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15. Each passenger shall when required show the ticket or monthly ticket given to him covering the journey he is travelling on, or any free pass held by him to the Con- ductor or to any duly authorised servant of the Company and shall also, when required either deliver up any such ticket or pass for inspection or pay the fare legally demandable. for the distance travelled over by such passenger.
16. Tickets shall only be available for the car on which they are issued. Every passenger who leaves a car for any reason and resumes his journey by another car shall pay a fresh fare from the point at which he enters the second car.
17. No passenger or other person, not being a servant of the Company, shall travel on the steps of any car and shall cease to do so immediately on request by the Conductor.
18. No person, except a passenger or intending passenger, shall enter or mount
any car.
19. No person shall enter, mount or leave, or attempt to enter, mount or leave, any car whilst in motion.
20. No person shall take a dog or other animal in or on to any car except by per- mission of the Conductor. Any dog or other animal taken into or on any car which becomes a nuisance or annoyance to passengers or which interferes with or gets in the way of the driver or the driving or controlling apparatus of the car shall be removed by the person in charge of such dog or other animal from the car immediately upon request of the Conductor, and in default of compliance with such request may be removed by or under the direction of the Conductor.
21. No person shall enter, get upon or travel in or on any car with loaded firearms, or with any article, instrument or implement which may in the opinion of the Conductor be dangerous or offensive to any passenger.
22. No person shall stand in such a position on the car as to hamper the motorman in any way or shall touch any part of the controlling gear of any car.
23. No passenger shall stand on the platform of a car after being requested to go inside by the Conductor. No passenger shall stand or travel in any exit passage way.
24. Any person who requires change to be given him before he is able to pay his right fare, shall, if the Conductor is unable to give him change, upon request immediately leave the car.
25. No person shall wilfully obstruct or impede any officer or servant of the Com- pany in the execution of his duty upon or in connection with any car or tramway of the Company.
26. The Conductor of each car shall enforce or prevent a breach of these Rules to the best of his ability.
27. If the Conductor has reason to believe that any person has committed a breach of any Rule made by the Company he shall be entitled to ask such person for his name and address in Hongkong and any such person shall on demand forthwith furnish to the Conductor his true name and his true address in Hongkong.
28. Any person offending against or committing a breach of any of these Rules shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $10 for each offence.
29. The expression "Conductor" shall include any officer or servant in the employ- ment of the Company and having charge either temporarily or otherwise of a car and shall also include an inspector of the Company.
30. All previous Rules made by the Company are revoked from the date of coming into operation of the above Rules.
The above Rules were published in the Gazette on the 31st day of December, 1915.
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