(A) No operator, driver or owner of any taxicab shall solicit or carry any passenger after the taxicab shall have been engaged or while in use for another passenger without the consent of the passenger first engaging the same, having been obtained. A passenger or passengers engaging the taxicab shall have the exclusive right to full and free use of the passenger compartment and the whole thereof if he desires the same.
(B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a violation of this section shall be deemed to be an infraction.
('83 Code, § 5.52.140) Penalty, see § 10.99