Thissection was inserted by soction 13, ibid. — (TAMIL NADU) ACT No. V OF 1911'

3 Thissection was inserted by soction 13, ibid. . employing him or in any way responsible for or abetting such contravention or employment, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term a h'ch may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or with both.] Penalty for re- fusing to lot Penalt fusing fo to re lot haokney ~3% for hire. Any owner or driver of any hackney carriage oarri- who demands more than the fare to which he is legally Penalties for vtbrious offonces by driver. . Every driver of a hackney carriage, who- (a) is drunk during his employment, makes use of insulting or abusive language or gesture, (c) stands elsewhere than at some stand or other place appointed for the purpose or loiters for the purpose of being hired in or upon any public street, road or place, (a) wilfully obstructs, or hinders, the driver of hkiikiid () any hackney carriage in taking up or setting down any person into, or from, such other carriage, (e) wrongfully prevents or endeavours to prevent the driver of any other hackney carriage from being hired, (f) refuses to admit and carry in such carriage the number of passengers the carriage is licensed to carny, (g) cerries more than such number of passengers, refuses to carry such quantity of lugqa. e as is provided by the by-laws under this Act, [I911 : T.N. Ast V 1 1 f j k i k $ L $ L 7 i. (i) being hired, permits or suffers any person to be carried in or upon or about such hackney carriage during such hire, without the coneent of the person hiring the same, (j) drives in any hackney carriage any animal which is not so secured as to be under the control of the driver, (k) being hired by time or distance, before he has been discharged by the hirer, wilfully deserts from the hiring, plies for hire with any carriage or animal which shall at the time be unfit for public use, (m) without previously disinfecting it knowingly uses for hire any carriage used for the conveyance of a corpse or any person suffering from any contagious or infectious disease, '[(n) refuses or neglects to give way, if he con- veniently can, to any other vehicle, refuses to obey the reasonable directions of any person hiring his carriage,] shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty tiit hih td t y rupees, or to imprisonment which may extend to one month, or to both. (1) When a complaint is made before a magis- Requisition If the owner after being duly summoned fails withoub reasonable excuse to appear or to produce the driver according to the summons, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees.

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