Every street railroad company or corporation owning, controlling, leasing or operating 1 or more street railroads within the District of Columbia shall on each and all of its railroads supply and operate a sufficient number of cars, clean, sanitary, in good repair, with proper and safe power, equipment, appliances and service, comfortable and convenient, and so operate the same as to give expeditious passage, not to exceed 15 miles per hour within the city limits or 20 miles per hour in the suburbs, to all persons desirous of the use of the said cars, without crowding said cars. The Public Service Commission is hereby given power to require and compel obedience to all of the provisions of this section, and to make, alter, amend and enforce all needful rules and regulations to secure said obedience; and said Commission is given power to make all such orders and regulations necessary to the exercise of the powers herein granted to it as may be reasonable and proper; and such railroad companies or corporations, their officers and employees, are hereby required to obey all the provisions of this section, and such regulations and orders as may be made by said Commission. Any such company or corporation, or its officers or employees, violating any provision of this section, or any of the said orders or regulations made by said Commission, or permitting such violation, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000. And each day of failure or neglect on the part of such company or corporation, its officers or employees, to obey each and all of the provisions and requirements of this section, or the orders and regulations of the Commission made thereunder, shall be regarded as a separate offense.
(May 23, 1908, 35 Stat. 250, ch. 190, § 16; Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 634, Pub. L. 88-503, § 21.)
1981 Ed., § 44-202.
1973 Ed., § 44-202.
This section is referenced in § 35-203.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 35 - Railroads and Other Carriers
Chapter 2 - Street Railways and Bus Lines
§ 35–203. Prosecutions to be on information
§ 35–204. Fenders required on street cars
§ 35–205. Glass vestibules required for street car motormen; penalties; exception. [Repealed]
§ 35–206. Construction of duct lines authorized
§ 35–207. Unlawful disposition, acceptance and use of transfers
§ 35–208. Reciprocal transfer and trackage agreements
§ 35–209. Type of rails required
§ 35–210. Use of another’s underground line prohibited
§ 35–211. Removal of disused tracks; penalty for noncompliance
§ 35–212. Free transfer under reciprocal trackage agreement
§ 35–213. Free transportation of uniformed policemen and firemen. [Repealed]