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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1922_04_19 Town Board Minutes Meeting of the Town Board, TOWN OF MAMARONECK, held, April 19th,1922. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor Burton at 11.30 P.M. PRESENT: Supervisor Burton, Justices, Boyd, Collins, Dudley and Shafer, Town Clerk Sherman. Upon motion, it was voted to dispense with the reading of minutes of meetings not yet approved. The report of the Receiver of Taxes for the month of March was received, read, ordered placed on file and is as follows: April 1st, 1922. Sir: Pursuant to the provisions of Section 23 of the West- chester County Tax Law, I hereby respectfully report the amount of State, County, Town, School, Highway and Special District taxes together with the interest and penalties thereon, collected by me during the month of March, 1922. 1921 1920 1919 1918 1917 All Taxes Taxes Taxes Taxes Taxes Arrears Total State & County. 1,014.79 77.80 1,092.59 Town 582.33 67.34 649.67 Highway 149.81 25.26 175.07 School Dist #1 4,440.22 540.94 4,981.16 Arrears 315.73 299.21 161.70 859.90 1,635.54 Int. & Penalty 656.05 232.35 92.61 119.97 77.32 745.73 1,920.03 Total, $10,455.06 Deposited with First Nat'l bank, Mamaroneck, $10,455.06 Respectfully submitted, Sgnd, Harry T. McGivney. Receiver of Taxes. The Police report for the month of March showing fines in the amount of $255.00 and 16 arrests was received and read, ordered noted in the minutes and placed on file. The report of the Building commission for the month of March showing fees collected in the amount of $76.00 and permits issued 12 was received and read, ordered noted in the minutes and placed on file. The report of the Town Clerk for the month of March was received and read showing fees collected amounting to $7.94 Same was ordered noted in the minutes and placed on file. The report of the Supervisor for the month of February was received, read, ordered placed on file and is as follows: March 1st, 1922. Gentlemen: Balance on hand Feb. 1st, 1922 $179,043.45 Received from Receiver of Taxes $11,378.23 " " Building Comm, 46.00 " " Town Clerk, 24.81 " " Wm. A. Boyd, Justice 20.00 " " P.H.Collins, " 50.00 " " S. Gironda, deposit, 10.00 " " C. Freda, " 10.00 Interest allowed on sewer fund, 158.34 11,697.38 PAYMENTS: Audited claims account, 9,001.47 Garbage contract #1, 250.00 " " #2, 66.66 Highway fund, Item #4, 507. 33 Refund street opening deposit, 100.00 Salary account, 1,996.65 Sewer fund, 2,367.64 14,289.75 Balance on hand this day, $176,451.08 Respectfully submitted, Sgnd, Geo.w. Burton. Supervisor. The Supervisor presented his annual report which was ordered received and filed with the Town. Clerk and it was VOTED, that the Richbell Press be the newspaper designated to publish said report in accordance with the law. The question being taken upon the foregoing resolution, same was upon ROLL CALL, unanimously adopted. A communication, from the Board of Assessors requesting permission to have printed 500 forms for new assessments was received and read and the matter was referred to the Supervisor with power. A communication from the office force was received and read complaining of the inconveniences of the present office and requesting the Town Board to take up the matter of securing new quarters. The communication was ordered placed on file and the matter was referred to a Committee for investigation and report. The Supervisor thereupon appointed Justice Collins and Shafer and Clerk Sherman upon said Committees. A communication from the Board of Assessors was received and read advising the Board that they had reorganized by electing Ferdinand Fish, Chairman and John H. Murray as Clerk. Same was ordered noted in the minutes and placed on file. Section 3: After the application shall have been published as prescribed in Section 2 hereof and proof thereof shall shall have been filed with the Town Clerk, the Town Clerk shall present said application to the Town Board of said Town at its next regular or special meeting. The Town Board shall thereupon have a public hearing and may in their discretion approve, modify and approve as modified, or disaiprove such application, and any or all such routes, operating schedule or headway or the proposed rate of tariff. Section 4. Upon the approval of such application either in its original form as modified the Supervisor of said Town shall issue a certificate of consent certifying that the applicant has received the consent of the Town Board of said Town to such operation. Such consent, however, shall not be operative unless the applicant is granted by the Public Service Commission a cer- tificate of public necessity and convenience as provided by Sections 25 and 26 of the Transportation Corporations Law and otherwise complies with the provisions of this ordinance herein- after set forth. Section 5: Upon the filing with the Town Clerk of a certified copy of a certificate of convenience and necessity duly issued to the applicant by the Public Service Commission as provided by the preceding section the Supervisor of said Town shall issue to said applicant a license authorizing the operation of such bus line or route or routes provided the applicant pays to the Supervisor the fee hereinafter provided and provided further the said applic- ant files with the Town Clerk a Surety Company bond in the penal sum if $10,000.00 for each bus, car or vehicle which shall provide for the prompt payment of any sum accruing to the Town of Mamaro- neck for any and all claims which may arise in any way whatsoever from the operation of the aforesaid bus, car or other vehicle and guaranteeing the faithful performance of all terms, conditions and obligations under which such consent or license is issued and also a liability policy of $50,000.00 having the effect of paying any judgement or judgements recoverable against the owner or owners of said bus or motor vehicle or against any of its, his or their employees or agents by any person on account of the operation of such bus, car or other vehicle either in or upon the streets or route specified in the consent or license or upon any other street or streets or highways within said Town. Such bond and policy shall be approved by the Counsel of the Town Board as to farm and sufficiency of surety. Every license shall be issued as of .January 2 and shall expire on December 31 next succeeding and shall contain a statement of the period for which it is issued which shall not exceed one year. Each license shall specify the number of oars or vehicles to be operated and the seating capacity of each car and shall provide that the applicant shall and will obey all laws of the State of New York and all ordinances of the Town of Mamaroneck regulating traffic upon the public streets of said Town, and shall not exceed the seating capacity of each car or vehicle than that stated in the application, and that in case of a violation thereof or in the event of failure on the part of the applicant, his or its agents or employees to operate such car or vehicle over the route according to the schedule or accord- ing to the tariff mentioned in the application in its original form or as modified by the Town Board the Supervisor may revoke such license forthwith without notice. Section 6: Such bus, car or vehicle operated under such license shall be subject to all reasonable regulations of the Police Commissioners of said Town and for failure to obey any such reas- onable regulations the Supervisor may revoke such license without notice. A communication from Dr. Mead was received and read stating that part of his property on the Boston Post Road had been included in the Sewer District through error and asking for the cancellation of the sewer tax. The matter was referred to the Supervisor with power to make the correction. The matter of burials at the Town cemetary was taken up and considered and after discussion, it was upon motion, duly seconded, VOTED, that all future burials at the Town Cemetary should be made upon app- lication and permission from the Town Clerk and the plot for the burials should be designated by said Clerk. The Clerk was authorized to have a notice published in the local newspapers to that effect. The Committee appointed to prepare and submit a set of bus and taxicab ordinances reported that they had drafted same with the assistahce of Counsel, whereupon the following ordinance was offered by Justice Boyd and seconded by Justice Shafer: BUS ORDINANCE. An ordinance to establish rules and regulations for the establishment, maintenance and operation of bus line, stage routes and other motor vehicle line or route within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Mamaroneck, New York, adopted at a meeting of the Town Board of said Town, held on April 19th, 1922 by virtue of the power vested in said Town Board under the provisions of subdivision 17 of Section 142- a of the Town Law and of Section 26 of the Transportation Corporations Law. Section 1: No bus line, stage route, cabs, motor vehicle line or route nor any vehicle in connection therewith nor any vehicle carrying passengers at a rate of fare of fifteen cents or less for each passenger within the unincorporated limits of the Town of Mamaroneck or in competition with another common carrier which is required by law to obtain the consent of the Town Board to operate over the sheets thereof shall be operated wholly or partly upon or along any street, avenue or public place in said unincorporated portion of said Town of Mamaroneck until the owner or owners thereof shall have procured the consent of the Town at Board of said Town of Mamaroneckto such operation as herein pro- videdz, and until the owner or owners thereof shall have procured a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Public Service Commission as required by Sections 25 and 26 of the Transportation Corporations Law of the State of New York. Section 2 Any person, firm, association of persons or corporation, desiring to carry on the business mentioned and defined in and by the preceding section shall file a written application with the Town Clerk of said Town of Mamaroneck directed to the Town Board of said Town, showing the streets, public places and route or routes over and upon which it is intended to operate, together with a statement containing the operating schedule or headway to be maintained, the number of cars or vehicles to be operated and the seating capacity of each bus or cab or other motor vehicle intended to be used for the transportation of passengers and the rate of tarriff of fares to be charged for such service, and shall also cause said application to be published at his expense at least once in a newspaper published within said Town to be designated by the Town Clerk. Section 7. The license fees for the operation of bus, car or other motor vehicle within the said Town shall be as follows: A. For each bus or other motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not more than ten passengers, $100.00 B. For each bus or other motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not more than twenty passengers, $250.00 C. For each bus or other motor vehicle having a seating of more than twenty passengers, $350.00 Section 8. Every person shall, while driving or operating a bus or other motor vehicle, wear conspicuously on his outer garment a shield bearing his license number. Section 9. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions or sections of this ordinance or any part thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 10. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to the operation of taxicabs. Section 11. This ordinance shall take effect tendays after the date of the publication and posting thereof as required by law. The question being taken upon the foregoing ordinance same was upon ROLL CALL, unanimously adopted. Taxi Ordinance. An ordinance to regulate the operation of cabs,hacks, or other vehicles for the transportation of passengers for hire within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Mamaroneck, adopted at a meeting of the Town Board of said Town, held on April 19th, 1922, by virtue of the power vested in said Town Board under the provisions of subdivision 17 of Section 142-A of the Town Law. Section 1. The pursuit or exercise of the trade or occupation of operating or driving public carriages, cabs, hacks, automobiles or other vehicles for the transportation of persons within the unincorporated portion of the Town of Mamaroneck, for hire, without a license is hereby prohibited. Section 2. Licenses for the operation of cabs, hacks, public carriages, automobiles or other vehicles for the transportation of persons, for hire, shall be granted only to persons twenty one years of age or more except that a drivers license may be granted to a person of not less than eighteen years of age. Section 3. License fees shall be paid to the Town Clerk and shall be for the following amounts, viz: A. For each vehicle used for the transportation of persons having a seating capacity of not more than five passengers, $5.00 B. For each vehicle used for the transportation of persons having a seating capacity of mote than five passengers, $10.00 Section 4. Every person shall, while driving a licensed vehicle, conspicuously wear on his outer garment a shield or metal badge bearing his license number, which shield or badge shall be issued by the Town Clerk. Section 5. No person shall operate or drive a taxicab, carriage or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers for hire within the said unincorporated portion of the Town of Mamaroneck unless such taxicab, carriage or other vehicle shall have a dis- tinctive number corresponding to that on the license issued hereunder conspicuously displaved so that the same may be readily seen day or night from a distance of not less than 50 feet. -: Section 6. No person driving a licensed vehicle shall refuse to transport passengers on request unless said vehicle is full. Section 7. No greater rate of fare than that stated below shall be charged for transportation between any two points in the unin- corporated portion of the Town of Mamaroneck by any licensed vehicle, viz: A. From 6 O'clock a.m. to 5.30 p.m. between the N.Y.N.H. & H.R.R. or Westchester & Boston Station and any piont south of the Rookingstbne in the Foods of Larcrmont, or south of Forest Avenue in Chatsworth Heights, or south of Fernwood Road and Sheldrake Creek in the Larchmont Gardens, or west of Weaver Street and Boston Post Road in Howell Park; 35 cents for one passenger 50 cents for two passengers 25 cents for each additional passenger B. From 5.30 o'olock p.m. to 1.30 o'clock a.m. between any two points mentioned in subdivision (a) hereof 50 cents for one passenger 25 cents for each additional passenger C. From 1.30 o'clock a.m.to 6 o 'clock a.m., $1.00 for one passenger 50 cents for each additional passenger. D. From 6 o 'clock a.m. to 5.30 o 'clock p.m., between any two points within the unincorporated portion of the Town but beyond the distances enumerated in subdivision (a) hereof, 50 cents for one passenger 50 cents for each additional passenger. E. From 8.30 o 'clock p.m. to 1.30 o 'clock a.m. $1.00 for one passenger 50 cents for each additional passenger. F. From 1. 30 o 'clock a.rn. to 6 o'clock a.m. $1.50 for one passenger 75 cents for each additional passenger. Section 8. The violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance or any part thereof shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $200. and on default of payment of the fine so imposed, the person convicted of such violation may be committed to the Westchester County Penitentiary for a term not exceeding one day for each and every dollar of such fine. Section 9. This ordinance shall take effect ten days after the date of the publication and posting thereof as required by Law. The question being taken upon the adoption of the foregoing resolution, same was upon ROLL CALL unanimously adopted. Upon motion duly seconded and upon ROLL CALL, it was RESOLVED, that the foregoing resolutions be published once in the Larchmonter Times and the Richbell Press, and that Counsel attend to the publication and posting thereof, and it was further RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to ob- tain a suitable supply of license blanks and metal badges for bus and taxicab drivers for the purpose of carrying out the prov- isions of the bus and taxicab ordinances and that the reasonable cost thereof be a proper town charge. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 11.50 P.M. Frederick M. Sherman Town Clerk.