(A) (1) The Police Department, with the consent of the City Council, may establish open stands in such places upon the streets as it deems necessary for the use of taxicabs operated in the city. The Department shall prescribe the number of cabs that may occupy such open stands. The Department shall not create an open stand in front of any place of business where the abutting property owners object to the same or where such stand would tend to create a traffic hazard.
(2) Open stands shall be used by the different drivers on a first-come first-served basis. A driver shall pull onto the open stand from the rear and shall advance forward as the cabs ahead pull off. Drivers shall stay within five feet of their cabs; they shall not solicit passengers, or engage in loud or boisterous talk while at an open stand. A passenger may engage any cab of his or her choice that is parked at an open stand.
(1960 Code, § 7-13-22)
(B) (1) The Police Department may establish callbox stands upon the streets in such places as, in its discretion, it deems proper. A holder desiring to establish a callbox stand shall make written application to the Police Department. The applicant must attach to the application, the written approval of the abutting property owners of the space, consenting to the creation of such stand. Upon the filing of the application, the Police Department shall make an investigation of the traffic conditions at such place and shall thereafter file its written recommendation to the City Council. The Council shall then either grant or refuse the application. When a callbox stand has been established, it shall be used solely by the holder to whom the same was granted and his or her agents and employees. No holder may obtain a permit for more than one callbox stand within the downtown business area.
(2) A holder operating a callbox stand may have a starter on duty at such stand for the purpose of assisting in the loading or unloading of passengers from cabs for receiving calls and dispatching cabs, and for soliciting passengers at such stand. The words AT SUCH STAND shall mean that part of the sidewalk immediately adjacent to and of equal length with such callbox stand. A starter or other employee shall not go beyond the area herein designated for the purpose of soliciting passengers or assisting them in boarding cabs.
(1960 Code, § 7-13-23)
(C) Drivers of vehicles other than taxicabs shall not occupy any space established as an open stand or callbox stand.
(1960 Code, § 7-13-24)
(Ord. 5385, passed 3-8-1995) Penalty, see § 116.99