Every Class A taxicab shall have affixed thereto a taximeter of a size, design and make approved by the Police Commissioner, and no person shall use or permit to be used or driven for hire a Class A taxicab to which is attached a taximeter that has not been duly approved and inspected. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing the Police Commissioner to arbitrarily, unreasonably or capriciously limit approval of taximeters to one particular size, design, make or manufacture, provided that the taximeter offered by a Class A taxicab owner is capable of registering fares accurately and within the tolerances of accuracy prescribed by §
110-45 of this article, and provided further that such taximeter is otherwise capable of meeting and meets generally recognized reasonable standards of excellence and efficiency and all other requirements of this article.
No license shall be issued for a Class A taxicab until the taximeter
attached thereto shall have been inspected and found accurate by a
representative of the Police Department designated by the Police Commissioner.
All taximeters shall be sealed with a seal pressed by a representative
of the Police Department designated by the Police Commissioner. No
Class A taxicab shall be used or driven for hire without such a seal
affixed to the taximeter. If such seal is broken, the Class A taxicab
shall not be used or driven for hire until the taximeter has been
reinspected and rescaled, nor shall any person use or permit to be
used a Class A taxicab for hire unless the taximeter affixed thereto
is in all respects in proper operating order. If such taximeter does
not properly operate or does not operate, the owner or driver shall
promptly report the same to the Police Department and immediately
cause the same to be repaired, reinspected and resealed as herein
provided.
No person shall use or permit to be used upon any Class A taxicab
a taximeter which shall be in such condition as to be over 3% incorrect
on the mileage and 5% incorrect on the clock time to the prejudice
of the passenger.
After sundown, the face of every taximeter shall be illuminated
by a suitable white light of at least two candlepower, so arranged
and designed as to throw a continuous, steady light thereon making
visible the fare dials to the occupants of the Class A taxicab. The
taximeter of each Class A taxicab shall otherwise be so arranged and
lighted that the meter and fare dials will at all times be discernible
to and capable of being read by any passenger or occupant in the Class
A taxicab.
The flag of the taximeter shall be kept in a recording position
at all times when the Class A taxicab is occupied. At all other times,
the flag shall be kept in a nonrecording, vacant position and when
in such position shall be visible from the street.
Taximeters shall be inspected at least once in every six months
by a representative of the Police Department designated by the Police
Commissioner.
No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business
of repairing, adjusting or calibrating taximeters or taximeter equipment
for use upon any Class A taxicab in the City of Yonkers without having
first obtained a permit or license from the Police Commissioner, and
no taximeter or taximeter equipment used upon any Class A taxicab
in the City of Yonkers shall be repaired, adjusted or calibrated by
any person, firm or corporation who or which has not been duly authorized
or licensed by the Police Commissioner to repair, adjust or calibrate
taximeters or taximeter equipment.