(A) Individual service shall be accorded the person or persons first employing a taxicab at the rate of fare designated by the rate card posted in the taxicab. No driver shall permit any other person to occupy or ride in the taxicab unless the person or persons first employing the taxicab shall consent to the acceptance of additional passengers.
(B) No vehicle shall receive or discharge passengers while in motion.
(C) Drivers shall not receive or discharge passengers in the roadway, but shall pull up to the right hand sidewalk as nearly as possible, or in the absence of a sidewalk, the right-hand side of the road and there receive or discharge passengers. Passengers may be discharged on either side of a one-way street.
(D) Vehicles shall make stops to discharge and take on passengers on the far side of street intersections or in designated loading/unloading areas.
(E) No driver shall permit more persons to be carried in a vehicle licensed under this chapter than the rated seating capacity of his or her vehicle as stated in the application for license for the vehicle. A child in arms shall not be counted as a passenger.
(F) No driver shall refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person are persons upon request unless previously engaged or unable or forbidden by the provisions of this chapter to do so.
(G) No driver shall receive, charge or collect any fares for transporting passengers within the city greater than the rate posted.
(H) No person shall refuse to pay the legal fare of any of the vehicles licensed under this chapter after having hired the vehicle. No person shall hire any vehicle with the intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired of the value of his or her service.
(`90 Code, § 21-7) (Ord. 2723, passed 8-16-83; Am. Ord. 3022, passed 7-15-97)