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.