Section 95 — Power of State Government to make rules as to stage carriages and contract carriages.

95. Power of State Government to make rules as to stage carriages and contract carriages.—(1) 

A State Government may make rules to regulate, in respect of stage carriages and contract carriages and 

the conduct of passengers in such vehicles. 

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may— 

(a) authorise the removal from such vehicle of any person contravening the rules by the driver or 

conductor of the vehicle, or, on the request of the driver or conductor, or any passenger, by any police 

officer; 

(b) require a passenger who is reasonably suspected by the driver or conductor of contraventing 

the rules to give his name and address to a police officer or to the driver or conductor on demand; 

(c) require a passenger to declare, if so demanded by the driver or conductor, the journey he 

intends to take or has taken in the vehicle and to pay the fare for the whole of such journey and to 

accept any ticket issued therefor; 

(d) require, on demand being made for the purpose by the driver or conductor or other person 

authorised by the owners of the vehicle, production during the journey and surrender at the end of the 

journey by the holder thereof of any ticket issued to him; 

(e) require a passenger, if so requested by the driver or conductor, to leave the vehicle on the 

completion of the journey the fare for which he has paid; 



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(f) require the surrender by the holder thereof on the expiry of the period for which it is issued of 

a ticket issued to him; 

(g) require a passenger to abstain from doing anything which is likely to obstruct or interfere with 

the working of the vehicle or to cause damage to any part of the vehicle or its equipment or to cause 

injury or discomfort to any other passenger; 

(h) require a passenger not to smoke in any vehicle on which a notice prohibiting smoking is 

exhibited; 

(i) require the maintenance of complaint books in stage carriages and prescribe the conditions 

under which passengers can record any complaints in the same.