It is unlawful for any owner or driver to operate any taxicab in the City unless such vehicle is equipped with a taximeter of such type, style, and design as may be approved by the State Department of Agriculture, Sealer of Weights and Measures, and it shall be the duty of every owner operating a taxicab to cause such taximeter to be inspected and sealed as required by the Sealer of Weights and Measures. Such taximeters shall be at all times subject to inspection by the County's Sealer or by any peace officer. Such inspector or peace officer is hereby authorized, at his or her instance or upon complaint by any person, to investigate, or cause to be investigated, such taximeter, and, upon the discovery of any inaccuracy in such meter, to remove, or cause to be removed, such vehicle equipped with such taximeter from the street of the City until such time as the taximeter shall have been correctly adjusted, recertified, and sealed by the Sealer of Weights and Measures.
(Prior code § 10-047.1)
Every such taximeter shall register the charge to nearest $0.10 and be equipped with a flag or other device, mechanically or electronic with the words "For Hire" printed or stamped thereon which flag or other device shall be so attached or connected to the taximeter as to indicate the taxicab is for hire when the meter is not in operation and to remove or blank out the words "For Hire" when the taximeter is in operation.
(Prior code § 10-047.2)
It is unlawful for any driver of a taxicab while carrying passengers to display the flag or device attached to such taximeter in such a position as to denote that such vehicle is for hire, or is not employed, or to have such flag or other attached device in such a position as to prevent said taximeter from operating, and it is unlawful for any driver to throw such flag or other device of a taximeter into a position which causes said taximeter to record when such vehicle is not actually employed or fail to throw said flag or other device on such taximeter into a nonrecording position at the termination of each and every service.
(Prior code § 10-047.3)
The charges for transportation of passengers in taxicabs operated in the City must be based on the charges indicated on said taximeters and is be unlawful for any owner, driver or operator of any taxicab to charge any passenger or passengers any sum in excess of the sum indicated on said taximeter.
(Prior code § 10-047.4)
The taximeter must be placed in said taxicab so that the reading dial showing the amount to be charged shall be well-lighted and readily discernible by the passenger riding in such taxicab.
(Prior code § 10-047.5)
There shall be displayed in the passenger compartment of each taxicab in full view of the passenger a card not less than four inches by six inches in size which shall have plainly printed thereon the name of the owner, or the fictitious name under which said owner operates, the business address and telephone number of said owner, and a correct schedule of the rates to be charged for conveyance in said vehicle.
(Prior code § 10-048)
It is unlawful for the owner or driver of any taxicab as defined in Section 5.84.010 hereof to fix or charge or collect or receive a rate in excess of rates established and set from time to time by resolution of the City Council.
(Prior code § 10-049)
It is unlawful for any driver of a taxicab, or other vehicle regulated hereby to purchase, accept, receive, acquire or to agree to purchase, accept, receive, or acquire any jewelry, watches, cameras, firearms, clothing or any articles of personal property in payment of or as a pledge for the payment of any fares due and payable for conveyance in any taxicab or vehicle regulated hereby.
(Prior code § 10-049.1)