All taxicab vehicles shall comply with the following requirements:
(A) Size: Licenses may be issued for vehicles to operate as taxicabs only if the vehicle has a capacity for no more than six (6) passengers, excluding the driver. No vehicle shall be licensed unless it has two (2) doors on each side, and is a "full size" vehicle or larger. Exceptions shall be made for specialty vehicles or hybrid vehicles.
(B) Name And Phone Number: Every taxicab licensed as provided in this chapter shall bear on the outside of the vehicle, in a conspicuous place, the name and phone number of the operator thereof, in letters not less than two inches (2") high, which letters shall be of a contrasting color to the color of the vehicle, and shall be properly proportioned and legible.
(C) Lighted Dome: The cab shall also have a lighted dome light on the roof of the vehicle noting that the vehicle is a taxicab.
(D) License Decal: The taxicab vehicle license to be issued by the village clerk as hereinabove provided shall be in the form of a decal. Said decal shall be affixed to the bottom left rear window of the taxicab.
(E) Taximeter: Every taxicab operated by a taxicab company and licensed by the village shall be equipped with a taximeter, in good working order, connected with and operating from the transmission of the taxicab.
1. Visibility: No taxicab vehicle license shall be issued unless and until said taximeter functions as follows:
During the period between sunset and sunrise, be equipped with a light which shall be so reflected upon the dial of the taximeter as to enable the passenger or passengers engaging and using such taxicab to read the figures thereon.
Every taximeter hereafter placed on a taxicab shall be so arranged that the dial thereof is in plain view of the passenger while riding in such taxicab, or upon alighting from the same.
2. Inspection: No license shall be issued for a taxicab until the taximeter attached thereto shall have been inspected by the inspector of weights and measures as provided herein and proof thereof provided to the village clerk.
3. Testing: No person owning or operating any taxicab shall offer or let the same for hire or reward anywhere within the village unless the taximeter placed, attached or installed thereon has been inspected and tested by said inspector.
4. Transfer Of Meters: No person shall detach any certified or inspected taximeter from any taxicab and attach the same to any other taxicab, the front wheels of which are of a different diameter than those with reference to which said taximeter was originally tested, unless a new inspection or certification is made on such taximeter.
5. Unapproved Meters: No person shall drive a vehicle to which is attached a taximeter that has not been duly inspected and approved.
6. Credit Card Payments: Each vehicle shall be equipped to process credit card payments by passengers.
7. No Smoking: It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke any tobacco at any time in any taxicab.
8. Cellular Telephone: Taxicab operators may not use cellular telephones while transporting passengers.
9. Insurance: The application for a taxicab vehicle license shall be accompanied by evidence of the liability insurance as required in section 5-2-6 of this chapter.
10. Nontransferable: It shall be unlawful to transfer any taxicab vehicle license from one vehicle to another. Transferring any taxicab vehicle license shall be grounds for revocation of all licenses issued pursuant to this chapter to both the owner of the license and the vehicle to which the license is transferred. (Ord. 10-1337, 9-2-2010)