licensee shall not deviate from the specifica¬ tions of said license without the approval of the city council. * Amended by Chapter 4, Ordinances of 1919, and Chapter 4, Ordinances of 1920, and re-enacted by Chapter 6, Ordinances of 1921. 18 City Document No. 105. 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 a bond of a surety company approved by the city treasurer, conditioned to pay any final judg¬ ment 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. The bond shall be in a sum sufficient to cover each and every vehicle oper¬ ated by the licensee in accordance with the following schedule: For a vehicle having a seating capacity of five persons or less — $5,000. Fo^ a vehicle having a seating capacity of six or more persons .— $5,000 and $500 additional for each passenger seat in excess of five. Provided, however, that a 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 license issued by the Massachusetts High¬ way Comniission, a special annual license from the police commissioner for the city of Boston, and unless both of said licenses are in force. The special license granted by the police commissioner shall be upon such terms and conditions as the police commissioner 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 police commissioner for the city of Boston. The fee for such license shall be five dollars for each vehicle. Sect. 7. Every licensee shall file with the police commissioner for the city of Boston: Ordinances of 1919. 19 (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 adopted for use as a bus either by converting a freight-carrying truck into a passenger-carrying vehicle, or by reconstructing, modi¬ fying 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 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 passen¬ ger with a child in arms or seated on the lap shall be permitted on any front seat of the vehicle. S^CT. 10. The licensee shall not reconstruct, mate- 20 City Document No. 105. rially 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 police commissioner for the city of Boston. 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 police commissioner may revise said license in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, so that under said license as revised another motor vehicle may be substi¬ tuted 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 oper¬ ate 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 opera¬ tion of such motor vehicle except in case of control¬ ling 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 profane language. Sect. 14. No motor vehicle so licensed shall be oper¬ ated 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 immedi¬ ately before crossing the tracks of any railroad at grade. Ordinances of 1919. 21 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 police commissioner, 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 applications of such chains is neces¬ sary 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 sub¬ stantial damage to property, in which he or any motor vehicle or operator under his control is involved. Sect. 18. The police commissioner for the city of Boston may suspend or revoke any license granted for such motor vehicle, and any license issued by him to any person to drive or operate such vehicles, for viola¬ tion of any law of the commonwealth in relation to the operation of motor vehicles, or for violation of any ordinance or street traffic regulation, or for violation of any of the rules, restrictions, requirements or regu¬ lations herein prescribed, or for any other cause deemed by said police commissioner, in the exercise of reasonable discretion, to be sufficient. Sect. 19. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each offense. Sect. 20. This ordinance shall take effect on and after August 15, 1919. [Approved August 7, 1919. 22 City Document No. 105. CHAPTER 4. Concerning the Licensing and Regulation of Jitneys. Chapter three of the Ordinances of 1919, concerning the licensing of jitneys, is hereby amended by striking out section seven, and by striking out in the other sections of said ordinance the words ^The police com¬ missioner for the city of Boston” and the words ‘The police commissioner” wherever said words occur, and inserting in place thereof the words “the street com¬ missioners.” [Approved September 17, 1919. CHAPTER 5.* Concerning the Salaries of Officers at the County Jail. Section six of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter six of the Ordinances of 1916 and chapter one of the Ordinances of 1917 and chapter two of the Ordinances of 1918, is hereby further amended by striking out the whole of said section, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 6. The officers of the county of Suffolk shall be paid the salaries and allow^ances provided by law. The officers connected with the county jail shall be paid salaries, as follows: The chief officer, twenty-three hundred and ten dollars per annum. The physician appointed by the sheriff, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The first inside officer and the clerk, each fifteen hundred and ninety-five dollars per annum. The steward, fifteen hundred and seventy dollars per annum. The second, third and fourth inside officers, each fourteen hundred dollar^ per annum. The other regularly employed officers, each fourteen hundred dollars per annum. The assistant clerk, twelve hundred dollars per annum. * Amended by Chapters 3 and 5 of the Ordinances of 1920. Ordinances of 1919. 23 The watchman and other necessary assistants, each thirteen hundred and twenty dollars per annum. The watchman-engineer in charge, thirty-seven dollars per week. The watchmen-engineers operating, thirty-three dollars per week. [Approved October 8, 1919. - CHAPTER 6. Concerning the Salary of the Superintendent of Supplies. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section five in the clause establish¬ ing the salary of the superintendent of supplies by striking out the word ^Three” and inserting in place thereof the word ‘Tix.” [Approved January SI, 1920. 24 City Document No 105 . ORDINANCES OF 1920. CHAPTER 1. Concerning the Salaries of the First Assistant Assessors. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914, as amended by chapter five of the Or¬ dinances of 1915, is hereby further amended in the clause establishing the salaries of assessors by striking out the words ‘Ahe first assistant assessors, each six hundred dollars for street work and preparation there¬ for, and six hundred dollars for services on dooming board and for work on abatements and investigation,” and inserting in place thereof the following: t^The first assistant assessors, each seven hundred and fifty dollars for street work and preparation therefor, and seven hundred and fifty dollars for services on dooming board and for work on abatements and investigations.’^ This ordinances shall take effect April 1, 1920. [Approved April I 4 , 1920. CHAPTER 2. Concerning the Salaries of the Deputy Sealers OF Weights and Measures. Section 1. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section five by striking out the clause establishing the salaries of the sealers of weights and measures and substituting the following clause: The sealer of weights and measures, three thousand dollars, and the twelve deputy sealers of vneights and measures each such salary not exceeding nineteen hundred dollars and not less than sixteen hundred dollars as may be fixed by the sealer of weights and measures with the approval of the mayor. 81ECT. 2. This ordinance shall take effect beginning with April 2, 1920. [Approved April 1/}., 1920. Ordinances of 1920. 25 CHAPTER 3.* Concerning the Salaries of Officers at the County Jail. Section six of chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, as amended by chapter six of the Ordinances of 1916, and chapter one of the Ordinances of 1917, and chapter two of the ordinances of 1918, and chapter five of the Ordinances of 1919, is hereby further amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following: Sect. 6. The officers of the county of Suffolk shall be paid the salaries and allowances provided by law. The officers connected with the county jail shall be paid salaries, as follows: The chief officer, twenty-five hundred dollars per annum. The physician appointed by the sheriff, eighteen hundred dollars per annum. The chief clerk, seventeen hundred dollars per annum. The assistant clerk, fourteen hundred dollars per annum. The first inside officer, eighteen hundred dollars per annum. The steward, eighteen hundred dollars per annum. The second, third and fourth inside officers, each sixteen hundred dollars per annum. The five regularly employed officers, each sixteen hundred dollars per annum. All other officers and necessary assistants, each fifteen hundred dollars per annum. The watchman-engineer in charge, forty dollars per week. The watchmen-engineers operating, thirty-six dollars per week. The matron, one thousand dollars per annum. The first assistant matron, nine hundred dollars per annum. The five assistant matrons, each seven hundred dollars per annum. Two chaplains, each six hundred and sixty dollars per annum. One chaplain, two hundred and sixty-four dollars per annum. [Approved April 14, 1920, ’ Amended by Chapter 5, Ordinances of 1920. 26 City Document No. 105 . CHAPTER 4.* Concerning the Licensing and Regulation of Jitneys. Section four of chapter three of the Ordinances of 1919 is hereby amended by striking out said section and substituting the following: Sect. 4. No such license shall be issued or become operative until the licensee s^hall 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 mak^e 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: 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 — $5,000 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. [Approved April I 4 , 1920. CHAPTER 5. Concerning the Salaries of Officers at the County Jail. Chapter three of the Ordinances of 1920, relative to the salaries of officers at the County Jail, is hereby * Rc-enacted in Chapter 6, Ordinances of 1921. Ordinances of 1920 . 27 amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: ^‘This ordinance shall take effect April 1, 1920.” [A'pproved May 6, 1920. CHAPTER 6. Concerning Sweeping of Sidewalks. Chapter forty of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section forty by adding at the end of said section the following words: Nor shall any person between the hours of eight o’clock a. m. and seven o’clock p. m., in that portion of the city proper lying north and east of Kneeland, Eliot, Charles, Beacon, Bowdoin, Green and Leverett streets, sweep any sidewalk unless such sidewalk is in such condition that dust will not be raised by such sweeping. [Ap'proved June 16, 1920. CHAPTER 7. Establishing the Institutions Department. Section 1. The Penal Institutions Department, the Boston Infirmary Department, the Children’s Institu¬ tions Department and the Institutions Registration Department are hereby abolished. All the rights, powers, duties and obligations of the said departments and of any officer, board or member thereof, are hereby transferred to and shall hereafter be exercised and per¬ formed by the Institutions Department established by this ordinance which shall be the lawful successor of the said departments. All employees of the said depart¬ ments shall as temporary appointees of the Institutions Department continue to perform their usual duties upon the same terms and conditions as heretofore until removed, appointed to positions in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, or transferred to other departments. Sect. 2. The Institutions Department shall be under the supervision and control of a commissioner to be known as the Commissioner of Institutions who shall be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with the pro¬ visions governing appointments in chapter 486 of the 28 City Document No. 105. Acts of 1909 and acts in amendment thereof, and who shall receive an annual salary of S7,500. Sect. 3. The Commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department, and may organize said department in such divisions as he may find necessary for its proper conduct. Sect. 4. The Mayor, subject to the provisions of Special Acts 1919, chapter 222, section 2, may appoint, and fix the compensation of, not more than two deputy commissioners, who shall act directly under the Com¬ missioner of Institutions and perform such duties as the said Commissioner shall direct. Sect. 5. So much of this ordinance as relates to the appointment of the Commissioner of Institutions shall take effect upon its passage; all other provisions shall take effect when such appointment becomes operative. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [Approved August 25, 1920. CHAPTER 8. Concerning the Salary of the Soldiers’ Relief Commissioner. Section 1. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby amended in section five in the clause establishing the salary of the Soldiers’ Relief Commissioner by striking out the words ^Thirty-five hundred” and inserting in place thereof the words ‘^five thousand.” Sect. 2. The salary of five thousand dollars to be received by John E. Gilman, the present soldiers’ relief commissioner, shall be so allowed from August first, nineteen hundred and twenty. [Approved August 25, 1920. CHAPTER 9. Concerning the Salary of the Superintendent of Printing. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914, is hereby amended in section five, in the clause establishing Ordinances of 1920. 29 the salary of the Superintendent of Printing, by striking out the words ^‘four thousand dollars” and inserting in place thereof the words ‘^five thousand dollars.” [Approved September 8, 1920. CHAPTER 10.* Concerning Fees for Builders’ Licenses. Section 1. Section 8 of chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out said section and substituting the following:— Section 8. The board shall issue a license to each person so certified by the board to the building com¬ missioner. All licenses hereafter issued, or issued less than one year prior to the passage of this ordinance, shall expire in one year from the date of issuance; and all licenses issued more than one year prior to the passage of this ordinance shall expire on the date in the year 1921, corresponding to the date in the year of issuance. The board may renew a license upon any expiration thereof, for the further period of one year from the date of renewal, with or without re-examination, as the board may determine. The fees to be paid to the board for such licenses and renewals shall be as follows: New license, five (5) dollars; and each yearly renewal thereof two (2) dollars. The .first renewal of a license heretofore granted, five (5) dollars; and each yearly renewal thereof two (2) dollars. Special license, one (1) dollar. The fees received by the board shall be paid to the city collector at least once a week. [Approved September 22^ 1920. CHAPTER 11. Concerning Itinerant Vendors’ Licenses. Section 1. Every itinerant vendor, whether prin¬ cipal or agent, authorized by state license to do business in this commonwealth, before making any sales of goods, wares and merchandise in the city of Boston, shall make application for a local license to the city clerk stating the names, residences and places of busi- * See Chapter 5, Ordinances of 1921. 30 City Document No. 105. ness of the owners or parties in whose interest said business is conducted, and shall at the same time file with the city clerk a true statement, under oath of the average quantity and value of the stock of goods, wares, and merchandise kept or intended to be kept or exposed by him for sale. The city clerk shall submit said state¬ ment to the assessors who shall forthwith make an examination atid valuation of such goods, wares and merchandise and transmit a certificate thereof to the city clerk. Sect. 2. Upon the payment of a fee equivalent to the taxes assessable under the last preceding tax levy upon an amount of property equal to the valuation certified by the board of assessors as provided for in section one of this ordinance, the city clerk shall issue to the itinerant vendor a license authorizing the sale of such goods, wares and merchandise within the city of Boston. Such license shall remain in force so long as the licensee shall continuously keep and expose for sale in the City of Boston such stock of goods, wares and merchandise, but not later than the first day of May following its date of issuance. Every itinerant vendor licensed under this ordinance shall also execute a bond to the city of Boston in the sum of S500 with two sufficient sureties, conditioned for faithful observance of this ordinance. Sect. 3. Every itinerant vendor who is granted a license under the provisions of this ordinance shall exhibit the same at all times, while in force, in some conspicuous part of the place of business for which it is issued. Sect. 4. The term ^itinerant vendor’’ for the pur¬ poses of this ordinance shall be the same as defined in sections one and two of chapter 65 of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts as amended by chapter 120 of the General Acts of 1916 and chapter 237 of the General Acts of 1917, and shall include any person, either prin¬ cipal or agent, who engages in a temporary or transient business in this city, and who, for the purpose of carry¬ ing on such business, hires, leases or occupies a building or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise. The provisions of this ordi¬ nance, however, shall not apply to sales by commercial travelers, or by selling agents to dealers in the usual course of business, nor to sales of goods, wares and merchandise by any person, either principal or agent, who engages in temporary or transient business within Ordinances of 1920. 31 the city and who has paid taxes upon his stock in trade during the current year, nor to hawkers and peddlers as defined by the laws of this commonwealth and the ordinauces of the city of Boston. Sect. 5. Any person, association or corporation who shall engage in the business of an itinerant vendor, as herein defined, without having secured a license for that purpose as provided in this ordinance, or neglects or refuses to file the statement described in section one of this ordinance, or makes a false or fraudulent repre¬ sentation in said statement, or who having secured such license, shall thereafter fail to pay the sum required herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con¬ viction thereof shall be subject to a fine of twenty dollars for each day during which such goods, wares or merchandise are kept or exposed for sale. [Approved September 22, 1920. CHAPTER 12. Concerning the Investment of Trust Funds. Chapter thirty-six of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out section four in said chapter, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 4. The treasurer, unless the donors have otherwise directed, shall receive all properties given, devised or bequeathed to, or deposited with, the city for any specific purpose, and shall use the same, or the income thereof, as designated in the gift, devise, bequest or deposit. If the income only is to be used, he shall hold the properties as permanent funds. He shall invest and keep invested the said permanent funds in bonds, notes or scrip of the United States or of the commonwealth or of any city or town within the commonwealth, or in mortgage notes secured in each case by a first mortgage on real estate used for human habitation and not in excess of fifty per cent of the assessed valuation of such real estate. For the purpose of investment and reinvestment he shall have power from time to time in his discretion to sell or exchange any of the securities of which any of the said permanent funds consist, but all purchases, exchanges and sales shall be with the written approval of the mayor. - [Approved October 27, 1920. 32 City Document No. 105. CHAPTER 13. Consolidating the Cemetery Department With THE Park and Recreation Department and Changing the Name of the Latter Depart¬ ment TO THE Park Department. Section 1. The name of the park and recreation department is hereby changed to the park department and the title of the commissioners of the park and recreation department is hereby changed to that of park commissioners. Sect. 2. The cemetery department is hereby con¬ solidated with the park department and placed under the charge of the park commissioners. Sect. 3. The park commissioners shall exercise the powers and perform the duties now provided by statute or ordinance to be exercised and performed by the trustees of the cemetery department and by the park and recreation commissioners. Sect. 4. The park commissioners shall create a division to be known as the cemetery division of the park department. Sect. o. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section three by striking out in the ninth line thereof the words “the cemetery department secretary, five thousand dollars” and by striking out in the twelfth line thereof the words “and recreation,” so that said clause shall read “the park department secretary, three thousand dollars.” Said chapter three is further amended in section five by striking out the words ‘ ‘ The park and 'recreation com¬ missioners, the chairman five thousand dollars and the deputy commissioner not more than forty-two hundred dollars” and by inserting in place thereof a new clause, as follows: “The park commissioners, the chairman seven thousand dollars, and deputy commissioner not more than forty-two hundred dollars.” Sect. 6 . Chapter two of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section one by striking out in the second paragraph thereof the words “one park and recreation commissioner,” and by inserting in place thereof the words “one park commissioner” and by striking out in the seventh paragraph thereof the words “one cemetery trustee.” Ordinances of 1920. 33 Sect. 7. Chapter twenty-four of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out the title thereof and inserting in its place the following: ‘^park department’’ and by striking out in the first line of section one the words ‘^and recreation. ” Sectionpne is further amended by striking out in the seventh line thereof of the word ^^five” and inserting in its place the word ‘‘seven.” Section two of said chapter twenty- four is hereby amended by striking out the word “and” in the fifth line thereof and inserting in its place a comma, and by adding at the end of said section the words “and the trustees of the cemetery department.” Sect. 8 . Chapter nine of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out the title thereof and inserting in its place the following: “cemetery division of the park department” and by striking out section one and inserting in its place the following new section: Section 1. The cemetery division of the park department shall be under the charge of the board of park commissioners who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties provided by statute for the cemetery department. ” Sect. 9. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved November 10, 1920. 34 City Document No. 105. ORDINANCES OF 1921. CHAPTER 1. Concerning the Salaries of the Building Com¬ missioner, Auditor, Collector, Treasurer, AND Superintendent of Public Buildings. Section five of chapter three of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914 is hereby amended by striking out in the clause establishing the salary of the building commissioner the word ‘‘five’’ and inserting in place thereof the word ‘^six’’; by striking out in the clause establishing the salary of the auditor the word ^^six” and inserting in place thereof the word seven”; by striking out in the clause establishing the salary of the collector the word ^‘five” and inserting in place thereof the word ^^six”; by striking out in the clause establish¬ ing the salary of the treasurer the word ^^five” and insert¬ ing in place thereof the word ‘^six”; and by striking out in the clause establishing the salary of the superintend¬ ent of public buildings the word ^Thirty-six” and inserting in place thereof the word ‘Torty-five.” [Approved April 21 y 1921. CHAPTER 2. Concerning the Bonding of Subordinates in the Treasury Department. Section one of chapter thirty-six of the Revised Ordi¬ nances of 1914 is hereby amended by inserting after the word ‘Tach” in the ninth line, the words ^Tnd from all other permanent employees not less than five thousand dollars,” so that said section one, when so amended, shall read as follows: • Section 1. The treasury department shall be under the charge of the city treasurer, who shall require from his subordinates, for the faithful performance of their respective duties and for the safe custody of the money Ordinances of 1921 . 35 and other property intrusted to them, bonds to himself as obligee, with sureties satisfactory to the mayor, with penal sums as follows, namely: from the cashier, not less than twenty thousand dollars; from the tellers and paymasters, not less than ten thousand dollars each; and from all other permanent employees not less than five thousand dollars; shall receive, receipt for, and have the care and custody of, the current funds of the city from the time the same shall come into his possession, and also of all money, property, and securities which may come into his possession by virtue of any statute or ordinance, or as a gift, devise, bequest, or deposit; may deposit any portion of such current funds in such national bank or banks established in Boston, or such trust company or companies organized under the laws of Massachusetts and doing a banking business in Boston, and on such conditions and rates of interest, as he shall deem best, subject to the approval of the mayor, pro¬ vided, however, that the amount of such 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 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 stand¬ ing 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 36 City Document No. 105 . 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 depart¬ ment, 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 mate¬ rial, 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 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 Ordinances of 1921. 37 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 May 4, 1921. CHAPTER 5. Concerning 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, re¬ moval or tearing down of buildings or structures in the city of Boston shall, hereafter, be under the charge, con¬ trol and personal supervision of a licensed mechanic, qualified by education, training or experience for the performance of that duty in a manner which shall pre¬ serve public safety and conform to the laws, ordinances, rules and regulations relating to the construction, altera¬ tion, removal or tearing down of buildings and struc¬ tures in the city of Boston. [Approved 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 pro¬ visions 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. 38 City Document No. 105. Wherever the word ^‘licensee’’ is use^J 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 suret}^ 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 accidept causing the damage or injury from the assured, his employees, agents or serv¬ ants. • 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: 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 — $5,000 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 Ordinances of 1921. 39 charge of any such motor vehicle in any public street, way, or place, without first obtaining, in addition to the chauffeur’s license issued by the Massachusetts Depart¬ ment 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. (6.) 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, modi¬ fying 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. 40 City Document No. 105. 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, mate¬ rially alter, modify, or add to the body or seating arrange¬ ments 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, Jfbwever, that the street commisioners may revise said license in accord¬ ance 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 opera¬ tion of such motor vehicle except in case of controlling emergency. Nothing herein shall be construed to pro¬ hibit the operation, in addition to the service described in the schedule on file and in effect at the time, of special Ordinances of 1921. 41 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 occu¬ pied, or unless such person is in an intoxicated condition, or conducting himself in a boisterous or disorderly manner, or is using profane 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 Eept 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, lb;, 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 42 City Document No. 105. or other person, and of any accident resulting in sub¬ stantial damage to property, in which he or any motor v^ehicle or operator under his control is involved. S®CT. 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 regulation, or for violation of any of- the rules, restrictions, requirements or regulations herein pre¬ scribed, or for any other cause deemed by said street commissioners, in the exercise of reasonable discretion, to be sufficient. Sect. 19. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each offense. Sect. 20. Chapter three of the Ordinances of 1919, chapter four of the Ordinances of 1919, and chapter four of the Ordinances of 1920, are hereby repealed. [Approved October 20, 1921. CHAPTER 7. Concerning the Salaries of the Election Com¬ missioners. Chapter three of the Revised Ordinances of 1914 is hereby amended in section five by striking out the clause relating to the salaries of the election commis¬ sioners and inserting in place thereof the following: ‘‘The election commissioners, the chairman, forty-five hundred dollars, the secretary, four thousand dollars, and the two other commissioners, each thirty-five hundred dollars .[Approved December 13, 1921. CHAPTER 8. Changing the Name of the Boston Consumptives’ Hospital to the Boston Sanatorium. The name of the Boston Consumptives’ Hospital is hereby changed to the Boston Sanatorium, and the Ordinances of 1921. 43 Revised Ordinances are hereby amended by striking out the words ‘‘Consumptives’ Hospital” wherever they may appear, and substituting therefor the words “Boston Sanatorium.” [Approved January 18^ 1922. CHAPTER 9. Concerning Contracts Made by the City. Section 1. No contract shall be made by the city except with,— (а) individual citizens of the United States; (б) corporations or other legal associations wherein the controlling interest to the extent of at least over one-half thereof is owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States. Sect. 2. No person other than a citizen of the United States shall be employed on any public work being done by,— (a) the City of Boston; {h) any contractor with the City of Boston; (c) any subcontractor with such contractor; except that persons not such citizens may be employed in the manner and under the conditions set forth in I the following section. Sect. 3. Whenever no citizens of the United States competent to perform the work in question can be had at the prevailing and customary rate of wages, the head of the department having charge of the work in question, with the written approval of the mayor, may issue a written authorization for the employment of such num¬ ber of persons other than citizens for such time as may be necessary to do the work, provided that no such authorization shall be issued except after compliance with the provisions of the following section. Sect. 4. Before issuing the written authorization provided for in the preceding section, the head of the department having charge of the work or contract shall give one or more public hearings and shall satisfy himself and certify in writing that the facts exist which warrant the issuance of such authorization. Where the employ¬ ment is to be by a contractor or subcontractor he shall require a written statement from such contractor or subcontractor to such facts sworn to before a justice of the peace. \ 44 City Document No. 105. fj Seic.'t- 5. It shall be the duty of all heads of depart- . ments to cause suitable inspection to be made of all j work for which they are severally responsible to ensure 1 compliance with the provisions of this ordinance, and 1 also to call all breaches thereof to the attention of the proper authorities for prosecution. Sect. 6. Any person, firm or corporation violating any section of this ordinance shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence and a separate olfence shall be regarded as committed for every day during which such person, firm or cor¬ poration shall continue such violation. Sect. 7. All contracts hereafter made by the city shall contain suitable provisions requiring contractors and subcontractors to comply with the terms of this ordinance and providing that no recovery shall be had on such contracts or subcontracts either against the city or any other person if a breach of this ordinance has been established. AUG 2 3 \924 university of ttUNOlS taWEBSlTy OF * City of Boston Printing Department