(a) A carriage business shall operate only upon routes and under schedules which have been submitted to and approved by the Director of Public Works and the Police Traffic Commissioner.
(b) The route map and operations schedule shall be filed with the application for a carriage business license and shall contain the following:
(1) A map of the tour routes on which the business' carriages will operate;
(2) The location of any curbside areas to be designated as zones for pickup and discharge of passengers; and
(3) With respect to horse-drawn carriages, the location of the site or sites to be used for off-street storage, stabling, and loading of carriages and horses.
(c) The Director of Public Works and the Police Traffic Commissioner may reject any route map and operations schedule, the implementation of which would result in the unsafe use of public rights-of-way or an unreasonable impediment to the orderly flow of traffic.
(d) The licensee may file with the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses additional routes from time to time, provided that they have first been submitted to and approved by the Director of Public Works and the Police Traffic Commissioner.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a licensee from operating on special routes for special events, including without limitation weddings, dinner-and-theater packages, concerts and other performances, provided that the routes have first been submitted to and approved by the Director of Public Works and the Police Traffic Commissioner.
(f) Upon receipt of an application, the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses shall notify the Council Member or Members in whose ward or wards a carriage business intends to operate for their written recommendation of approval. No license shall be issued until the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of the notice, unless the period of thirty (30) days is expressly waived by the Council members in writing.
(Ord. No. 481-13. Passed 4-29-13, eff. 5-1-13)