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COUNTY OF HAWAII
TERRITORY OF IIAWAII
Ordinance No. 135
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING OR-
DINANCE NO. 126 OF THE
COUNTY OF HAWAII TO PER-
MIT STANDING PASSENGERS
TO CERTAIN VEHICLES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
COUNTY OF HAWAII:
Section 1. Section 1 of Ordinance
126 is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new paragraph to read
as fellows:
"iD [L In fixing the capacity of
vehicles whose passenger
seating capacity, as de-
termined above, is in ex-
cess of 17 passengers, it
the Examiner of Chauf-
feurs of the Police De-
partment oP the County oP
Hawaii, shall find that the
minimum inside distance
from the aisle floor to the
ceiling of any such vehi-
cle is 74 inches, and that
the construction of such
vehicle is such that it may
safely carry an additional
number of standing pas-
sengers in excess of the
actual passenger aeatiug
capacity of such vehicle,
then Lhe Examiner of
Chauffeurs aforesaid may,
iu his discretion, fix and
allow a rated passenger
carrying capacity to such
vehicle in excess of the
'rated seating capacity',
and for all purposes of this
ordinance, such rated pas-
senger carrying capacity,
so determined, shall be
deemed the Yated seating
capacity' of suoh vehicle.
"t2) In determining the num-
ber of standing passengers
which such vehicle may
carry in excess of its ac-
tual passenger seating ca-
pacity, the Examiner of
Chauffeurs, aforesaid, shall
consider as a basis for
such determination (but
not be limited thereto), a
minimum area oY 1'/_
square feet of aisle floor
space per standing pas-
senger.
"B) No such vehicle, whose
`rated seating capacity', as
above determined, ahall
include standing passen-
gers therein, shall be per-
mitted to carry passengers
in excess of its actual pas-
senger seating capacity
tas distinguished from its
`rated seating capacity')
within any area of the
County of Hawaii outside
the geographical limits of
the city of Hilo; Provided
that the Board of Super-
visors may by resolution
extend and take away the
privilege of carrying stand-
ing passengers in any
such vehicle to such other
areas of the County of
Hawaii and for such pe-
riods as the Board shall
find necessary."
Section 2. This ordinance shalt
take effect as of the date oP passage
hereof.
Introduced by:
tSGD) WM. THOMPSON
Supervisor, 2nd Representative
District.
Date oP Introduction:
August 2, 1944
Hilo, Hawaii
TERRITORY OF HAWAII )
COUNTY OF HAWAII ) ss.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the
foregoing Ordinance was regularly
considered at a meeting of the
Board of Supervisors of the Coun-
ty oP Hawaii held at the County
Seat upon the 8th day oP September,
A. D. 1944, and upon being put to
vote said Ordinance was adopted by
a majortiy of the Supervisors at said
meeting.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the Oounty of Hawaii
upon this 6th day of September,
A. D. 1944. ,
~ CEAL)
~Sgd.) ALFRED K. KUMALAE,
County Clerk of the County
of Hawaii.