(a) An employee of a business establishment, other than an operating authority, who acts as an agent in obtaining transportation-for-hire service for prospective passengers shall not:
(1) solicit nor accept payment from a driver in return for giving preferential treatment in directing passengers to a driver; or
(2) interfere with the orderly progression of transportation-for-hire vehicles from the rear to the front of a queue.
(b) Business establishments or their agents may not require guests to use a specific transportation-for- hire operating authority, driver, or vehicle.
(c) Drivers may not pay an employee of a business establishment to solicit passengers or to give preferential treatment in directing passengers to that driver. (Ord. 29596)