No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon a public street
or way in the City for the carriage of passengers for hire by indiscriminately
receiving and discharging passengers along a regular predetermined
route on which the vehicle is operated, or for the transporting of
passengers for hire as a business between fixed and regular termini,
without first having obtained a license for such operation. Applications
for such licenses shall specify the route or routes over which the
motor vehicles used thereunder are to be operated and shall be approved
by the Commissioner of Public Safety or the officer in charge of the
Police Department.
Every license to operate a bus shall be numbered serially in
order as granted, shall set forth the name, residence and place of
business of the licensee and the number of vehicles to be operated
under such license.
Every such license shall specify the route or routes over which
the motor vehicles used thereunder may be operated and shall be on
a form approved by the Department of Public Utilities.
No person shall solicit, by outcry or other noise passengers
for any motor vehicle licensed under this article.
Every person operating any bus licensed under this article shall
deliver any article left therein by any passenger to the Commissioner
of Public Safety not more than 24 hours after finding the same, and
shall receive a receipt therefor from the Commissioner of Public Safety
who shall provide for returning the same to the owner upon proper
identification and proof of ownership. All such articles delivered
to the Commissioner of Public Safety and not claimed within 60 days
from such delivery shall be returned to the licensee.