Alameda Municipal Code § 10-6 Motorbuses

No driver of any motorbus in the City shall at any time, unless the vehicle is filled to legal capacity, refuse to carry any person offering himself to be carried, and tendering the fare for the same, to any place in the route of the vehicle provided, however, that such driver may refuse transportation to any person who is in an intoxicated condition or who is conducting himself in a boisterous or otherwise unruly manner.

(Ord. No. 693 N.S.)

It shall be unlawful for any driver of any motorbus in the City who has received a passenger for any announced or agreed trip, except for reasons beyond the control of the owner or driver, to fail to complete the trip with all reasonable dispatch and without any extra payment of fare, or to fail, refuse or neglect to operate such motorbus between the terminal and over the entire route specified in the permit granted to so operate.

(Ord. No. 693 N.S.)

No owner or driver of any motorbus operated in the City shall at any time change or alter the route of same except upon permission duly granted by the City Manager after application is made therefor.

(Ord. No. 693 N.S.)

No motorbus operated in the City shall be operated in the night time unless the passengers' compartment thereof be kept continuously lighted.

(Ord. No. 693 N.S.)

It shall be unlawful for any motorbus operated in the City to receive or discharge passengers within any intersection of streets and in all cases such reception and discharge of passengers shall be at a point as near the curb as may be practicable, and shall be through and from the side of such motorbus nearest the street curb and on the right hand side thereof. The places of receiving and discharging passengers by motorbuses shall be at all times subject to order of the Chief of Police.

(Ord. No. 693 N.S.)

It shall be unlawful for any person operating a motorbus to permit, cause or allow such vehicle to cross any railroad tract at any intersecting street in the City over which railroad trains are operated, without bringing such vehicle to a full stop before crossing the railroad track; it shall be unlawful for any person operating such motorbus to permit, cause or allow such vehicle to cross any street railroad track at any intersecting street unless such person shall have reduced the speed of such vehicle to not more than five (5) miles per hour while crossing such track; provided, that at any point where a flagman is stationed, such person operating such motorbus shall not be required to stop unless warned or directed by such flagman so to do; provided, further, that at any point where a traffic officer is stationed, such person operating such motorbus shall comply with the direction of such traffic officer.

(Ord. No. 693 N.S.)