(a) "Public vehicle" means every vehicle for the common carriage and conveyance of passengers for hire except motor buses and motor vehicles used solely for funerals.
(b) "Taxicab" means every public vehicle equipped with or without a taximeter, used for the transportation for hire of passengers for which public patronage is solicited, in whole or in part, upon the streets or in quasi-public places.
(c) "Taximeter" means and includes any mechanical device or instrument by which the charge for hire of such taxicab is mechanically calculated, and on which the charge to be made to the passenger is plainly indicated by means of figures.
(d) "Automobile for hire" means and includes every public vehicle as herein defined which does not seek its business on the public streets and which is driven and in charge of the owner or his agent.
(e) "Owner" means any person who has control, direction of operation, maintenance and the benefit of the collection of revenue derived from the operation of a public vehicle, as herein defined, on or over the streets of the City, whether as owner, licensee, bailee or otherwise, except a driver as hereinafter defined.
(f) "Driver" means and includes every person actually in charge of the operation as the chauffeur of a public vehicle as heretofore defined, whether as owner, agent, servant or employee of the owner.
(g) "Taxicab stand" means those portions of the street set aside and designated by the Mayor for the parking of taxicabs waiting for and seeking employment.
(h) “Mayor” means Mayor or designee.
(1943 R.O., Ch. II, Art. D.; Ord. 153-2021. Passed 12-6-21.)