Every taxicab shall use a taximeter of a size, design and quality sufficient to show the customer the charges within five (5) percent accuracy as determined by a standard test administered by qualified personnel approved by the city.
(Ordinance 85-76, sec. 1, adopted 9/10/85; 1957 Code, sec. 20-20)
The rules and regulations for inspection and approval of taximeters and the operation and use of taximeters on taxicabs are as follows:
(1) 
No approval shall be given and no inspection certificate for any taximeter shall be issued for any taxicab until the taximeter attached thereto shall have been tested and inspected and found to be accurate and in conformity with the specifications required of such taximeter under the terms of this article;
(2) 
No person shall use or permit to be used or driven for hire a taxicab equipped with a taximeter the case of which is unsealed and not having its cover and gear intact;
(3) 
No driver of a taxicab equipped with a taximeter, while carrying a passenger or passengers, or while under employment, shall display the signal affixed to such taximeter in such position as to denote such vehicle is not employed, or in such position as to denote that the taxicab is employed at a rate of fare different from that which the use of the taxicab legally justifies under the provisions of this article;
(4) 
It shall be the duty of the driver to call the attention of passengers to the amount registered on the taximeter, and the taximeter flag shall not be changed to “vacant” position until after the fare is paid;
(5) 
No person shall drive or operate a taxicab to which is attached a taximeter which has not been duly tested, inspected, and approved as required by this article, and it shall be unlawful to change the size of the wheels or tires of any taxicab, or the gears operating the taximeter, from one taxicab to another unless the taximeter is again tested, inspected and approved under supervision of the director of equipment services before using.
(Ordinance 85-76, sec. 1, adopted 9/10/85; 1957 Code, sec. 20-21; Ordinance 2008-31 adopted 7/22/08)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any taxicab to be operated for public hire in the city unless it is equipped with a taximeter as defined under this article.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating, driving or in charge of a taxicab to operate or drive such taxicab unless a taximeter is used in determining the fare to be charged. And no other or different fare shall be charged than the fare recorded on the reading face of such taximeter for such trip; and no other rates or methods of measuring the distance or time charges shall be allowed, except by taximeter as herein provided.
(c) 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating, driving or in charge of any taxicab for hire in the city to drive or operate such taxicab, or to use or advertise in connection therewith the word taxi, taxicab or cab, or in soliciting trade from the public to represent or exhibit such vehicle as a taxi, taxicab or cab, unless each vehicle be equipped with a taximeter, in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(d) 
Taximeters are not required for “limousine service.”
(Ordinance 85-76, sec. 1, adopted 9/10/85; 1957 Code, sec. 20-22; Ordinance 2008-31 adopted 7/22/08)