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No certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be issued, nor shall any taxicab be operated on the streets of the City, until the taxicab company shall have filed with the Mayor a liability insurance policy for each taxicab. The policies shall be subject to approval by the Law Director, shall be kept on file in the office of the Auditor and shall be written by an insurance or liability company authorized to carry on business and to write policies in the State and having a capital and surplus of more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) according to its most recent financial statement. The policy shall indemnify the taxicab company in the sum of at least twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) for injury or death to one person; twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for injury or death to more than one person and ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for property damage in any one accident through the operation of the taxicab. With the policy shall be deposited a receipt showing premium payments for not less than three months. The policy shall further contain a clause obligating the insurance company to give to the Mayor ten days' notice before the effective date of cancellation of the policy or policies.
(a) The maximum rates of fare to be charged by taxicabs operating within the City shall be one dollar ($1.00) per person and twenty-five cents (25¢) for each additional person at the same pickup point and the same destination.
(b) The rates of fare charged by any taxicab shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the passenger's compartment of the vehicle. The schedule showing the rates of fare shall be printed in a type not smaller than thirty-six point printer type.
(c) Upon application by the holder of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to the Board of Control of the City, and a showing of just cause for increase or decrease in fares, such Board may, upon the advice of Council, to be shown in the minutes of Council, allow a reasonable increase or decrease in such fares.
(Ord. 11-74-0. Passed 3-14-74.)
(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not include or apply to motor vehicles used exclusively as hearses or ambulances, or exclusively for service at weddings, christenings or funerals, or motor vehicles leased or rented for private use without the service of a chauffeur or driver, or motor vehicles operating under a certificate issued by the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Ohio, or any "drive-to-work" clubs, or under franchise granted by ordinance of Council when the franchise provides for a vehicle license fee.
(Ord. 1159. Passed 5-13-63.)
(b) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a duly licensed taxicab from another area if such vehicle is picking up a fare-paying passenger within the City, either for delivery at a point outside the City, where such taxicab is a duly qualified taxicab, or for delivery within the City, where the starting point was outside the City and when such taxicab is a duly qualified taxicab at the starting point.
(Ord. 35-71-0. Passed 9-13-71.)
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