(A) (1) No person shall drive a taxicab on the streets of the city without first having obtained a taxicab driver license. Applications for a license shall be made to and licenses issued by the Police Department. No license shall be granted except upon certification by the Chief of Police, and filing of a photograph and complete set of the fingerprints of the applicant in the noncriminal identification file of the Police Department. Two photographic pictures of each applicant shall be furnished at the time of application. The size and form of the photographs shall be prescribed by the Police Department.
(2) That part of Chapter 110 requiring licensees to carry licenses on their persons shall not apply to taxicab drivers. The license issued to a taxicab driver shall be conspicuously displayed on the inside of the taxicab operated by him and illuminated at night.
(3) Every applicant shall be 18 years of age or over and able to read and write and be issued a Michigan chauffeur's license. Every applicant shall furnish the Police Department with any information as it may require, and as may be reasonably necessary in order to investigate the background and character of the applicant. The Chief of Police shall refuse to certify any person whose record of previous driving violations is such as to indicate that he is not habitually a careful, skilled, and prudent driver. In the discretion of the Chief of Police, a temporary taxicab driver license, valid for a period not to exceed 20 days, may be issued to any applicant pending certification by him.
(‘83 Code, § 114.12)
(B) No person having a taxicab driver license shall allow any other person to use or attempt to use the license for any purpose. No person shall use or have in his possession while operating a taxicab in the city, any taxicab driver license which has been issued to any other person. No taxicab licensee shall permit any person not having a taxicab driver license to operate any taxicab. (‘83 Code, § 114.14)
Penalty, see § 10.99