(a) The traffic engineer may designate areas or zones at Love Field and Dallas Executive Airport in which only vehicles of a special kind or type are authorized to park, stop, stand, or operate, by posting signs to that effect. A person commits an offense if he operates or drives a vehicle, or parks, stops, or stands a vehicle, in any such area or zone, unless the vehicle is the special kind or type authorized to enter, park, stop, or stand in the area or zone.
(b) The traffic engineer is authorized to establish taxicab call box stands in areas or zones at Love Field and Dallas Executive Airport as the traffic engineer deems necessary. The traffic engineer shall take into consideration the need for stands by the holder and the convenience to the general public. For purposes of this section, the term “holder” means any person holding a taxicab franchise in the city or operating under an operating contract. For the purposes of this section, the word “taxicab” includes “limousine.” A holder desiring to establish a call box stand at Love Field or Dallas Executive Airport shall make written application to the traffic engineer. When a call box stand has been established, it shall be used solely by the holder to whom it was granted and the holder’s agents and servants, and no other holder shall use it. The signs designating the call box stand area must indicate the holder for whom the call box stand was established.
(c) The director of aviation shall designate the periods of service and the number of starters or other employees for the purposes of assisting in loading or unloading passengers from taxicabs, receiving calls and dispatching taxicabs, and soliciting passengers at call box stands at Love Field and Dallas Executive Airport. Call box stands consist of that part of the sidewalk immediately adjacent to, and of equal length with, the designated area and all other areas specifically assigned for the use.
(d) The traffic engineer is authorized to establish public taxicab stands in areas or zones at Love Field and Dallas Executive Airport as the traffic engineer deems necessary. For the purposes of this section, the term “public taxicab stand” means an area designated for the use of any holder who has not been allocated a call box stand at the airport facility.
(e) The traffic engineer shall establish the capacity of the call box stands and public taxicab stands. The number of taxicabs, limousines, or other vehicles of the holder located or parked in a stand at any one time shall not exceed the capacity so established.
(f) The chief of police and the director of aviation shall enforce the provisions of this section. Definitions in Chapter 45 of this code apply to this section except as specifically modified. (Ord. Nos. 14584; 17226; 19312; 24859)