The board of supervisors may establish and license toll ferries, and fix the toll; and where the public convenience and travel justifies it, may establish and maintain free ferries, or in its discretion toll ferries at public expense; and the board of supervisors shall fix the salary of the ferryman or ferrymen to run such […]
Any county or municipality authorized to construct bridges and issue bridge revenue bonds to pay the cost thereof is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase any competing ferry or ferries within fifteen miles of any such bridge, and to include the cost thereof as a part of the cost of construction of such bridge.
The owner or keeper of every ferry shall at all times be provided with good and tight boats suited to the ferry, sufficient in size, strength, steadiness, and accommodation for the safe and speedy transportation of passengers, vehicles, horses, cattle, and goods, well furnished with all necessary machinery, oars, poles, and other appliances, and men, […]
Every ferryman shall give constant and diligent attendance at his ferry and shall not deny or unreasonably delay carrying over any passenger, horse, cattle, carriage, or goods; and all passengers shall be received into the ferryboat and carried over the ferry in the order of their arrival, or first coming to the ferry. Any ferryman […]
The owner or keeper of every toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, and plank road shall put up, in a convenient place, so as to be open and visible to travelers, a copy of the table of rates of toll established by the board of supervisors, printed, written, or painted in legible characters. For every day’s […]
Every ferryman shall have authority to keep out or put out of his ferry boat or other vessel any person who shall attempt or press to enter or stay in his boat or vessel contrary to his orders. Any person so doing, contrary to order, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, be […]
The owner or keeper of any ferry established according to law, on any stream of water being the dividing line between two counties, shall have the right of landing on the opposite side of the stream in the other county and to unload any passengers, wagons, carriages and their loading, and stock of all kinds […]
The owner of the soil over which any toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road is established shall have the preference over all other persons to be licensed to keep the same, upon complying with the law and the orders of the board of supervisors within the time fixed by the board.
Every person licensed to keep a toll ferry shall give bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president and clerk of the board of supervisors, payable to the county, and in a penalty of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, to be fixed by the […]
The bond given by the keeper of a toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road may be put in suit by the county, or by any person damaged, for a breach thereof; and the bond may be sued on from time to time until the whole penalty be recovered. The board of supervisors may […]
All penalties and forfeitures incurred by the owner or keeper of a toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road may be recovered by suit on the bond of the owner or keeper, one half to go to the person who sues for it, the other half to be paid into the county treasury; and […]
