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Editor's Note: For statutory provisions authorizing the City to license and regulate buses, see MGL c. 159A, § 1 et seq.
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.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 12, Licenses and Permits Generally.
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.