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Every driver of a taxicab shall have the right to demand payment of the legal fare in advance, and may refuse employment until so prepaid, but no driver of a taxicab shall otherwise refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person or persons upon request anywhere in the city unless previously engaged or unable to do so.
('68 Code, § 5-538) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68) Penalty, see § 120.999
No driver of a licensed taxicab shall carry any other person than the person first employing a taxicab without the consent of the passenger.
('68 Code, § 5-539) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68) Penalty, see § 120.999
No person shall be permitted to ride on the front seat with the driver of a taxicab unless said taxicab has a full load of passengers which were picked up at the same location. In that event, the driver must discharge the front seat passenger first. This provision shall not apply to passengers who are physically handicapped and unable to be transported in the rear set of a taxicab. Any driver who fails to comply with this section may be deprived of his license.
('68 Code, § 5-542) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68; Am. Ord. 506, passed 4-5-76) Penalty, see § 120.999
No person shall solicit passengers for a public taxicab upon the streets and highways of the city, except the driver of a public taxicab when sitting upon the driver's box of his vehicle. The chauffeur or driver of any taxicab or automobile kept for hire shall remain on the driver's seat or inside his vehicle at all times when such vehicle is standing upon the public stands or when actually engaged in carrying passengers; provided, that nothing in this section shall be held to prohibit such driver or chauffeur from alighting to the street or sidewalk for the purpose of assisting passengers into or out of such vehicle or take care of the calls of nature while upon a public stand, limiting his absence from such stand to 30 minutes, during which time his taxicab or car for hire shall occupy a position at the rear end of such public stand.
('68 Code, § 5-540) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68) Penalty, see § 120.999
RATES AND FARES
(A) Every taxicab shall have a taximeter affixed thereto. The case of each taximeter shall be sealed and the cover and gear thereof intact. Every taximeter shall be so affixed that the amount of the fare determined shall be plainly visible to the passengers thereof, and after sundown shall be illuminated by suitable light.
(B) No person shall operate or permit to be operated any taxicab unless the taximeter has been first inspected, tested and approved by the sealer of weights and measures, for which service a fee of $2 shall be charged for each inspection. The taximeter shall be examined at least once annually and there shall be a record kept of all such inspections and approvals and disapprovals; such taximeter shall be approved by a proper sealer of weights and measures with certification thereon.
('68 Code, § 5-514) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68) Penalty, see § 120.999
(A) Taxicabs.
(1) The rates to be charged and collected for service by taxicabs shall be the following:
(a) $2.00 flag;
(b) $2.20 per mile (pro-rated per mile);
(c) $25.00 an hour for waiting;
(d) $0.20 drop (incremental change in meter).
Waiting time shall include the time when the taxicab is not in motion, beginning with the arrival at the place to which it has been called, or the time consumed while standing at the direction of the passenger, and for delays caused by slow-moving traffic or traffic lights, but no charge shall be made for time lost for inefficiency of the taxicab or its operator or time consumed by premature response to a call. No charge shall be made for extra passengers.
(2) The City Council reserves the right to increase or decrease the rates established by this section, which rates may be changed from time to time by resolution of the City Council. No rate change shall be made except as may be established by the City Council. There shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the inside of the taxicab a card on which shall be printed, in plain, legible type, the rates of fare provided for in this chapter, the meter rate of the taxicab and reference to this section number.
('68 Code, § 5-515) (Ord. 815, passed 8-6-07)
(B) Motor vehicle for hire.
(1) No person operating a motor vehicle for hire shall operate the same within the city other than on an hourly rate. The schedule of rates for service of such vehicle shall be as follows: For the use of any such motor vehicle for hire carrying two or less passengers, not more than $3 per hour; for use of such motor vehicle for hire carrying three to five passengers, not more than $3.50 per hour; for the use of such motor vehicle for hire carrying more than five passengers, not more than $4.50 per hour. No charge of less than $2.50 per hour shall be charged for the use of such motor vehicle for hire for the first hour or any fraction thereof.
(2) For the use of motor vehicles for hire where such vehicle has been used in excess of one hour, additional time shall be charged for on the basis of quarter hour fractions of the rate charged for the first hour's use of such vehicle. The amount so charged shall be upon an hourly basis.
(3) The time shall begin when the motor vehicle is ready at the time and place requested by the passenger, and shall continue until the passenger has been discharged and the car shall have had time thereafter to return to the garage or stand by the most direct route, and at the maximum speed permitted by law. The driver of a motor vehicle for hire shall give the passenger a receipt showing the time when the trip commenced and concluded and shall be signed by the driver.
(4) There shall be displayed, in plain public view on each motor vehicle for hire, a sign giving the rates charged by the hour.
(5) This section shall not apply to a taxicab where a taximeter is attached thereto.
('68 Code, § 5-516)
(Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68)
No change in fare shall be charged until the taximeter shall be adjusted to the change in fare and the meter approved by the sealer of weights and measures. No fare in excess of or less than the indication shown by the taximeter shall be charged.
('68 Code, § 5-517) (Ord. 319, passed 7-15-68) Penalty, see § 120.999
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