A. 
Any person, corporation, partnership or legal entity who or which owns a passenger-carrying vehicle offered or plying for hire or for which public patronage is solicited in the Incorporated Village of Floral Park shall be deemed to be a taxicab owner.
B. 
Any person, corporation, partnership or legal entity who or which does not have a written franchise agreement with the Incorporated Village of Floral Park and whose drivers are not licensed by the Incorporated Village of Floral Park shall not:
(1) 
Offer or ply for hire or solicit for public patronage relating to the commercial transportation of passengers from one place to another in his or its taxicab or any motor vehicle, unless said taxicab owner is operating under a written franchise agreement with the Incorporated Village of Floral Park to operate his or its taxicabs within the jurisdiction of the Incorporated Village of Floral Park.
(2) 
Employ as a taxicab driver any person who is not licensed as such by the Incorporated Village of Floral Park and who is operating his motor vehicle within the jurisdiction of the Incorporated Village of Floral Park for the solicitation for the commercial transportation of passengers from one place to another.
It shall be presumptive evidence of a violation of the article if a taxicab owner and/or its taxicab drivers are soliciting business for the commercial transportation of passengers from one place to another and offering or plying for hire a passenger-carrying vehicle and for such person, corporation, partnership or legal entity who or which does have a written franchise agreement to operate its taxicabs within the jurisdiction of the Incorporated Village of Floral Park and to offer said services if said taxicab or taxicabs are parked or standing on any street, sidewalk or other property within the Village of Floral Park, with any of its employees, agents or representatives or any individual operating, driving, parking or standing with said vehicle.
Any person who drives a passenger-carrying vehicle offered or plying for hire or for which public patronage is solicited shall be deemed to be a taxicab driver. Any person licensed under this article as a taxicab driver shall not:
A. 
Drive or operate any taxicab unless neat and clean in person and in dress and respectful in speech and manner.
B. 
Smoke while carrying any passenger in the taxicab vehicle.
C. 
Permit any person, other than a paying passenger, to ride in said taxicab.
D. 
Refuse to carry any person requesting transportation.
E. 
Drive or operate any taxicab, unless he or she shall first comply with all statutes, ordinances and local laws of both the State of New York and the Incorporated Village of Floral Park relevant to passenger-carrying vehicles as set forth in this chapter.
Any person, legal entity, partnership, corporation or entity of any kind whatsoever violating any provision of this article shall be subjected to a mandatory minimum fine of $100 or imprisonment for a period not to exceed 15 days, or both. Each continued violation shall be deemed to constitute a separate violation of this article.