[1-21-1946, § 1]
For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Every person having the use or control of one or more taxicabs
as herein defined.
All public vehicles driven by mechanical power used for the
carriage of persons for hire except those vehicles commonly known
as busses.
A mechanical instrument or device by which the charge for
hire of a taxicab is mechanically calculated, either for distance
traveled or for waiting time, or for both, and upon which such charge
shall be indicated by means of figures.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
Every owner of a taxicab is required to furnish reasonably safe
and adequate service at just and reasonable rates within the Village
as may reasonably be required to assure adequate accommodations to
the public in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Each taxicab owner shall regularly and daily operate his taxicabs
during each day of the licensed year to the extent reasonably necessary
to meet the public demand for such taxicab service. Upon complete
abandonment of taxicab service for the period of 10 consecutive days
by the owner or operator of such taxicab service, the Chief of Police,
upon hearing after five days' notice to the owner or operator, shall
thereupon recommend to the President of the Village, that the license
of such owner or operator shall be revoked covering such taxicabs
of the owner or operator.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
The licensing and inspecting of taxicabs, the examining of applicants
for licenses to drive such taxicabs, and the licensing of drivers
as provided in this chapter, and enforcing its provisions shall be
under the control of the Chief of Police. The Chief of Police shall
have power to appoint from the police department such inspectors as
he may deem necessary for the enforcement of the provision of this
chapter, who shall serve as such as part of their police duties. The
inspecting and sealing of taximeters shall be finder the jurisdiction
of the inspector of weights and measures.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
The Village Clerk and Chief of Police shall keep a register
of the name and address of each person owning or operating a vehicle
licensed under this chapter, together with the license number and
the description, make, and necessary dimensions of such vehicle, with
the date and complete record of inspections made of it. Such records
shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times,
and shall be public records, extracts of which may be certified for
use as evidence by the Village Clerk.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
The Chief of Police shall maintain constant vigilance over all
taxicabs, see that they are kept in a condition of continued fitness
for public use, and to this end the Chief of Police or his inspectors
shall inspect all taxicabs from time to time, or on the complaint
of any person, or as often as may be necessary. At least twice in
each year the Chief of Police shall make a written report of all such
inspections to the President and Board of Trustees.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
No person shall make use of any public street for a taxicab
stand without first obtaining permission so to do from the President
and Board of Trustees, covering the location, the manner of using
such space and the time. Such permission shall be revocable at any
time.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
Only taxicabs in such numbers and of such kinds as are set forth
on the metal sign may remain at taxicab stand while waiting for employment,
and only in single file pointed in accordance with the traffic regulations.
No taxicab standing at the head of any such line shall refuse to carry
any orderly person applying for a taxicab who agrees to pay the proper
fare, but this shall not prevent any person from selecting any taxicab
he may desire on the stand, whether it be at the head of the line
or not. As the taxicabs leave the line with passengers those behind
shall move up, and any taxicab seeking a space on the stand shall
approach same only from the rear of the stand and shall stop as near
as possible to the last call already on the line. No taxicab shall
stand at the curb within 15 feet of the entrance to any building adjacent
to a taxicab stand located and designated by the President and Board
of Trustees in accordance with the preceding section which shall be
determined by measuring 15 feet on each side of the point of the curb
opposite the middle of the entrance to the adjacent building. No taxicab
shall stand within five feet of any crosswalk. No private vehicle
shall be permitted to stand or use the space in a public stand except
to receive or to discharge passengers or merchandise.
The Village President upon the recommendation of the Chief of
Police may suspend or revoke the license of any taxicab driver who
shall stand in front of the entrance of any building with the prohibited
space after his passengers desiring to leave have alighted, or who
shall attempt to stand in such prohibited space waiting for passengers
or who shall violate any of the other provisions of this section.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
Whenever any package or article of baggage, or goods of any
kind shall be left in or on any taxicab or other licensed vehicle
for the conveyance of passengers, or whenever any such package or
article shall be left in the custody of the driver thereof, such driver
shall, upon the discovery of such package or article, forthwith deliver
the same to the police station of the Village, unless such package
or article shall be sooner delivered to the owner thereof, or upon
the order of such owner.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
No taxicab while waiting employment by passengers shall stand
on any public street or place other titan at or upon a public taxicab
stand designated or established in accordance with this chapter, nor
shall any driver of such taxicab seek employment by repeatedly and
persistently driving his taxicab about the streets near a stand, or
otherwise interfering with the proper and orderly access to or egress
from any theatre, ball, hotel, public resort, railway station, or
other place of public gathering.
[1-21-1952, § 1]
No taxicab not properly licensed to operate on the streets of
the Village, shall either pick up, within the limits of the Village
any passenger for hire, nor shall any taxicab not properly licensed
to operate on the streets of the Village come into the Village in
response to a telephone call originating from any place within the
Village; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained
shall prevent or prohibit any taxicab, licensed or unlicensed, from
being lawfully driven over and through the streets of the Village
with passengers whose trip commenced without the corporate limits
of the Village.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
No driver of a licensed taxicab shall carry any other person
than the first passenger first employing the taxicab without the consent
of such passenger.
[1-21-1946, § 1]
It shall be the duty of every driver to report in writing to
the Chief of Police, upon forms to be furnished by the department
of police, all injuries, whether to persons or property, accidents
or casualties in which the vehicle driven by him was involved, directly
or indirectly, within 12 hours of the happening thereof, giving in
detail the time, place, nature and cause of the injury, accident or
casualty, a description of the property injured, or the name and address
of the person injured or killed, together with the name, address and
license number of the driver submitting such report. Physical disability
shall alone constitute excuse for noncompliance with the foregoing
provisions.
