No taxicab driver or taxicab owner shall:
(a) Have on his/her person or about their cab any intoxicating liquors or concealed weapons;
(b) Convey for another any intoxicating liquors;
(c) Knowingly solicit or accept passengers engaged in or about to engage in any immoral or unlawful activity;
(d) Deceive or attempt to deceive any passenger, prospective passenger, or other person by any misrepresentation as to the number, ownership or other information regarding his/her taxicab;
(e) Coerce or attempt to coerce any person for the purpose of securing or attempting to secure the person as a passenger in such taxicab;
(f) Use any profane, boisterous or improper language;
(g) Be the cause of or engage in any quarreling, fighting or other unlawful acts;
(h) Loiter about a taxicab stand, except upon the driver's seat of his/her taxicab;
(i) Solicit passengers while at a taxicab stand, except while seated upon the driver's seat of his/her taxicab;
(j) Solicit passengers who have requested service from another taxicab operator;
(k) Accept passengers who have requested service from another taxicab company;
(l) Take any route other than the most direct route to a passenger's destination unless otherwise authorized or directed by the passenger; or
(m) Use any smoking products when a passenger is in the taxicab.
(Ord. 46-04. Passed 11-1-04.)