(A) No person shall transport or offer to transport a passenger for a fare in any public vehicle for hire without a license to operate a public vehicle for hire.
(B) To be eligible for a license to operate a public vehicle for hire, a person:
(1) Must possess a public passenger chauffeur or commercial driver’s license issued by the State of Indiana;
(2) Must not have been convicted of a felony within the period of five years immediately preceding the date of the filing of the application;
(3) Must not have been convicted of drunk driving within the period of ten years immediately preceding the date of the filing of the application;
(4) Must not have two or more convictions at any time of drunk driving;
(5) Either:
(a) Must not have been convicted at any time of:
1. A felony or misdemeanor that involved violence towards another person;
2. Drugged driving;
3. Being an habitual traffic offender; or
4. Being an habitual substance offender; or
(b) Must have had a valid town taxicab operator’s license on the effective date of this section; and
(6) Either:
(a) Must have been an Indiana resident; or
(b) Must have had a valid town taxicab operator’s license on the effective date of this division.
(C) In addition to any other basis for revocation of a license, no person shall be eligible to retain a license to operate a public vehicle for hire if he or she operates such vehicle with either:
(1) An alcohol concentration in his or her blood; or
(2) A controlled substance listed in schedule I or II of IC 35-48-2 or its metabolite in his or her body, unless such person consumed the controlled substance under a valid prescription or order of a practitioner (as defined in IC 35-48-1) who acted in the course of the practitioner’s professional practice.
(Ord. 2014-10, passed 5-27-14)