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(Ord. 10505. Passed 12-6-54.)
(a) A taxicab driver's license may be suspended or revoked at any time by the Police Chief upon his or her own initiative or upon the recommendation of the Chief to the Mayor for violation of any of the terms of this chapter. Before suspending or revoking such license, the Mayor shall afford the licensee the opportunity of a hearing upon the charges. The licensee may appeal from such order to a Board of Appeals composed of the Director of Law, the Director of Finance and the President of Council. Notice of such appeal shall be in writing and shall be filed with the Director of Finance within ten days after the making of such order. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for a hearing or decision.
(b) The board of appeals, within three days after the filing of such notice of appeal, shall proceed with the hearing of such appeal, at which hearing all parties interested shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard, and such Board of Appeals shall approve, modify or annul such order from which the appeal has been perfected, and the finding of such Board of Appeals shall be final on all parties thereto. The same procedure for appeal may be invoked by the holder or owner of any license issued for a public hack.
(Ord. 10505. Passed 12-6-54.)
There shall be kept in the office of the Police Chief a complete record of each license issued by this City to a taxicab driver, and of all renewals, suspensions and revocations thereof. The record shall be kept on file with the original application of the taxicab driver for a license.
(Ord. 10505. Passed 12-6-54.)
(a) No person shall operate any public vehicle unless there is attached thereto a taximeter which is used in determining the fare to be charged, except automobiles for hire for which the hourly charge shall be made as hereinafter provided, and no person shall charge any other or different fare than is recorded in the reading face of the taximeter, except, however, that the hourly rate or special trip rate hereinafter described may be used.
(b) After sundown the face of every taximeter shall be illuminated by suitable lights, so as to throw a continuous steady light thereon. No person shall use, or permit to be used, or drive for hire, a taxicab equipped with a taximeter which shall be inaccurate by more than five percent to the prejudice of the passenger.
(c) No driver of a public vehicle equipped with a taximeter or other similar device, while carrying passengers or under employment, shall display the signal affixed to such taimeter in such a position as to denote that such vehicle is not employed, or in such a position as to denote that his or her vehicle is employed at a rate different from that to which the passenger or user is entitled under the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 10505. Passed 12-6-54.)
(a) No person shall drive into, from or within the City, any public vehicle unless the charge for the use thereof is made in the manner set forth in this section. In the case of taxicabs, the charge shall be calculated and determined by the taximeter on the basis of the distance traveled, and the time consumed in waiting, and in the case of automobiles for hire, upon an hourly basis. No other and different method of computing the fare shall be employed by such public vehicles, except that taxicabs may accept employment whereby the fare is to be computed on an hourly rental or on a special trip rate basis, unless the Certificate of Necessity shall authorize a differing method of fare charges, in which event the fares or method shall be as so authorized and the provisions of Section 775.22 shall not be applicable. The driver shall at all times have in his or her possession, and on demand exhibit, a card showing the maximum authorized fares certified by the Police Chief, and no charges shall be made in excess thereof.
(Ord. 168-1956. Passed 6-8-56.)
(b) The maximum rates of fare for taxicabs, computed by meter, shall be as follows:
(1) For the first one-sixth mile or fraction thereof, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50);
(2) For each succeeding one-quarter mile or fraction thereof, thirty cents ($0.30);
(3) For each one minute of waiting time, twenty cents ($0.20);
(4) For each taxicab employed upon an hourly rate, ten dollars ($10.00) per hour.
(Ord. 236-1988. Passed 11-7-88.)
(c) Automobiles for hire, and taxicabs when employed upon an hourly basis, shall not charge in excess of three dollars ($3.00) per hour, provided, however, that for the first hour or fraction thereof no person shall operate any public vehicle and charge less than two dollars ($2.00) for the first hour or fraction thereof. For the use of such vehicle in excess of one hour, additional time shall be charged for on the basis of quarterly fractions of the rates charged for the first hour.
(d) In addition to the methods of charging hereinbefore provided, taxicabs may charge a special trip rate for each passenger occupying such public vehicle for certain trips to or between designated points and places of public gathering, resort and amusement, provided, however, that no charge shall be less than the minimum rate herein established.
(Ord. 168-1956. Passed 6-8-56.)
Every driver of a taxicab or automobile for hire shall have the right to demand payment of the legal fare in advance, and may refuse employment unless so prepaid. No driver of a public vehicle shall otherwise refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person or persons upon request, anywhere in the City, unless previously engaged. All taxicabs and drivers thereof shall operate on the basis of share-the-ride, provided that the number of passengers being transported in a taxicab shall not exceed the maximum number of passengers or persons allowed to ride in the motor vehicle as may be provided by ordinance or statute.
(Ord. 84-1967. Passed 4-17-67.)
No public hack shall, while soliciting employment, stand on any public street or place other than at or upon a public hack stand, designated or established in accordance with this chapter, nor shall any driver of such hack seek employment by repeatedly and persistently driving his or her hack to and fro in a short space in front of, or by otherwise interfering with the proper and orderly access to or egress from, any theater, hall, public resort, railway or other place of public gathering.
No person shall solicit passengers for public hacks except the driver of a public hack when sitting upon the driver's seat of the vehicle, and except that at special points designated by the Police Chief, not more than two agents may be employed to solicit business on the street, provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with accepting passengers at other places when such is previously arranged with the passenger or when hailed while en route. It shall be the duty of all police officers to notify the Chief of any violation of these provisions.
(Ord. 10505. Passed 12-6-54.)
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