[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Agawam 12-21-1972
as Ch. 18 of the Code of the Town of Agawam. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 169.
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
MGL C. 159A and a motor vehicle used for private livery purposes.
No person shall engage in the business of operating a taxicab in the
town without first obtaining from the Town Council the license or licenses
required by this chapter.
The Town Council may license the operation of a taxicab and may license
a person to drive such a taxicab, and it 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 Town Council, 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 shall not be transferred without
the consent of the Town Council. The fee for all such licenses shall be $20.
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 Town Council. 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 Town
Council.
