747.01 FRANCHISE OR PERMIT REQUIRED.

   No person who is not the grantee of, or the assignee of such grantee under valid assignment of a franchise or nonrevocable permit authorizing such service, shall engage in the business of transporting passengers for hire over regular or fixed or habitual routes along, over, upon or across the streets and other public ways of the City whether such transportation is rendered by means of motor coaches, or other vehicles or conveyances; but no provision in this section shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with the carriage of passengers by taxicabs operated under the provisions of Chapter 761, nor with the carriage of passengers by interurban carriers from or to points beyond the limits of the City. (Ord. 3335. Passed 4-5-33.)