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THE CORPORATICN OF THE
TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
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By-Law No. 76-75
Being a by-law to amend By-Law No. 74-72 as amended
by By-Law No. 74-87 and By-Law No. 76-19 being a
by-law for licensing, regulating and governing taxi
drivers, brokers and taxi vehicle oh~ers, buses, motor
and other vehicles used for hire and for establishing
rates and fares to be charged by the owners or drivers
of such vehicles for the conveyance of goods, passengers,
either wholly within the municipality or to any point
not more than three miles beyond its limits, and for
providing for collection of such rates or fares and for
revoking any such licences.
BE IT ENACTED and it is hereby enacted as a By-law of the Corporation of the Town
of Newcastle as fol1ows:-
THAT By-Law No. 74-72 passed by the Council of the Corporation of the Town
of Newcastle on the 21st day of October, 1974 and amended by By-Law No. 74-87 and
by By-Law No. 76-19 is hereby further amended as follows:-
THAT Section 14. Tariff and Tariff Cards be hereby deleted
and substituted by the fo1Iowing:-
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"Tariff and Tariff Cards
14. The rates of fares to be charged by the owners of taxicabs
and limousines (other than drive-self vehicles) for the conveyance
of passengers wholly within the Town of Newcastle or to any point
not more than three miles beyond its limits, shall be exactly as
shown in Tariff "A" of this by-law, and no higher or lower amount
than that contained in the said Tariff shall be charged or payable,
whether such rates and charges are determined by distance or by
time; providec an owner and a customer may enter into a contract,
in writing, for services to extend for the period of a year or
more on runs between fixed points at an agreed Tariff, but the
duplicate original of such contract must be filed within three
months and approved by Council. No owner or driver shall publish
or use a Tariff other than that authorized by the Council. An
owner or driver licensed hereunder may operate a taxicab on an
hourly basis at the request of a passenger, and then only at the
rate therefor fixed by Tariff "A" of this by-law."
By-law read a first and second time this 13th day of December, 1976.
By-law read a third time and finally passed this 13th day of December, 1976.
J .M. McIlro
Clerk
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G.B. Rickard
Mayor
Seal