(A) Any certificate issued under the provisions of this article may be revoked or suspended by the City Council for any of the following causes:
(1) Failure to operate the taxicab or vehicle for hire specified in the certificate;
(2) Failure to maintain the taxicab or vehicle for hire in good order and repair;
(3) Failure to pay the personal property taxes or other taxes due the city or state on such vehicle;
(4) Failure to maintain insurance as required by this article;
(5) Failure to report any accident as required by law;
(6) Failure of the driver to stay neat in appearance;
(7) Failure of the driver to be courteous at all times;
(8) Failure of the driver of a taxicab or vehicle for hire to have and exhibit a chauffeur’s license and picture in the cab. Duplicate information must be on hand at the police station before a taxicab driver can operate on the streets of the city;
(9) Repeated and persistent violations of traffic and safety ordinances by a driver;
(10) If a cab driver is convicted a third time of a state, city or federal offense, no cab owner can knowingly hire the driver under the penalty of having his license revoked;
(11) Purchase by a driver of alcoholic beverages of any description for his passenger, toleration of a driver of any disorderly conduct in his cab, transportation by a driver or having in his possession in a vehicle operated for hire any intoxicating beverage of any kind;
(12) Willful or continued failure to comply with the provisions of this article or any other law regulating the operation of taxicabs and vehicles for hire within the city;
(13) Willful neglect to render service;
(14) Failure to operate under a franchise for six consecutive months.
(B) The City Council is authorized from time to time to increase or decrease such certificates as the public convenience may require, and in the event of a decrease, those certificates granted last shall be the first revoked.
(1989 Code, § 7-374)