(a) Backing from and into a taxi stand. No person shall back a taxicab from a taxi stand onto a public highway. No person shall back a taxicab from a public highway into a taxi stand where it is otherwise legally possible to maneuver such taxicab so as to thereafter emerge from the taxi stand without backing onto the highway.
(b) Intoxicating liquor. Intoxicating liquor, as defined by HRS § 281-1, as amended, shall not be carried in any taxicab during the business hours of such taxicab, except as the property of a passenger riding in the taxicab, or as property for hire.
(c) Responding to calls. The operator of a taxicab or taxicab company shall not refuse to furnish an unengaged, available taxicab and driver during the business hours of such taxicab or taxicab company upon call or request from an orderly person located within 2 miles of such stand, by the most direct street route. No taxicab driver, while on duty and not engaged in another call, shall fail to drive an available taxicab in response to a call or request from an orderly person.
(d) Additional passengers. Except as provided in § 36-1.20 relating to shared-ride taxicab service, additional passengers shall not be picked up without the consent of all the passengers for hire, already in the taxicab. The fare of the additional passengers for hire shall be based upon a new taximeter reading from the point of departure of the last departing passenger for hire to the destination of the additional passengers for hire.
(e) Kickbacks.
(1) Taxicab companies and drivers are prohibited from paying kickbacks to hotel doorpersons or other persons that dispatch taxicabs. It shall also be unlawful for a hotel doorperson or other person to solicit or receive such a kickback from a taxicab company or taxi driver. This provision shall not apply to legitimate commissions paid to tour and travel companies, legitimate payments to taxicab companies, or salaries or wages paid to dispatchers employed by taxicab companies.
(2) For the purpose of this subsection, “kickback” means a payment by a taxicab company or driver to a hotel doorperson or other person who dispatches the taxicab company or driver to carry a passenger for hire, property for hire, or both, when the payment is required, explicitly or implicitly, by the hotel doorperson or other person as consideration for the dispatch.
(Sec. 12-1.5, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 12, Art. 1, § 12-1.4) (Am. Ords. 88-98, 89-13, 93-85)