No taxicab license shall be issued unless the City Council, after a hearing, shall by resolution declare that the public convenience and necessity require the proposed taxicab service for which application for license is made; provided, that such declaration of public convenience and necessity shall not be necessary:
(a) For the licensing of the same number of taxicabs licensed for operation and operated under the same name and color on January 3, 1939, or the renewal of the same number of licenses annually.
(b) (1) For the renewal of licenses to the applicant for which the City Council shall have, at any time prior to the date of application for such renewal, made a declaration of public convenience and necessity.
(2) In determining where public convenience and necessity require the licensing of such taxicabs for which applications may be made, the City Council may take into consideration whether the demands of the public convenience and necessity require such proposed or additional taxicab service within the City, the financial responsibility of the applicant, the number, kind, type of equipment, the schedule of rates proposed to be charged, the color scheme to be used by the applicant, the increased traffic congestion and demand for increased parking spaces on the streets of the City that may result whether the safe use of the streets by the public, both vehicular and pedestrian, will be preserved by the granting of the additional license, and any other relevant facts as the City Council may deem advisable or necessary.
(Ord. 347, passed 6-26-1930; Ord. 410, passed 3-31-1941; Ord. 3783, passed 12-13-2010)