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Amending Section 9-402 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Animal Drawn Carriages," and Section 10-108, entitled "Rental and Carriage Horses," by making various changes to the provisions governing the animal drawn carriage business and the use of horses in such business, and amending the approved routes for animal drawn carriages; all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Section 9-402 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
ยง9-402. Animal Drawn Carriages.
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(2) License Required.
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(c) The applicant must also submit the following to the Department before the license will be issued:
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(.3) payment of an annual license fee of three hundred (300) dollars for the first carriage license obtained by a company, one hundred fifty (150) dollars for each additional carriage license obtained by a company, for up to nine (9) additional carriages, and one hundred twenty-five (125) dollars for each additional license obtained thereafter by a company for each additional carriage. The Department may from time to time by regulation revise the annual license fee (including the structure of the fee) to reflect the City's costs of regulating animal drawn carriage businesses and the special costs incurred by the City because of the operation of such businesses, including, but not limited to, the cost of extra cleaning of carriage routes.
(3) License Requirements. Every person licensed to engage in the business of operating an animal drawn carriage shall, as a condition of retaining such license, comply with each of the following:
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[(f) Carriages shall be operated only on the carriage routes approved by ordinance pursuant to subsection 9-402(4), provided that on Mondays through Fridays, no carriage may use an arterial street, as designated in the 1978 City Council Arterial Streets Use Plan, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:...
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