.010 Taxicabs.
Every person conducting, managing or carrying on a taxicab business, or the business of carrying passengers for hire in vehicles where the operators are furnished by the person conducting, managing or carrying on the business, shall pay an annual license tax of thirty dollars for each taxicab or other vehicle used in the business.
.020 Taxicabs Stands.
Every person conducting, managing, carrying on or maintaining a taxicab stand upon any public street, road, alley or way in this City shall pay the following annual license tax:
(1) Where the taxicab stand is designed to accommodate vehicles being parked parallel to the curb or side of the street, an annual license tax of two dollars per lineal foot of the length of the taxicab stand, measured along the side or curb of the street for the main or headquarters stand. For any alternate or additional location, the annual license tax shall be two hundred dollars per year for each parking space;
(2) Where the taxicab stand is designed to accommodate vehicles parked diagonally, an annual license tax of fifty dollars for each space designed to accommodate each vehicle for the main or headquarters stand. For any alternate or additional location, the annual license tax shall be two hundred dollars per year for each parking space.
.030 Transporting Passengers for Hire — Fixed Route.
Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of transporting for hire passengers in a motor-propelled vehicle over a defined route, which vehicle receives and discharges passengers along the route, shall pay an annual tax of one hundred dollars and twenty dollars for each vehicle over one used in the business.
.040 Sightseeing and Limousine Service.
(1) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of operating a sightseeing bus or limousine shall pay an annual license tax of one hundred dollars and twenty dollars for each sightseeing bus or auto over one used in the business.
(2) The following definitions shall apply to this section:
(a) "Sightseeing service" means a vehicle hired by persons which, by contract, is engaged for its exclusive use for a special trip or excursion from a starting point within the City.
(b) "Limousine service" means vehicles operated by persons engaged in the business of transporting passengers for hire by motor vehicle in the City, though strictly by prearrangement and not by soliciting business by cruising the streets. (Ord. 5368 § 1 (part); May 18, 1993.)