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No person, either as principal, agent or employee, shall use or occupy any street, alley or other public place within the corporate limits of the City with any motor bus for the carriage of persons for hire, or operate the same by indiscriminately accepting and discharging such persons as may offer themselves for transportation along the way or course on which it is used or operated or may be running, without first obtaining a license from the City.
(Ord. 6944. Passed 9-28-36.)
Any person shall, before receiving a license for the carrying on of the business defined by Section 749.01, file with the Mayor a map of his or her designated route, showing the streets, alleys and public places upon which it is intended to operate, together with the operating schedule or headway to be maintained and the number of cars or vehicles to be operated, with the fares to be charged for the service. Council shall approve or modify, and approve as modified, any such route, operating schedule or headway and the rates of fare before any license shall be granted. Council reserves to itself the continuing right to make such changes in routes, upon notice to the licensee, as it may from time to time determine to be in the public interest. The acceptance of such license shall be deemed an agreement by such person to operate continuously his or her motor buses over such route or routes upon such schedule or headway and for such designated fares, and for failure to do so, in addition to the penalty, the license which may be in force shall be revoked.
(Ord. 6944. Passed 9-28-36.)
Every person receiving a license under this chapter shall pay to the Mayor the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per annum in advance, as a license fee for one year from the date thereof for each motor bus, before it shall be lawful for such person to operate any motor bus as a carrier of passengers, in the business defined in this chapter, within the limits of the City.
Every person applying for a license as required in this chapter shall provide and file with the Mayor a policy or certificate of liability insurance for each public vehicle for which a license is sought, indemnifying the applicant in the sum of at least two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for injury to one person, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for injury to more than one person and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) property damage, in any one accident, through the operation of the public vehicle of the applicant.
The insurance policy must be acceptable to the Mayor and the Director of Law and shall also contain a clause obligating the insurance company to give ten days written notice before cancellation of the policy. The license shall expire upon the lapse or cancellation of the insurance policy.
No person shall allow, permit or cause any motor bus, used in the business, to be operated by any person who does not possess a commercial driver's license, or who is not skilled in the art of driving automobiles, or who has physical disabilities and personal habits which would disqualify him or her from serving as a driver of a public vehicle, or who does not have sufficient knowledge of the English language to carry on an intelligent conversation. Names of such operators shall be registered with the Police Chief and upon certification by him or her, individual licenses shall be issued to them for the calendar year by the Mayor, upon payment of a license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
The Police Chief shall report to Council the names of any operators who are not qualified under this section, the operation of any such motor bus by a person whose name is not so registered and any violation by any such operator of the Traffic Code of the City. Council may, if it finds any such operator unqualified or that any such violation of the Traffic Code has been committed by such operator, take the action prescribed by Section 749.07.
All applications for licenses required in and defined by this chapter shall be made to the Mayor, and no license shall be granted unless, in the opinion of the Mayor and Council, the applicant meets all the requirements of this chapter. It shall be considered a part of such license that the Mayor reserves the right to suspend, cancel or revoke the same for any infraction of the Traffic Code of the City, or when, in the judgment of the Mayor, it shall be to the best interest of the public that such license be suspended, canceled or revoked.
(Ord. 6944. Passed 9-28-36.)
Each motor bus operated under the provisions of this chapter shall carry, constantly displayed upon the motor bus, in a conspicuous position, a license plate with a number issued in accordance herewith.
Each driver of such motor bus licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall carry his or her license on his or her person while engaged in operation.
(Ord. 6944. Passed 9-28-36.)
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.