(A) No public taxicab, while awaiting employment by passengers, shall stand on any public street or place other than upon a public taxicab stand designated or established in accordance with this chapter, nor shall any driver of such taxicab seek employment by repeatedly and persistently driving his taxicab to and fro in a short space before or by otherwise interfering with the proper and orderly access to or egress from any theater, hall, hotel, public resort, railway station, or other place of public gathering or in any other manner obstructing or impeding traffic. But any taxicab may solicit employment by driving through any public street or place without stops other than those due to obstruction of traffic and at such speed as not to interfere with or impede traffic, and may pass and repass before any theater, hall, hotel, public resort, railway station or other place of public gathering; provided, that after passing such public place, he shall not turn and repass until he shall have gone a distance of two square blocks beyond such place.
(B) In the event of any violation of any of the provisions of division (A) of this section, any police officer may forthwith take up the license of the driver of such taxicab and forward it to the Chief of Police, who shall suspend such license for a period of not exceeding 90 days. It shall be unlawful for such driver to operate any taxicab in the city during the period of such suspension.
(C) In case of persistent or repeated violations, the Chief of Police may suspend and the City Council may revoke the taxicab license of the owner of such taxicab; provided, that such owner has had timely notice and an opportunity to be heard in his defense against the revocation of such license. In the event of such revocation, for a period of one year thereafter such owner shall be ineligible to receive a license under this chapter, and no license shall be issued during the same period for the operation of the vehicles so used or operated in violation of this section.
('68 Code, § 5-541) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68) Penalty, see § 120.999