For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CALLBOX STAND. A place alongside a street, or elsewhere where the city has authorized a holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity to install a telephone or callbox for the taking of calls and the dispatching of taxicabs.
CERTIFICATE. A certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the City Clerk, authorizing the holder thereof to conduct a taxicab business in the city.
DRIVER’S LICENSE. The permission granted by the City Council to a person to drive a taxicab upon the streets of the city.
HOLDER. A person to whom a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been issued.
OPEN STAND. A public place alongside the curb of a street or elsewhere which has been designated by the city as reserved exclusively for the use of taxicabs.
TAXICAB. A motor vehicle regularly engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, having a seating capacity of less than seven persons and not operated on a fixed route.
WAITING TIME. The time when a taxicab is not in motion from the time of acceptance of a passenger to the time of discharge, but does not include any time that the taxicab is not in motion if due to any cause other than the request, act or fault of a passenger.
(1960 Code, § 7-13-1) (Ord. 5385, passed 3-8-1995)