Penalties for various offences by driver

Every driver of a hackney carriage who— (a) is drunk during his employment, (b) makes use of insulting or abusive language or gesture, (c) stands elsewhere than at some stand or other places appointed for the purpose of loiters for the purpose of being hired in or upon any public street, road or place, (d) wilfully obstructs, or hinders, the driver of any other hackney carriage in taking up or setting down any person into, or from such other carriage; (e) wrongfully prevents or endeavours to prevent 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 licenced to carry; (g) carries more than such number of passengers; (h) refuses to carry the quantity of luggage allowed by the licence; (i) being hired, permits or suffers any person to be carried in or upon or about such hackney carriage during such hire, without the consent 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) being hired by time or distance, before he has been discharged by the hirer, wilfully deserts from the hiring; (l) plies for hire with any carriage or animal which shall at the time be unfit for public use; (m) plies for hire with any carriage which is not fitted with any suitable warning signal, such as bell, horn or other contrivance; (n) without previously disinfecting it, knowingly uses for hire any carriage used for the conveyance of a corpse or any person suffering from any contagious or infectious disease; (o) demands advance payment of fare; (p) refuses to obey the reasonable directions of any person hiring his vehicle; and (q) permits the inside of the hackney carriage of which he is in charge, to become dirty, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or to imprisonment which may extend to one month or to both.