For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
TAXICAB. Any motor vehicle seating nine or fewer passengers, operated upon any street or highway on call or on demand, accepting or soliciting passengers indiscriminately for hire between such points along streets or highways as may be directed by the passenger or passengers so being transported; provided, that TAXICAB shall not be construed to include motor vehicles of nine-passenger capacity or less operated as ambulances or operated by the owner where the cost of operation is shared by neighbor fellow workers between their homes and the place of regular daily employment, when operated for not more than two trips each way per day, nor automobiles operated by the owner where the cost of operation is shared by the passengers on a "share the expense" plan, nor motor vehicles transporting students for the public school system under contract with the appropriate board of education, nor motor
vehicles leased to the United States of America or to any of its agencies when such lease agreement is on a nonprofit basis.
('69 Code, § 22-1) (Ord. 168, passed 10-4-45)