(A) Applications for a permit to drive required by this chapter may be obtained from the Inspector of Taxicabs. Each application for a permit for the driver shall contain:
(1) Full name;
(2) Age;
(3) Date of birth;
(4) Physical description;
(5) Address;
(6) Social Security number;
(7) Driver’s license number and state of issuance;
(8) Prospective employer;
(9) Previous employer;
(10) Sworn statement providing any previous arrests and/or convictions involving any state or federal charge;
(11) Proof of citizenship or status as legally documented worker (i.e., visa); and
(12) Statement providing applicant’s history of use of alcohol or drugs.
(B) The Inspector shall check the driver’s history of the applicant through the use of the computerized files of the department of motor vehicles and shall check the criminal history of the applicant through the use of the State Bureau of Investigation/Department of Criminal Information - Identification Section’s Computerized Criminal History (CCH).
(C) The applicant is required to provide his or her fingerprints which will be submitted to state and national criminal history checks of his or her criminal record. The city shall forward the applicant’s fingerprints to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) for a search of the state’s criminal history record file and the SBI shall forward a set of the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for a national criminal history check in accordance with G.S. § 160A-304. This information shall be kept privileged and private and shall not be a public record under G.S. Ch. 132. The receipt by the Taxicab Inspector of the criminal history record check shall be used solely to determine eligibility for a permit.
(2005 Code, § 86-35) (Ord. 021103, passed 11-4-2002; Ord. 05085, passed 8-8-2005; Ord. 1011, passed 1-25-2010)