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Subdivision A
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General Provisions
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[Code 1964, § 24-82]
The commissioner may suspend or revoke any license required
by the provisions of this article where the holder has failed to comply
with any of the provisions of this article. No license shall be suspended
or revoked, however, without a hearing at which the holder may present
proof and cross-examine witnesses. The method of holding a hearing
shall be the same as provided in the rules and regulations for the
bureau of police and bureau of fire for hearings held in these bureaus.
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Subdivision B
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Vehicle License
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[Code 1964, § 24-58]
No taxicab or rental vehicle shall operate for hire within the
city unless the owner has first obtained a vehicle license from the
commissioner. The license shall be issued as of January 1 and shall
expire on December 31 next succeeding, unless sooner suspended or
revoked by the commissioner; provided, however, that the vehicle license
may be renewed during the fifteen-day period immediately preceding
January 1 of each year.
[Code 1964, § 24-60]
Application for a taxicab or rental vehicle license shall be
filed with the commissioner upon forms which shall be provided by
the city. The date and time of the receipt of each application shall
be noted by the city.
[Code 1964, § 24-59]
The license fee for each taxicab or rental vehicle shall be
$10.
[Code 1964, § 24-61]
Each taxicab or rental vehicle license shall pertain not only
to the vehicle which is in operation at the time of the passage of
this article but shall also pertain to any replacement of the vehicle,
provided the replacement complies with the provisions of this article
and the regulations of the commissioner. Prior to the granting of
a license for any replacement, the owner of the replacement vehicle
shall file an application for the replacement on forms to be provided
by the city for that purpose and shall pay a fee of $1 for each vehicle
license so obtained.
[Code 1964, § 24-62]
A new taxicab or rental vehicle license may be issued by the
commissioner in place of a license surrendered, provided the applicant
has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the
applicant is qualified to assume the duties and obligations of a vehicle
owner as imposed by the provisions of this article, and the applicant
assumes, agrees to pay and satisfies the commissioner of the applicant's
ability to discharge all the outstanding tort liabilities of the vendor
or transferor incurred after the enactment of this article in excess
of the amount covered by any bond or policy of insurance required
by the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
[Code 1964, § 24-65(a)]
No taxicab or rental vehicle shall be licensed until it has
been thoroughly examined and inspected and found to comply with such
reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commissioner.
These rules and regulations shall be promulgated to provide safe vehicular
transportation and shall specify, among other things, the safety equipment
and other regulatory devices the commissioner deems necessary.
[Code 1964, § 24-63]
The holder of a taxicab or rental vehicle license shall be ordered
by the commissioner to replace the vehicle where it appears that the
vehicle no longer meets with the reasonable standards of safe operation
prescribed by the commissioner. Upon failure of the owner to comply
with any order to replace the vehicle within 120 days after service
of the order, the license shall be deemed to have been abandoned by
the nonuser.
[Code 1964, § 24-64]
The commissioner may revoke any taxicab or rental vehicle license
for nonuse if the commissioner determines that the vehicle has not
been operated for 60 consecutive days, provided that the failure to
operate has not been caused by strike, riot, war or other public catastrophe
or that the owner has sold the vehicle and has failed to replace the
vehicle within 120 days from the date of sale. However, if it is shown
to the commissioner by competent proof that an owner-driver has been
disabled through illness, the license shall not be revoked because
of nonuse as provided in this section.
[Code 1964, § 24-66]
The commissioner shall refuse a taxicab or rental vehicle license
to issue or, if already issued, suspend the license of any vehicle
found to be unfit for operation.
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Subdivision C
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Taxicab Driver's License
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[Code 1964, § 24-69]
No person shall drive a taxicab within the city without first
having obtained a taxicab driver's license from the city.
[Code 1964, § 24-70(a), (d); Ord. No. 183, 6-21-1995]
(a)
Qualifications. Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license
shall comply with the following:
(1)
The applicant must be of the age of 21 years or over.
(2)
If any restrictions or limitations exist on applicant's
state chauffeur's license, applicant must disclose same on his
or her application and produce copies of whatever documentation the
state department of vehicles requires with respect to such restriction
or limitation at the time of application. Applicant shall continue
to provide to the city police department copies of any such documentation
whenever same is required to be submitted to the department of motor
vehicles.
(3)
The applicant must be able to speak, read and write the English
language.
(4)
The applicant must be clean in dress and not addicted to the
use of drugs or intoxicating liquors.
(5)
The applicant must produce, on forms to be provided by the commissioner,
fingerprints of the applicant, affidavits of the applicant's
good character from two reputable citizens of the city who have known
the applicant personally and observed the applicant's conduct
during one year next preceding the date of application and a further
testimonial, on a form provided for that purpose, from the last employer
unless, in the opinion of the commissioner, sufficient reason is given
for its omission.
(6)
The applicant must hold a state chauffeur's license.
(b)
Rules and regulations. The commissioner may establish additional
rules and regulations governing the issuance of drivers' licenses,
not inconsistent with this division, as may be necessary.
[Code 1964, § 24-70(b)]
An application for a taxicab drivers' licenses must be
filed with the commissioner through the bureau of police, in duplicate,
and must be accompanied by the required license fee. The application
shall be on a form provided by the commissioner and must be sworn
to before a notary public. The application shall contain a statement
giving the applicant's full name, residence, place of residence
for five years prior to the applicant's present address, age,
color, height, color of eyes and hair, place of birth, length of time
the applicant has resided in the city, whether a citizen of the United
States, place of previous employment, whether married or single and
whether the applicant has ever been convicted of a felony.
[Code 1964, § 24-70(c)]
Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license must file
with the application two recent photographs of the applicant, of a
size which may be easily attached to the license, one of which shall
be attached to the license when issued, the other to be filed with
the application.
[Code 1964, § 24-74]
The following fees shall be paid for a taxicab driver's
license:
[Code 1964, § 24-71]
(a)
Upon the satisfactory fulfillment of the requirements of this subdivision,
there shall be issued to the applicant a taxicab driver's license
which shall be in such form as the bureau of police may direct.
(b)
A driver's license shall be issued as of January 1 in each and
every year and shall be valid to and including the December 31 next
succeeding; provided however, that the driver's license may be
renewed during the fifteen-day period immediately preceding January
1 of each year.
[Code 1964, § 24-73]
The commissioner may renew a taxicab driver's license from
year to year. A driver in applying for a renewal of the license shall
make application upon a form to be furnished by the commissioner entitled
"Application for Renewal of License" which shall be filled out with
the full name and address of the applicant, together with a statement
of the date upon which the original license was granted and the number
of the license.
[Code 1964, § 24-83]
(a)
The commissioner may suspend or revoke any taxicab driver's
license if the driver has failed to comply with the conditions of
this article. If a taxicab driver's license is revoked, the driver's
identification card shall be returned to the commissioner.
(b)
Should a driver fail to display the proper identification card or
badge or permit another to use the identification card or badge or
display an identification card or badge other than the driver's
own, the taxicab driver's license shall be revoked and the action
of the driver shall constitute a violation of this article and shall
be punishable as such.
[Code 1964, § 24-72]
Any holder of a taxicab driver's license who defaces, removes
or obliterates any official entry made upon the license shall be punished
by revocation of the license.
[Code 1964, § 24-75]
There shall be kept in the department of public safety a complete
record of all taxicab driver's licenses issued and of all renewals,
suspensions and revocations of licenses. The record shall be kept
on file with the original application for the license.
