(a) No person shall operate or cause to be operated a taxicab, or proffer the services of any vehicle as a taxicab, unless the owner of such vehicle has obtained a taxicab license, as herein provided, covering such vehicle.
(b) Every such taxicab license shall expire on December 31 of the year in which issued. Licenses issued on or after July 1 of any year shall be issued at one-half the annual license fee herein provided.
(c) The annual license fee for each taxicab shall be ten dollars ($10.00). Any taxicab company operating 50 taxicabs or more shall be entitled to a certificate to be known as a fleet certificate, for the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00).
(1974 Code, § 729.02)