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Every driver of a hackney carriage, who- vtbrious offonces 1 1 by driver. (a) is drunk during his employment, f j (6) 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 any hackney carriage in taking up or setting down any person into, or from, such other carriage, (e) wrongfully prevents or endeavours to pre- vent 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 passen- gers, (8) refuses to carry such quantity of lugqa. e as is provided by the by-laws under this Act, 1911 : T.N. Aot Vj Haobey Carriage k 713 (i) being hired, permits or suffers any person i 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 $ (k) being hired by time or distance, before he L has been discharged by the hirer, wilfully deserts 7 from the hiring, i. (1) plies for hire with any carriage or animal which shall at the time be unfit for public use, (m) without previously disinfecting it know- ingly uses for hire any carriage used for the conve- yance 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, (0) refuses to obey the reasonable directions of any person hiring his carriage,] shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment which may extend to one month, or to both.