[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of West
Springfield as Ch. 10, § 10-203, of the Codified Ordinances.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
Every motor vehicle used or to be used for the conveyance of
persons for hire shall be deemed to be a taxicab within the meaning
of this chapter, except a motor vehicle operated in a manner and for
the purposes stated in Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 159A, and
a motor vehicle used for private livery purposes.
No person shall engage in the Town in the business of operating
a taxicab without first obtaining from the License Commission the
license or licenses required by this chapter.
The License Commission may license the operation of a taxicab
and may license a person to drive such a taxicab, and may revoke such
licenses at its discretion.
No taxicab shall be allowed to stand or to wait for passengers
on any public way in the Town except on such portions thereof as may
be designated therefor by a license granted by the License Commission,
which may revoke such a license for a taxicab stand or change the
location thereof at any time. No person shall allow any vehicle to
remain standing in any taxicab stand except a taxicab licensed therefor.
Any license required by this chapter shall expire on the 30th
day of April following the date of issuance, and no such license shall
be transferred without the consent of the License Commission. The
fees for all such licenses shall be determined from time to time by
rules, orders and regulations of the License Commission.
No owner or driver of a taxicab shall charge any passenger any
higher rate for any service than authorized from time to time by rules,
orders and regulations of the License Commission. All owners and drivers
of taxicabs licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall be
subject to such further rules, orders and regulations as may from
time to time be promulgated by the License Commission.
