(a)
Required.
All holders of permits for taxicabs operating
upon the streets in the city shall install and equip each taxicab
with a taximeter, which taximeter shall be set upon the rates established
in this article, and such taximeters shall be subject to inspection
at any time by the city or its employees.
(b)
To be in operation while conveying passengers.
No taxicab
shall be operated at any time with a passenger unless the meter on
the taxicab is correctly operating and showing the rates that are
being charged. If at any time the taximeter stops or fails to operate
or is operating incorrectly, it shall be the duty of the operator
of the taxicab to immediately take such taxicab to its terminal and
not operate the same until the meter has been fixed and adjusted.
(Ordinance 99-77, sec. 1, adopted 10/5/99; 1978 Code, secs. 29-54, 29-55)
(a)
Authority to fix.
The city council shall have the right
to change or establish the rates and fares to be charged by taxicabs
in the city at any time it deems necessary.
(b)
Schedule.
Unless otherwise changed by the city council,
the following taxicab rates and fares shall be effective in the city:
(1)
The rate or fare of either one or two (2) passengers shall be two
dollars seventy-five cents ($2.75) for the first one-tenth (1/10)
mile or fraction thereof and twenty cents ($0.20) for each one-tenth
(1/10) mile or fraction thereof traveled thereafter. The rate for
additional passengers shall be one dollar ($1.00) per passenger, not
to exceed the vehicle’s maximum seating capacity, according
to trade rating.
(2)
For each one minute of waiting time consumed by the taxicab at the
instance of the passenger, the rate shall be thirty cents ($0.30).
(3)
Whenever a taxicab is engaged on an hourly basis, whether for one
or more passengers, the rate or fare shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00)
for each hour. For each quarter hour in excess of each completed hour,
the rate shall be three dollars seventy-five cents ($3.75) for each
quarter hour the taxicab is so engaged.
(c)
Posting.
There shall be posted, in a conspicuous place
in a frame with a transparent cover, on the inside of each taxicab,
a card showing the rates herein prescribed; such card shall be posted
in a place easily discovered and read by any passenger riding in such
taxicab.
(Ordinance 99-77, sec. 1, adopted 10/5/99; Ordinance 05-073, sec. 7, adopted 9/20/05; 1978
Code, sec. 29-52; Ordinance 11-045, sec. 2, adopted 7/12/11)
It shall be unlawful for any passenger to refuse to pay the
legal fare due by him for the use of any taxicab mentioned in this
article, after having hired the same; and any person who hires any
taxicab with the intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired
and, after using the same, fails or refuses to pay any taxicab fare
due by him shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ordinance 99-77, sec. 1, adopted 10/5/99; 1978 Code, sec. 29-53)
