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No. 10 of 1902.
Breach of
provisions of Ordinance. etc.
*
Further offences.
*
[cf. No. 10 of 1886.]
Further offences.
*
TRAMWAY.
Offences.
57. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance for which no penalty is specially provided, or wilfully obstructs any person acting under the authority of the company in the lawful exercise of any of the powers hereby conferred, or defaces or destroys any mark made for the purpose of setting out the line of the tramway, or damages or destroys any property of the company, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
58. Every person who wilfully and without lawful
excuse---
(1) interferes with, removes, or alters, any part of the tramway, or of the works connected therewith; or
(2) places or throws any stone, dirt, wood, refuse, or other material on any part of the tramway; or
(3) does, or causes to be done, anything in such manner as to obstruct any car using the tramway, or to endanger the lives of persons therein, or thereon; or
(4) knowingly aids or assists in the doing of any of such things,
shall be liable (in addition to any proceedings by way of indictment or otherwise to which he may be subject) to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
59. Every person who,--
(1) while travelling or after having travelled in any car, avoids or attempts to avoid payment of his fare; or
(2) having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such car beyond such distance. and does not pay or tender the additional fare for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid payment thereof;
or
(3) knowingly or wilfully refuses or neglects, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit such car, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars.
*As amended by Law Rev, Ord., 1921.
TRAMWAY.
No. 10 of 1902.
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detain per-
sons who
offences.
*
60. It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of the Power to company, and for any person called by him to his assistance, to seize any person whom such officer or servant may have commit reasonable grounds for believing to have committed any offence against this Ordinance or against any rule made thereunder, and to detain such person until he can be handed over to a police officer, and any police officer to whom any person is so handed over shall detain any such person until he can conveniently be brought before a magistrate: Provided that it shall be lawful for any police officer in his discretion to release such person upon being furnished by such person with his true name and true address in the Colony.
dangerous
†
61. No person shall be entitled to carry or to require to Penalty for be carried on the tramway any dangerous goods as defined ging by the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, and every person goods on who sends by the tramway any such goods without distinctly tramway. marking their nature on the outside of the vessel or package Ordinance containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in writing No. 1 of 1873. to the book-keeper or other servant with whom the same are left, at the time of such sending, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and it shall be lawful for the company to refuse to take any parcel that it may suspect to contain any such dangerous goods or require the same to be opened to ascertain the fact.
way with
62. Every person who (except under the authority of Penalty for this Ordinance) uses the tramway with carriages, cars or using tram- vehicles having flange-wheels or other wheels suitable to flange run on the rail of the tramway, shall be liable to a fine not wheeled exceeding one hundred dollars.
[ss. 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 and 69, rep. No. 8 of 1912.]
Miscellaneous.
carriages, etc.
70. Every fare, charge, penalty or forfeiture imposed Recovery of by this Ordinance the recovery of which is not otherwise fares, etc. provided for, may be recovered before a magistrate, and on complaint being made to a magistrate he shall issue a sum- mons requiring the party complained against to appear before any unagistrate at a time and place to be named in such sum- mons, and every such summons shall be served on the party offending either in person or by leaving the same with some
* As amended by No. 34 of 1915.
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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