[CC 1989 §12-91]
No person shall engage in the business of carrying passengers
for hire in motor vehicles over irregular routes of the City, such
business being commonly known as the taxicab business, until such
person shall have first obtained a license from the City authorizing
him/her to engage in such business.
[CC 1989 §12-92]
Each person engaged in the taxicab business shall pay an annual license fee as set forth in Section 605.140, for each vehicle used by him/her as a taxicab.
[CC 1989 §12-93]
Any person desiring to engage in the taxicab business shall
file with the City Council his/her written application setting out
in full the ownership, the equipment to be used and the rates proposed
to be changed. The City Clerk shall present such application to the
City Council at the next succeeding meeting thereafter for action
thereon.
[CC 1989 §12-94]
Each applicant for a taxicab business license, by applying for
such license or qualifying under this Article, shall be considered
to have expressly agreed to comply with all the provisions of this
Article or any other ordinance regulating the taxicab business, and
to have agreed that the City shall have the right and authority to
determine and fix reasonable rates to be charged for the services
to be rendered by the holders of licenses under this Article, and
to have further agreed that any violation of any provision of this
Article shall render any license issued hereunder cancelable or revocable
by the City Council at its discretion.
[CC 1989 §12-95; Ord. No. 10-027 §1, 12-13-2010]
A.Â
Each
applicant for a taxicab business license or renewal of such license
under this Article shall file with the City Clerk an insurance policy,
to the satisfaction of the City Clerk and the Chief of Police, providing
insurance coverage for each taxicab owned, operated or leased by the
applicant and shall bind the obligor thereof to make compensation
for injuries and/or death to persons and loss of or damage to personal
property resulting from the negligent, lawful or unlawful operation
of any vehicle operating at any time under the applicant's permit,
whether such vehicle is licensed or not, in a combined sum of not
less than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) per occurrence.
B.Â
Every
insurance policy required hereunder shall extend for a period covered
by the license or renewal thereof applied for, and the insurer shall
be obliged to give not less than thirty (30) days' written notice
to the City Council and to the insured before cancellation or termination
thereof earlier than its expiration date, and the cancellation or
other termination of any such policy shall automatically revoke and
terminate the license issued for the taxicab business covered by such
policy, unless another insurance policy complying with the provisions
of this Section shall be provided and be in effect at the time of
such cancellation or termination.
[CC 1989 §12-96]
No motor vehicle shall be placed in service as a taxicab until
it has been licensed as a taxicab and until the owner or lessee thereof
shall have been issued a taxicab business license by the City Council,
and the number of vehicle licenses issued each year shall not exceed
eighteen (18), provided that additional taxicab vehicle licenses may
be issued upon a petition and application therefor presented to the
City Council, when upon a hearing thereon a majority of the Council
finds that the public convenience and necessity requires or will require
such additional taxicab vehicle licenses to be issued.
[CC 1989 §12-97]
A.Â
Each
operator of a taxicab business shall file an application with the
City Council showing the year, model, make, style, motor number and
serial number of each vehicle proposed to be placed in service as
a taxicab and showing from whom each vehicle was purchased and a list
of all encumbrances or liens thereon; and he/she shall make each vehicle
available to the Chief of Police to make an inspection to determine
if it is a fit and safe vehicle to be placed in public service.
B.Â
A taxicab
business licensee may obtain a taxicab vehicle license in his/her
name to operate a vehicle not owned by him/her if he/she presents
with his/her application a copy of a written lease, duly filed with
the City Clerk, between the owner of such vehicle and himself/herself
by the terms of which the owner shall deliver unto him/her full and
complete control and right of possession of such vehicle, and the
taxicab business licensee shall assume full and complete responsibility
and liability for any personal injuries, death or property damage
due to the unlawful or negligent operation of such vehicle at any
time during the term of such lease, which shall be irrevocable during
the term of which such license is issued.
[CC 1989 §12-98]
If the Chief of Police, upon inspection of any vehicle, rejects
it as unsafe, no license shall be issued therefor, but if he/she approves
it, he/she shall endorse his/her approval on the application, and
the taxicab business operator shall present the application to the
City Clerk, together with the license fee required by this Article,
and the City Clerk shall assign a license number to such vehicle and
the licensee shall cause to be painted on each front door of such
vehicle in letters and figures the following:
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LICENSED CAB NO.
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__________________
(Insert License No. Here)
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______________________________________
(Insert the Name of Operating Company Owner)
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The letters shall not be smaller than three (3) inches in height
and the figures not be less than four (4) inches in height.
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[CC 1989 §12-99]
A license number assigned to a vehicle taken out of service
may be reassigned to a different vehicle placed in service by the
same licensee, and the license issued for the vehicle taken out of
service may be transferred to such other vehicle owned or leased by
the same licensee, upon application made in the same manner as for
the original license, but in no event will any license fee be refunded.
[CC 1989 §12-100]
Licenses issued under this Article shall not be assignable or
transferable, except as provided in this Article for the transfer
of vehicle license numbers.
[CC 1989 §12-101]
All licenses issued under this Article may be suspended or revoked
by the City Council for the violation of any of the provisions of
this Article or any other ordinance regulating the taxicab business,
after reasonable notice and hearing before the City Council, or if
at any time the City Council shall find the operator or licensee no
longer possesses the qualifications to retain such license.
[CC 1989 §12-102]
No taxicab business license shall establish or maintain a parking
place or stand on the streets of the City except by express authority
of the City Council.
