Licensed taxicabs, limousines and liveries may be inspected and reinspected at any time for cleanliness, sanitary condition, mechanical safety for the transportation of passengers and general safety and fitness for public patronage. Such inspections shall be made and records thereof shall be kept by the Police Department.
Taximeters may be inspected at any time, in the manner provided in § 313-6, to determine whether they are in proper condition and accurate as provided in § 313-7B.
The name, monogram, insignia or color scheme of a licensed taxicab shall not be changed after the issuance of a license therefor so as to be in conflict with the name, monogram, insignia or color scheme used by any other licensee.
Any change of address of the owner of any taxicab, limousine or livery or of any driver, occurring after the issuance of a license under this chapter, shall be reported by said licensee to the Municipal Clerk, in writing, within three days after such change. The Municipal Clerk shall immediately report such change of address to the Chief of Police.
The prices or fares that may be charged by the owner or driver of any taxicab for any trip originating within the Township shall not exceed the following rates:
Type
Rate
For the first 1/2 mile or fraction thereof
$1.60
For each 1/8 of a mile thereafter
$0.30
For each 2 minutes' waiting time
$0.30
For each additional passenger per trip to same destination
$0.45
Maximum mileage charge for any trip within the Township
$10.00
Every licensed taxicab driver shall record in writing the time and place each passenger is accepted and the time and place of discharge of the passenger. Such records shall be kept intact for one year from the date thereof. Such records shall be kept open for inspection at all times during the one-year period by a duly authorized representative of the Police Department.
No driver of any licensed taxicab in soliciting employment shall so operate a taxicab as to interfere with or impede unnecessarily the movement of other vehicles or pedestrians. Employment may be solicited by driving through any public street or place at a rate of speed that will not interfere with or impede traffic. No passenger shall be solicited unless within six feet of a taxicab.
No taxicab passenger shall be accepted or discharged on a public street except at the curb.
No licensed taxicab may park in any public street or public place in the Township except in such place or places as may be designated by ordinance, resolution or regulation adopted in accordance with law. Only such taxicabs as are for hire may remain at designated taxicab stands while waiting for employment. After the first taxicab in line leaves the stand, those behind shall move up. Any other taxicab seeking parking space in such stand shall approach it only from the rear thereof.
The driver of any licensed taxicab shall have the authority to demand payment of legal fare in advance and may refuse employment unless such fare is so prepaid, but no driver of a taxicab shall otherwise refuse employment by an orderly person for transportation anywhere in the Township. No driver of a taxicab shall carry any person other than the first passenger employing him or her without the consent of the first passenger.
No owner or driver of any licensed taxicab, limousine or livery shall induce any person to employ him or her by knowingly misinforming or misleading such person. No driver shall convey any passenger to any place or by any route other than the most direct route, unless otherwise directed by said passenger.
No owner or driver of any licensed livery or limousine may solicit patronage in any public street or public place in the Township.
The driver of any licensed taxicab, limousine or livery, immediately after the termination of any hiring or employment, shall carefully search his or her taxicab or livery for any property lost or abandoned therein. Such property, unless sooner claimed or delivered to the owner, shall be reported in writing by the driver or by the owner of the taxicab, limousine or livery to the Police Department, giving particulars and a brief description of said property, within 24 hours after the finding of the same. All such property not claimed within said twenty-four-hour period shall be turned over by such driver or owner of a taxicab, limousine or livery to the Property Clerk of the Police Department.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the use of a taxicab, limousine or livery for private purposes, provided that there is no solicitation of patronage.
A. 
No licensed driver shall commit an act or acts which would disqualify him or her for a driver's license under Subsections G, H or I of § 313-16 (drug or liquor addiction, habitual violation of the Motor Vehicle Act, conviction of an indictable offense or conviction of any criminal offense involving moral turpitude) or shall permit a taxicab or livery driven by him or her to be used for any illegal or immoral purpose.
B. 
No owner of a licensed taxicab, limousine or livery shall permit the use of such taxicab, limousine or livery for illegal or immoral purposes.