Chapter 357. To confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia authority to regulate the operation and equipment of the vehicles of the Metropolitan Coach Company, and to provide for transfers between said company and the Capital Traction Company and the Washington Railway and Electric Company
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CHAP. 357.— An Act To confer upon the Commissioners of the District of Columbia authority to regulate the operation and equipment of the vehicles of the Metropolitan Coach Company, and to provide for transfers between said company and the Capital Traction Company and the Washington Railway and Electric Company. August 24, 1912.[[S. 2904](/us/bill/62/s/2904).][[Public, No. 304](/us/pl/62/304).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Metropolitan Coach Company.Authority of Commissioners.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby empowered to regulate and control the character of the vehicles and equipment to be used by the Metropolitan Coach Company of the District of Columbia and the operation of said vehicles by said company. Sec. 2. License for operation, etc. That said commissioners are hereby given authority to issue such permits or licenses for the operation of said vehicles as may be necessary to carry this Act into effect, and for cause shown to revoke the same, and further to make, alter, or amend from time to time, reasonable rules, regulations, and orders for the equipment and operation of said vehicles, which rules and regulations and orders when so made shall be valid and binding on the said Metropolitan Coach Company and upon all persons.
Sec. 3. Service required. That said company shall provide and furnish at all times such service and facilities as shall be reasonably safe and adequate; and it shall at all times maintain its vehicles in good and proper repair, neat and clean, free from offensive smoke, noise, and odors, in a sanitary condition, sufficient in number, and reasonably comfortable Schedules.and convenient. The company shall operate its vehicles so as to give expeditious passage to all persons desiring to use the same, and 491on such reasonable time schedule or schedules as said commissioners may from time to time fix and determine.
The said commissioners shall have power by a rule or rules from time to time to require and compel obedience to the provisions of this section after notice to and opportunity given said company to be heard. Sec. 4. That said Metropolitan Coach Company and its officersEmployees, etc., to obey rules, etc. and employees are hereby required to obey all the provisions of this Act and such reasonable rides, regulations, and orders as may be made by said commissioners, and if said company or its officers orPenalty. employees violate any provision of this Act or any of said rules, regulations, or orders made by said commissioners, or permit such violation, said company or each of said officers or employees shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and prosecution for each of said violations shall be made on information in the name of the District of Columbia, filed in the police court of the District of Columbia by the corporation counsel or one of his assistants.
Sec. 5. The vehicles of the Metropolitan Coach Company shall followRoute allowed. its present route to Fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, and shall go thence west to Madison Place, north to H Street, east to Fifteenth Street, and thence to Sixteenth and U Streets, by the route followed coming south; and said company, if it so elects, shall be permitted, in lieu of sending its vehicles west on Pennsylvania Avenue,Alternate route. as above provided, to send them south on Fifteenth Street and east on Pennsylvania Avenue to Eighth Street west, and thence reverse to Sixteenth and U Streets.
Sec. 6. That said company shall issue to all passengers received byTransfers.Interchange with Capital Traction Company. it north of II Street northwest, and desiring same, a transfer ticket to the cars of the Capital Traction Company at the intersection of Fifteenth Street and New York Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, said transfer ticket to be good for passage on the cars of the Capital Traction Company going south or west, and the said Capital Traction Company shall receive and transport on its said cars said passengers on said transfer tickets without the payment of additional fare; and the said Capital Traction Company shall issue to all its passengers desiring same, on cars going east on Pennsylvania Avenue and north on Fifteenth Street, at said intersection, a transfer ticket to the coaches of the said Metropolitan Coach Company, and the said Metropolitan Coach Company shall receive and transport on its coaches said passengers on said transfer tickets without the payment of additional fare.
Sec. 7. That said Metropolitan Coach Company shall issue to all itsInterchange with Washington Railway and Electric Company passengers desiring same a transfer ticket to the cars of the Washing-ton Railway and Electric Company at the said intersection of Fifteenth Street, New York Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, said transfer ticket to be good for passage on the cars of the said Washington Railway and Electric Company, and the said Washington Railway and Electric Company shall receive and transport on its said cam said passengers on said transfer tickets without the payment of additional fare; and the said Washington Railway and Electric Company shall issue to all its passengers desiring same at said intersection a transfer ticket to the coaches of the said Metropolitan Coach Company, and the said Metropolitan Coach Company shall receive and transport on its coaches said passengers on said transfer ticket without the payment of additional fare.
Sec. 8. That any company named herein that fails to comply withPenalty for non-compliance. the requirements of sections six and seven of this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each violation thereof, and prosecutions shall be made as prescribed in section four of this Act; that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall make and enforce the regulations necessary to carry the provisions of these sections into effect. 492 Sec. 9. In effect in six months.Termination of franchise on failure to comply with rules.
That the provisions of this Act shall be effective on and after six months from the date of its passage, and, in addition to the penalties in this Act provided, the failure of the Metropolitan Coach company at any time or times hereafter to comply with the terms hereof shall make it unlawful for it to operate its vehicles over its route, and if said company shall, within a period of thirty days of notice thereof, fail to comply with any of said rules, regulations, or orders, made by said commissioners, its right to operate said vehicles shall terminate without notice, and the commissioners are directed thereupon to prevent the use of the public highways by said company.
Sec. 10. Amendment. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Approved, August 24, 1912.