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No. 10 of 1902.
TRAMWAY.
Construction of cars.
Powers to authorities to inspect cars, etc.
Penalty for using electric power contrary to Ordinance.
Rules.
electric power shall be subject to any rules which the Governor in Council may make for securing to the public all reasonable protection against danger in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred with respect to the use of electric power on the tramway. In the event of the company being unable at any time to move the cars by electric power the cars may temporarily be moved by animal power.
33. Every motor car and trailer car used on the tramway shall be so constructed as to provide for the safety of passengers and for their safe entrance to and exit from and accommodation in such car and their protection from the machinery used for drawing or propelling such car.
34. The Director of Public Works, or any officer appointed for that purpose by the Governor in writing, may inspect any car used on the tramway and the machinery therein and any wires or other machinery of the company and report thereon, and the Governor may (after receiving from the company and considering its report on the matter) by order prohibit the use of any such car, wires or machinery as may be determined to be unsafe or unfit for use.
35. The company or any person using electric power on the tramway contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, or to any of the rules under section 32, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and also in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine not exceeding ten dollars for every day after the first during which such offence continues.
Rules.
36. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make rules for any of the following purposes-
(a) for regulating the working of the tramway;
(b) for regulating the use of the warning apparatus affixed to the cars;
(c) for providing that the cars shall be brought to a stand at such places and in such cases of impending danger as the Governor in Council may deem proper for securing safety;
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.