Page 1 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PRICHARD, ALABAMA, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. All motor transportation companies or operators of vehicles carrying passengers for hire in the City of Prichard and {ts police juris- diction, shall at all times provide equal but separate accomodation for the white and colored races, by providing separate vehicles or separate compartments on each vehicle or by deviding the vehicle by a partition constructed of metal, wood, strong cloth or other material as to obstruct the vision between the sections, and shall also distinquish the separate sections for the hes accomodation of the races, The Conductor or agent of the motor transportation company in charge of any vehicle ts authorized and required to assign each passenger to the division of the vehicle designated for the race to which such Passenger belongs; and if the gp tay og refuses to occupy the division of the vehicle, to which he or she is so assigned by the Conductor or agent of such transportation company, such conductor or agent of such motor transbortation company may refuse to carry such passenger on said vehicle. SECTION 2. All drivers or other employees while in charge of motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire in the City of Prichard and its police jurisdiction, are hereby vested with the police power of police officers of the City of Prichard to carry out the provisions of this ordinance, and any person failing or refusing to stay in the section of the vehicle assigned to his or her race by the driver of such vehicle, orother person in charge thereof, shall be guilty of an offense against the City of Prichard, SECTION 3, It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire in the City of Prichard and its police jurisdiction, to be op- erated on such public streets and highways with a greater load than twenty-five per cent in excess of its rated earrying capacity which vehicle shall have stamped thereon in a conspictous place, its rated seating capacity. SECTION }, All operators of motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire in the City of Prichard and its police jurisdiction, and the owners of ref such vehicle, who shall fail or refuse to enforce the provisions of $s ordinance shall be guilty of an offense against the City of Prichard _ and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $100.00 and may also be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than six months, one or both at the discretion of the Judge trying the case. SECTION 5. Each trip of any such vehicle into the City of Prichard or tts police jurisdiction, in violation of this ordinance, shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 6, ates | in this ordinance shall be construde as prohibiting po = of the races by providing separate vehicles or traflers refor, : Adopted and approved this the 7th day of May, 1956.