§ 6-2. License required.

(a) Registration number to be displayed.

All hackney coaches, buggies, cabs, and gigs, kept for hire, and all wagons, furniture carriages, carts, drays, package carts, boats (other than open rowboats of every description), and scows, owned or commonly used or employed in the City, shall be numbered with plain conspicuous figures, on plates of tin, to be provided as hereinafter directed, to begin with number 1 and so on progressively.

(b) Owners to register annually.

The owner or owners of such carriages, boats, or scows, shall:

(1) appear annually at the office of the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing;

(2) have entered in a book kept for that purpose:

(i) the name and place of abode;

(ii) the description of every carriage, boat, or scow owned by the owner or owners; and

(iii) the number thereon to be affixed; and

(3) take out a license containing his or her number, and signed by the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, with the City Seal affixed to it.

No owner is permitted to use or employ, or let for hire on any street, lane, or alley, nor in any water within the City, any hackney coach, buggy, cab, or gig, kept for hire, wagon, furniture carriage, cart, dray, package cart, boat (other than an open rowboat), or scow, until he or she first complies with the regulations contained in this subtitle.