(a) Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license must file with his or her application three unmounted, unretouched photographs of himself or herself, in such position as the Police Chief may direct, taken within the thirty days preceding the filing of his or her application. Photographs are to be of a size which may be easily attached to his or her license, one of which shall be attached to his or her license when issued, the others to be filed with the application in the office of the Police Chief. The photograph shall be so attached to the license that it cannot be removed and another photograph substituted without detection. Each licensed taxicab driver shall, upon demand of an inspector of licenses, a policeman or a passenger, exhibit his or her license and photograph for inspection. Where the application for a license is denied, two copies of the photograph shall be returned to the applicant by the Police Chief.
(b) Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall file with his or her application impressions of the fingers of his or her right and left hands, upon forms furnished by the Police Chief. The impressions shall be taken under the supervision of the Chief, or his or her duly delegated representative, at such place or places as may be designated by the Chief. Applications, with photographs and fingerprint impressions attached, shall forthwith be forwarded to the Police Department, and no license shall be issued under the provisions of this chapter until the receipt in writing from the Police Department of a report showing the result of the investigation of the application and an examination of the fingerprint impressions.
(Ord. 10505. Passed 12-6-54.)