761.09 PUBLIC HEARING.

   Upon receipt of the initial application or a subsequent application to amend a certificate of public convenience and necessity, the City Manager, or his designated representative, shall thereupon set a date for public hearing upon the application and shall cause a notice of the public hearing to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Butler County at least one week prior to the date of the hearing. The City Manager or his representative shall investigate the statements contained in the application and determine whether granting the application will further public convenience and necessity.

   At the hearing, the City Manager, or his designate, shall receive information and argument as to the need or desirability of allowing another taxicab business in the City with respect to the public convenience and necessity from the applicant and from other persons who may appear. From such information and argument, and from such additional information as may have been obtained through independent investigation, the City Manager shall determine whether public convenience and necessity require the issuance of the certificate applied for.

(Ord. 92-8-66. Passed 8-12-92.)