The following regulations shall be observed in the operation and driving
of every taxicab upon the streets of the Village.
The driver of every taxicab shall remain in the driver's compartment
at all times or immediately adjacent to his taxicab when such vehicle is in
any public place, except that when necessary, a driver may be absent from
his cab for not more than 30 consecutive minutes.
A.
No taxicab driver shall solicit passengers, except while
parked or standing at a taxi stand and except when sitting in the driver's
compartment of such taxicab or while standing immediately adjacent thereto,
nor in a loud or annoying tone of voice nor by sign nor in any manner annoy
or obstruct the movement of or follow any person for the purpose of soliciting
patronage.
B.
No taxicab shall cruise in search of passengers.
No taxicab driver shall stop to pick up any additional passengers while
proceeding to the destination of any passengers then occupying the taxicab
without the consent of all such passengers.
No taxicab driver shall permit more persons to be carried in his taxicab
than the number for which he has approved seating facilities.
Except as provided in § 188-38 hereof, no taxicab driver shall refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person upon request unless previously engaged to full capacity.
If a taxicab is transporting two or more persons to different destinations,
the driver shall be the sole judge of the order in which such persons shall
be transported to their destinations and the route which shall be followed
in transporting them.
Every taxicab driver shall obey all traffic laws, ordinances, rules
and regulations while driving a taxicab and, upon receipt of a summons or
his arrest for any alleged violation of any such law, ordinance, rule or regulation,
shall report the same within 10 days to the Village Clerk, advising him of
the nature of the offense charged and the name and location of the court and
the date on which such summons is returnable or on which the hearing or trial
is to be held.
No taxicab shall park or stand on any public street or place other than
at a taxi stand designated or established and so marked pursuant to a resolution
of the Board of Trustees, except between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00
a.m.
No passenger in a taxicab shall be kept waiting longer than five minutes
before proceeding to his announced destination.
All accidents in which any taxicab shall be involved shall be reported
to the Police Department within 24 hours after the happening thereof.
Every taxicab driver, as soon as practicable after his taxicab is emptied
of passengers, shall carefully search his taxicab for any property lost or
left therein by any passenger and, if he shall find any such property, shall
immediately deliver it to the Police Department.
No person, other than the driver or a passenger, shall enter any taxicab
while it is in operation as such.
A.
Duty of driver; contents. Every driver shall keep a written
trip card, showing the time and place each passenger engaged his taxicab and
the time and place he left such taxicab, on a form approved by the Police
Department. This trip card must also show the time that such driver went on
and off duty. Such record shall be retained by the owner of such taxicab for
at least one year.
B.
Records. Every owner shall retain and preserve all trip
cards in a safe place, and such trip cards shall be available to the Police
Department of the Village.
