46. Licensing authority (1) The Licensing Authority shall be the Secretary of the respective Regional Transport Authority.
(2) The Additional licensing authorities shall be the Additional Secretaries of the Regional Transport Authorities as specified in the Fourth Schedule to these rules and also the executive staff of Transport Department not below the rank of Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspector in the Districts and the Superintendents in the office of the Regional Transport Authorities.
(3) The additional licensing authorities shall exercise their powers subject to the general control and guidance of licensing authorities concerned.
47. Form of application for Conductor's Licence :- An application for conductor's Licence shall be made in writing in Form CLA and shall be accompanied by two clear copies of a recent photograph of the applicant, the medical certificate of fitness in Form MCC and the fee prescribed.
48. Photograph to be affixed to medical certificate :- The medical certificate referred to in Rule 47 shall be affixed with a photograph in addition to the two copies of photographs required in Rule 47. The photograph to be affixed to the medical certificate of fitness in Form MCC shall be firmly affixed and not merely pinned to the Form and the prescribed registered medical practitioner shall affix his signature or seal to the photograph in addition to signing the Form.
49. Rejection of old certificate :- The Licensing Authority may decline to accept a medical certificate of fitness granted more than one month prior to the date of application for the grant of Licence.
50. Photograph size :- The copies of the photograph required by sub-section (3) of Section 30 shall be of a size not more than 51 millimeters by 64 millimeters.
51. Sealing of photograph :- The photograph, of the holder when affixed to a Licence shall be sealed or stamped with the seal of the licensing authority in such a manner that part of the impression of the seal or stamp is upon the photograph and part on the margin.
52. Licensing Authority to make enquiry :- Upon receipt of an application for a conductor's Licence, the licensing authority may make such enquiries as may be necessary to establish the identity of the applicant and to ascertain that the applicant is not disqualified for holding a Licence.
53. Form of Licence :- A conductor's Licence shall be granted in Form CL.
54. Educational Qualifications :- No person shall be granted a conductor's Licence unless he has studied upto and inclusive of III Form or VIII standard.
Provided that this rule shall not apply to any person who immediately before these rules came into force was in possession of conductor's Licence issued by a competent authority.
55. Training in First-Aid :- No person shall be granted a conductor's Licence unless he has undergone training in First-Aid and is in possession of a certificate issued by the St. John Ambulance Association (India), a Civil Surgeon or an Assistant Civil Surgeon or by such other authority as the Government may by notification in the Telangana Gazette, declare to be competent to issue such certificates.
56. Summoning of the Applicant for a Test :- The licensing authority to which application is made for a conductor's Licence may, summon the application to appear before it at such time and place as the authority may appoint and conduct a test to satisfy itself whether he has adequate knowledge of the provisions of these rules relating to the duties and functions of a conductor. No person shall be granted a conductor's Licence unless he satisfies the licensing authority in this behalf.
57. Application for renewal :- An application for the renewal of a conductor's Licence shall be made in Form CLRA and shall contain the declaration required by that Form. It shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed.
58. Intimation to original licensing authority :- When the authority renewing the Licence is not the authority which issued the Licence, it shall intimate the facto or renewal to the authority which issued the Licence in Form LRAD.
59. Duplicate Licence :- The provisions of rules as applicable shall so far as may be, apply in relation to driving Licence.
Provided that the fee for the issue of duplicate conductor's Licence shall be ten rupees only.
60. Cancellation of Suspension by Court :- The Court making of causing to be made an endorsement on a conductor's Licence under sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 24 read with Section 36 shall send information in Form LE to the licensing authority by which the Licence was issued and to the licensing authority by which it was last renewed.
61. Production of Licence on Demand :- A conductor of a stage carriage shall on demand by any Police Officer in uniform or any officer of Transport Department of and above the rank of Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspector or any Magistrate produce his conductor's Licence for inspection:
Provided that if at the time his Licence is demanded, he is displaying the badge prescribed in Rule 66 it shall be sufficient compliance with this rule if he produces the Licence within ten days at any police station in the State which he specifies to the authority making the demand.
62. Only one Licence to be effective :- No person shall hold more than one conductor's Licence.
63. Appellate Authority :- (1) The authority empowered under sub-section (2) of Section 33 to hear appeals against the orders of a licensing authority shall be the Deputy Transport Commissioner concerned.
Provided that the appellate authority against the orders of the Secretary, Regional Transport Authority of the rank of the Joint Transport Commissioner or the Deputy Transport Commissioner shall be the Transport Commissioner.
64. Form of Appeal :- (1) An appeal under Rule 63 shall be in the form of a memorandum in duplicate setting forth concisely the grounds of objections to the order appealed against and shall be accompanied by the original or a certified copy of that order. A fee of twenty rupees shall be paid in respect of each appeal.
(2) The Secretary, State Transport Authority, the Deputy Transport Commissioner and the Secretary, Regional Transport Authority, may, in this discretion, give any person interested in an appeals in sub-rule (1) copies of relevant documents connected with the appeal on payment of a fee of two rupees, such payment being made by means of court fee stamps affixed to the application for each such copy of the document.
(3) The appellate authority after giving an opportunity to the parties of being heard and after such further enquiries, if any, as it may deem necessary may confirm, modify or set aside the order appealed against and shall make an order accordingly.
65. Report of change of permanent address :- (1) The holder of a Licence shall, except in the case of a temporary absence not involving a change of residence for a period exceeding three moths, report any change of his temporary or temporary address as notified on the Licence at any police station and produce the Licence at the police station in order that the new address may be entered therein.
(2) The officer-in-charge of the police station at which the Licence is produced shall enter therein the new address and communicate the new address to licensing authority by which the Licence was issued and to the licensing authority by which it was last renewed.
66. Conductor's Badge :- (1) The conductor of a stage carriage shall, while on duty, display on his left breast a metal badge of prescribed dimensions as illustrated in the Second Schedule to these rules issued by and inscribed with the name of the district of the authority by which the conductor's Licence is granted and the word "CONDUCTOR" together with the identification number. A badge grated under this rule shall be valid throughout the State.
(2) A conductor shall not hold more than one such badge issued by an authority in the State.
(3) The conductor of a stage carriage shall while on duty, in addition to the badge display on his right breast a plate in white plastic of size 8 cm x 2 cm inscribed, with his name in bold black letters of size 0.5 cm. both in English and Telugu one below the other respectively. The cost of the name plate shall be borne by wearer himself.
67. Badge issued under old rules :- A conductor's badge which valid immediately before coming into force of these rules shall be valid for purposes of these rules.
68. Fee for issue of badge and issue of new badge, in case it is lost or destroyed :- (1) The fee payable for the issue of badge under rule 66 shall be [fifty rupees]. If at any time the badge is lost or destroyed, its holder shall forthwith give intimation thereof in writing to the licensing authority which issued the badge and may apply for new badge. Such application shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty rupees.
(2) Upon receipt of the application and the fee therefore, the licensing authority shall issue a new badge within one week.
(3) If the badge which has been lost or destroyed, is subsequently found it shall be surrendered to the said licensing authority.
69. Surrender of badge :- If, at any time, a licensing authority revokes or refuses to renew a conductor's Licence, or if a conductor is disqualified from holding a Licence by any Court or licensing authority or if the Licence ceases to be valid by efflux of time, the conductor shall forthwith surrender the badge to the authority by which it was issued.
70. Custody of badge :- No conductor shall lend or transfer the badge prescribed in these rules to any other person. The badge shall be produced for inspection when demanded by a police officer in uniform or any other person empowered to stop a stage carriage under Rule 288.
71. Person finding badge to surrender :- Any person finding a conductors badge shall unless he returns the same to a person whom he knows to be the holder, forthwith surrender it to any licensing authority or to any police officer.
72. Stage carriage to carry conductors :- No stage carriage shall be used in a public place unless it carries in addition to the driver a conductor.
Provided that a stage carriage may be driven to its destination without a conductor if, on account of sudden illness or for any other valid reason, the conductor is unable to carry on his duties.
Provided further that transport authority may allow a stage carriage to be driven without a conductor subject to the condition that tickets are issued before the start of the journey by a person who is not the conductor and who is not traveling in the vehicle and subject to such other conditions as the transport authority may deem fit.
Provided also that a transport authority may permit the driver of a stage carriage to perform the functions of a conductor subject to the condition that he is qualified to hold the post of a conductor and subject to such other conditions as the transport authority may deem fit.
(Provided also that a Transport Authority may permit the driver of a stage carriage to perform the functions of a conductor by issuing tickets through Ticket Issuing Machines subject to such other conditions as the Transport Authority may deem fit.)
Explanation :- In this rule, transport authority shall means the authority by which the stage carriage permit of the vehicle was granted or last renewed under the Act.
73. Refusal to issue tickets:- No conductor or other person authorized to accept fares, when a stage carriage is waiting or plying for hire shall :-
» without reasonable excuse, refuse to accept a fare from any person tendering it, provided that the conductor or such other person shall stop the issue of tickets when the maximum number of passengers or the maximum load or luggage or goods, as the case may be, which the vehicle is permitted to carry has been reached; or
» demand more than the proper fare.
74. Duties of Conductors :- Every conductor of a stage carriage on duty,
(i) shall as far as may reasonably be possible having regard to his duties, be responsible for the due observance of the provisions of Act and of these rules;
(ii) shall not smoke;
(iii) shall behave in a civil and orderly manner to passengers and intending passengers;
(iv) shall wear a uniform a closed coat with brass buttons and trousers of khaki or navy blue colour and also a forage cap of the same colour as head gear.
Provided that in the case of employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation the uniform fixed by the Corporation shall be worn;
» shall maintain the vehicle in a clean and sanitary condition;
» shall not interfere with persons mounting or preparing to mount upon any other vehicle.
» shall not solicit custom save in a civil and quiet manner;
» shall not allow any person to be carried in any stage carriage in excess of the capacity specified in the permit of the vehicle;
» shall not, save for good and sufficient reason, refuse to carry any person tendering the legal fare;
» shall, where luggage and personal effects of passengers are carried on the vehicle in addition to passengers, take all reasonable precautions to ensure that passengers are not endangered or unduly inconvenienced by the presence of the luggage and personal effects;
» shall not, save for good and sufficient reason, require any person who has paid the legal fare to alight from the vehicle before the conclusion of the journey;
» shall not loiter or unduly delay on any journey;
» shall, in the event of the stage carriage being unable to proceed to its destination on account of mechanical breakdown or other cause beyond the control of the driver or the conductor, arrange to convey the passengers to their destination in some other similar vehicle or, if unable to do so arrange within two hours after the failure of the vehicle, shall on demand refund to each passenger a proper proportion of the fare relating to the completion of the journey for which the passenger has paid the fare;
» shall not, in the case of a stage carriage, cause or allow anything to be placed in the vehicle in such a manner as to obstruct the entry or exit of passengers;
» shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent luggage being miscarried or lost or damaged on the way and shall be reasonable for the safe custody and delivery of the luggage kept on the luggage carrier on the roof of the vehicle;
» shall not be under the influence of drink or of a drug;
» shall call upon every passenger to declare the journey he intends to perform and demand from him the fare chargeable therefore and shall not allow any passenger to alight or attempt to alight without collecting the fare payable and without issuing a ticket therefore.
But nothing herein shall apply to passenger who holds a pass or who need not pay the fare on account of bus warrants issued under and in accordance with the rules in force.
75. Issue of tickets, productions of counterfoils :- The conductors shall,
(a) on receipt of the fare charged issue to every passenger traveling or intending to travel in a stage carriage including every child over three years of age and to every person from whom freight charges have been collected for conveying goods or luggage or personal effects a separate ticket of the requisite denomination with stage and fare printed thereon:
(b) carry at all times when the stage carriage is in use the counterfoils of the tickets so issued, and produce the counter foil on demand by any police officer in uniform or any other person empowered to stop a stage carriage under Rule 288.
Provided that Clause (b) shall not apply to cases where tickets are issued by means of bell-punch machine or other device approved by the State Transport Authority and the conductor keeps a record of the number and values of the tickets issued. Such records shall be produced on demand by any police officer in uniform or any other person empowered to stop a stage carriage under Rule 288.
Provided further that notwithstanding the provisions of this rule, the licensing authority may in its discretion, and subject to such conditions as it may deem fit authorize the issue of tickets by a person who is not the conductor and who in not traveling in the vehicle.
76. Exemption :- (1) A person who is qualified for the post of a conductor but who does not hold a conductors Licence may be permitted by the Secretary of a Regional Transport Authority to act as conductor of a stage carriage for a period not exceeding one month at a time, provided that no Licenced conductor is available or that non of those who are available is willing to act as conductor of the stage carriage concerned.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 29 shall not apply to employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation, who belong to any of the following classes and who are deputed to act as conductors for period not exceeding one month at a time.
» Depot Clerks
» Assistant Depot Clerks
» Travelling Ticket Inspectors
» Controllers
» Traffic Inspectors
» Traffic Clerks
» Drivers
77. Issuing Authority of Medical Certificate :- (1) The Authority to issue a medical certificate under sub-section (3) of Section 30 shall be of and above the rank of Assistant Civil Surgeon or as may be authorized by Government.
78. Fee for issue of Medical Certificate :- The fee chargeable by the authority issuing a medical certificate shall not exceed rupees fifteen.