Chapter 5.62 — STREET CARS

It is unlawful for any person to operate or control the operation of, or to in any manner work upon or be engaged in connection with the operation of, any street car propelled by any motive power upon any street railway in the city, unless he or she shall, prior to so doing, have spent at least ten days in learning the proper manner of so operating said car and in learning the route traveled by said car under the instruction and guidance of competent instructors; or for any person to act as such instructor until he or she has been instructed for a period of ten days in the proper operation of such car or unless he or she has been actually engaged in the operation of a street car upon a street railway in the city for a period of six months prior to giving the instructions, and is familiar with the route traveled by said car.

(Prior code § 2-5.01)

It is unlawful for any person owning any street railway or engaged in the business of operating a street railway in the city, or for any officer, manager or person in the employ of the aforesaid person owning or engaged in the business of operating a street railway, to employ or hire any person to operate, work upon or in anywise control the operation of any street car upon any street railway in the city, until such person has been instructed as required by the provisions of Section 5.62.010.

It shall be the duty of any person owning or engaged in the business of operating a street railway in the city to furnish the instructions herein required.

(Prior code § 2-5.02)

It is unlawful for any person owning or engaging in the business of operating a street railway in the city to allow any employee to carry or exhibit any club, pistol, revolver, gun, firearm, blackjack or sling shot while upon a street car traversing the streets of the city, unless such employee shall be a duly appointed and legally constituted officer authorized by law to carry such weapon.

(Prior code § 2-5.03)

Every person owning or engaged in the business of operating street cars within the city by means of electricity shall provide and maintain upon each of such cars, while containing passengers, at least two employees: a motorman and a conductor, during all the time said car is in motion within said city, each of said employee to be an adult not less than eighteen (18) years of age, excepting as hereinafter provided.

The Council may grant, by ordinance, permission to operate one-person street cars over such lines and upon such conditions as it may prescribe, after application made therefor, filed with the Clerk of said Council setting forth specifically the routes and lines upon and over which it is desired to operate said one- person street car. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section or permitting, ordering, authorizing or directing a violation thereof, shall be deemed guilty of an infraction.

(Prior code § 2-5.04)

It is unlawful for any motorman, driver or other person operating or controlling any street car within the city to leave the position occupied by such person in operating or controlling the machine, railway or other motive power of such car while said car is in motion.

(Prior code § 2-5.05)

Any person owning or operating any street railroad using electricity as a motive power in the city, and moving cars thereon, and the current being conducted for such motive power by what are generally termed trolley wires or overhead conductors, are required to construct and maintain guard or safety wires over each trolley wire or overhead conductor so used. The said guard or safety wires shall be of galvanized iron,

and not less than one hundred and sixty-five thousandth (165/1,000) of an inch in diameter, and shall be parallel to the said trolley wire, and not less than sixteen (16) inches above the said trolley wire, and not less than eight inches nor more than twelve (12) inches on each side of a line drawn from said trolley wire perpendicular to the plane passing through the two said guard wires. The said guard or safety wires shall be thoroughly insulated from all current-bearing conductors of the said railroad motor circuits, and shall be at such places as the Electrical Department of the city may direct and designate. Any person refusing or neglecting for the period of three months to construct and maintain such guard or safety wires as herein required, after receiving notice in writing so to do from the said Electrical Department, shall be deemed guilty of an infraction.

(Prior code § 2-5.06)

It is unlawful for any person to run or operate or cause to be run or operated upon or along any street within the city, any street railway car carrying passengers unless such car is equipped with wheel guards which shall be attached to the truck beneath the outer or forward portion of wheels and the outer or forward end of the car. Such wheel guards shall be constructed in a thorough workmanlike manner, of steel and wire mesh, or of steel and hardwood, assembled in the form of a flat or spring scoop which shall extend across under the car body the full width of the truck measured from outside to outside of the car wheels, and it shall be of ample strength to support or sustain an adult human body, and shall be so attached to the truck that the forward edge of the guard shall be not more than four inches above the top of the rails while the guard is in normal position.

Said guard shall be inspected and kept in repair and maintained in a normal operative condition by the person operating the car to which said wheel guards are attached.

(Prior code § 2-5.07)

It is unlawful for any person to run or operate or cause to be run or operated upon or along any street within the city any street railway car unless such car is equipped with a projecting fender which shall be placed upon, and securely attached to, the front end of said car body or frame work, and not attached to the wheels or trucks thereof.

Said apron or cradle shall be so constructed and attached to said car that it will form an elastic or resilient cradle or scoop which will cushion or break the impact of a person falling into or struck by it.

Said apron or cradle shall be so attached to the car that its forward edge may be elevated or depressed by means of chains, rods or other devices and when not in service, may be folded back against the buffer or front of car.

Said apron or cradle shall be normally carried with the forward edge not more than five and one-half inches above the top of the rail when the car is upon the level.

Said fender shall conform substantially to the specifications set forth in Section 5.62.090.

(Prior code § 2-5.08)

A buffer or shield of elastic or resilient material shall extend across the entire front of the car and be so placed and attached to the car as to prevent persons being struck by the rigid projecting portions of the front end of the car, such as bumpers, bumper beams and draw heads. Outside and forward of said elastic buffer or shield there shall be attached to said car body or the platform thereof, an adjustable, hinged or pivoted apron, or cradle, not less than sixty-six (66) inches in width at its extreme forward edge, and not less than thirty-six (36) inches in depth, measured from its forward edge toward its point of attachment to the car body.

Said apron or cradle, as well as the elastic shield or buffer, shall be constructed of steel or iron strips, or springs, or of wire mesh, and all materials shall be of ample strength for the purposes for which they are intended; and, so far as the proper function of the various parts will permit, all materials shall be assembled so as to form a yielding or elastic structure.

Said apron or cradle shall be substantially rectangular in outline and be so constructed that, either by reason of the shape or form of the materials of which it is constructed, or by reason of the movement or change in position of some portion of its structure, it will form a shallow scoop or receptacle capable of receiving and retaining a person struck by or falling upon such scoop, apron or cradle.

The forward edge of said apron or cradle shall be protected by rubber or other elastic material, so arranged as to cushion or relieve the impact resulting from any person falling on or being struck by such portion of apron or cradle.

(Prior code § 2-5.081)

It is unlawful for any person under the age of sixteen (16) years to get on or attempt to get on or to get off from any street railway car or railroad train propelled either by steam or electricity while such car or train is in motion, at any place in the city; or for any person to ride on the top or roof of any street car or railroad train or to ride on the front or rear fenders of any such car or train while the same is being operated in the city.

(Prior code § 2-5.09)

It is unlawful for any person operating or in charge of any interurban train to cause or permit the same to be propelled across any street in the city without having sounded an alarm, gong or bell while within a distance of from fifty (50) to twenty-five (25) feet of the street about to be crossed.

(Prior code § 2-5.19)

It is unlawful for any person owning, operating or controlling any interurban or other railway train or railway engine to cause or permit the same to attain a greater maximum rate of speed than fifteen (15) miles per hour in any of that portion of the city bounded on the north by the northerly line of Twenty-Second Street and Grand Avenue, on the east by the easterly line of Oak Street and said easterly line of Oak Street extended to Grand Avenue, on the south by the southerly charter line of the city and on the west by the westerly line of Market Street.

(Prior code § 2-5.20)

It is unlawful for any person to trespass in any railroad tunnel situated wholly or partly within the city or upon the railroad tracks or right-of-way within such tunnel.

(Prior code § 2-5.21)