[Ord. No. 94-8, § I(12.01), 4-11-1994]
A license for the operation of horse-drawn carriages is required. A license fee shall be set from time to time by the Council for each company operating such horse-drawn carriage business.
[Code 1992, § 12.18(6)]
Horse-drawn carriages shall be operated according to the following:
(1) 
Routes. Licensees must adhere to the routes specified in their application for an operating license. New or temporary routes must be applied for and approved by the License and Judicial Committee and filed with the City Clerk before a licensee may use the new or temporary routes. Any deviance from these applications without the approval of the License and Judicial Committee and filing with the City Clerk shall be a violation of this division.
(2) 
Operator driving time limit. No operator shall be allowed to drive a horse-drawn vehicle for more than a period of 10 hours in any twenty-four-hour day.
(3) 
Sanitation requirements. Licensees shall comply with the following sanitation requirements:
a. 
All horses, mules and other animals shall be equipped with adequate devices to prevent manure and other excrement from falling upon the streets of the City. If any such manure and other excrement should fall upon the streets, then it shall be removed at the expense of the licensee.
b. 
All animal waste for disposal shall be promptly transported to sites or facilities legally empowered to accept it for treatment or disposal. The City reserves the right to approve or disapprove sites taking into account routes within the City and the rules and regulations of the governmental body having jurisdiction over such sites or facilities.
(4) 
Feeding and care of animals. Licensees shall ensure adequate rest periods, feeding schedules, health and related animal performance and well-being for each animal under the licensee's ownership, care or control. This responsibility shall include carriage load limits, hours of operation and daily hours of animal usage, except that no animal shall be required to work more than 10 hours per day. No animal shall be left unattended while in service.
(5) 
Certificate of soundness required. For each animal that will be pulling a permitted vehicle, licensees shall provide a certificate of soundness issued by a veterinarian licensed in the state, finding such animal to be free from infectious disease, in good health and fit for hack and carriage service under this division. Each animal shall thereafter be reinspected at intervals of no more than six months, and a certificate of soundness shall be issued by a veterinarian and filed with the City in order for each animal to remain in service. No animal shall be used to draw a horse-drawn vehicle without such certificate of soundness, certified and dated within any preceding six-month period.