(A) The Mayor shall investigate each application for license for a taxicab or auto for hire. If the Mayor finds from investigation and hearing that the public convenience and necessity justify the operation of the vehicle for which license is desired, he or she shall forthwith notify the applicant of his or her findings. Within 60 days thereafter the applicant shall furnish the Mayor with the additional information required and if the Mayor then finds that the applicant is the owner of the vehicle for which license is desired, that the vehicle is a safe and fit conveyance, and that it complies with all the requirements of this code of ordinances, he or she shall notify the Clerk-Treasurer, who shall issue a license to the applicant upon the payment of the proper license fee and the furnishing of bond or issuance required. If the applicant does not comply with the requirements of this section within 60 days, the findings of the Mayor shall be null and void.
(B) If the Mayor finds from the investigation that the public convenience and necessity do not justify the operation of the vehicle for which license is desired, he or she shall forthwith notify the applicant of his or her findings.
(C) All owners of taxicabs or autos for hire hereby licensed or hereafter granted licenses according to law, shall, at the completion of the year for which they are licensed, be entitled to have their licenses renewed for each succeeding year, without a finding of convenience and necessity by the Mayor, provided all other requirements of this code are complied with.
(Ord. 15-78, passed 5-2-1978)