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717.01 TAXICAB DEFINED.
   "Taxicab" means any vehicle whose owner or driver solicits, secures or accepts passengers for hire upon hail or request on the public streets in the Municipality.
(Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)
717.02 LICENSE FEE.
   (a)   No person, firm or corporation 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 shall have obtained a taxicab license as herein provided covering such vehicle.
 
   (b)   Every such taxicab license shall expire on December 31 for 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 twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
717.03 APPLICATION FOR LICENSE.
   Each applicant for a taxicab license shall present and file with the Clerk his signed application setting forth the trade name under which he intends to do business; the number of vehicles and a general description of each vehicle for which a license is desired; the marking or lettering to be used thereon; and any other information required by the Clerk pertinent to the issuance of such license.
(Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)
717.04 ISSUANCE OF LICENSE.
   (a)   The Safety-Service Director shall investigate and hold a hearing upon each application for a license. If the Director finds upon such investigation and hearing that the public convenience and necessity do not justify the operation of the vehicle for which a license is desired, he shall forthwith notify the applicant of his findings. If he finds from such investigation and hearing that the public convenience and necessity do justify the operation of the vehicle or vehicles for which a license is desired, he shall forthwith notify the applicant. Within sixty days thereafter, applicant shall furnish and file with the Clerk the following:
      (1)   A full transcript of the information appearing on the certificate of title of each vehicle for which a license is desired, and the State license number of each such vehicle.
      (2)   An unexpired certificate as required by Section 717.10.
      (3)   The name of each person who will operate such taxicab, with the driver's license number of each such person.
         (Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)
      (4)   Henceforth any applicant for a taxicab license shall be required to carry liability insurance against loss from the operation of each such taxicab to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) on account of injury or death of one person in any one accident, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) on account of injury or death of more than one person in any one accident, and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for property damage caused in any one accident.
         (Ord. 1039. Passed 7-26-76.)
 
   (b)   Thereupon, the Safety-Service Director shall examine such supporting information and documents, and being satisfied that the applicant is the owner of any such vehicle, that the same is a safe and fit conveyance, and that satisfactory insurance or bond has been issued and is in force thereon, he shall, upon payment of the prescribed license fee, issue a license to the applicant.
 
   (c)   A certified copy of such license shall be exhibited in a prominent place in each taxicab at all times.
(Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)
717.05 TAXICAB STANDS.
   At the time of issuing the license, the Safety-Service Director shall designate a regular parking space for the taxicab or taxicabs, and he may prescribe rules for usage of such stand suitable to applicant's business and agreeable with the public convenience and welfare.
(Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)
717.06 DISPLAYING RATES; EXCESSIVE CHARGES.
   Every taxicab shall display at all times a printed list of the fares and rates to be charged passengers for transportation; and no owner or driver shall charge any amount in excess of such printed rates unless by mutual agreement between passenger and driver entered into before leaving the point of departure.
(Ord. 465. Passed 1-17-66.)
717.07 DRIVERS.
   No person under twenty-one years of age and no person not having an operators license issued under the laws of the State of Ohio, shall operate a taxicab on any street or alley of the Municipality.
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