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The following license fees shall be paid: For the first taxicab operated by any person, the sum of $100 per year; for each additional taxicab, the sum of $25 per year. All licenses hereunder shall be paid quarterly in advance, and no license shall issue for less than one quarter. A metal plate or other suitable tag or sticker shall be furnished by the City Clerk for each taxicab so licensed, which plate, tag or sticker shall at all times be firmly affixed in a conspicuous place on the front of the taxicab.
('71 Code, § 4-16-4) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) No person shall operate a taxicab as the driver thereof without first having obtained a driver's license in the manner hereinafter set forth, and unless said license is in full force and effect.
(B) Any person desiring a license as a driver of a taxicab shall file an application with the City Clerk setting forth the name, sex, residence address, date and place of birth, former occupation, experience as a driver and such other information as the Mayor or Clerk may require. Such license shall be issued by the Mayor to all persons of good moral character who have complied with this subchapter and with all the laws of the state governing taxicab drivers. No license shall be issued to any person under the age of 21 years.
(C) Each driver shall carry the license issued to him under this subchapter at all times that he is driving or on duty with any such taxicab, and shall exhibit it upon demand to any city policeman or law enforcement officer.
('71 Code, § 4-16-5) (Am. Ord. 2886, passed 4-11-94) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) The Mayor shall have the right to revoke any taxicab license issued hereunder whenever said taxicab is not kept in the mechanical or sanitary condition required by this subchapter, or is not equipped with the proper devices in good repair as herein required.
(B) The Mayor shall have the right to revoke any license issued hereunder to any person as a taxicab driver whenever such person violates any of the provisions of this subchapter or any other provision of this code governing taxicabs or traffic, and also whenever it appears that a person holding any such license is not of good moral character.
('71 Code, § 4-16-11)
Every taxicab operated upon the streets of the city shall be kept and maintained in a good and safe mechanical condition.
(A) Every such taxicab during the month of January and the month of July of each year shall be subjected to the safety test hereinafter provided at an official posting station as established and set up by ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 13-101 et seq. Said safety test shall include the testing and inspection of brakes, lights, horns, reflectors, rear view mirrors, safety chains, frames, axle, body, wheels, steering apparatus and other safety devices and appliances. The passing of the safety test shall not be a bar at any time to prosecution for operating or causing to be operated a taxicab not in good and safe mechanical condition.
(B) If the taxicab is in safe mechanical condition the operator of the official testing station shall at once issue and affix to said taxicab a certificate of safety which shall at all times be displayed on said taxicab. No certificate of safety issued during the first six months of any year shall be of any effect after August of that year and no such certificate issued during the second six months of any year shall be of any effect after February 1 of the succeeding year.
(C) No taxicab shall be operated upon the streets, alleys or public places of the city without having been tested as herein required or without having said certificate of safety displayed on said taxicab.
('71 Code, § 4-16-6) Penalty, see § 10.99
Each taxicab shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.
('71 Code, § 4-16-7) Penalty, see § 10.99
No taxicab shall be driven, operated or controlled so as to violate any of the parking or traffic provisions of this code or so as to obstruct traffic or interfere with the free movement of traffic upon any street, alley or public place. No person shall drive, operate or control any such taxicab while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, and no driver shall drink any intoxicating liquor, either inside or outside of said taxicab during the hours he is driving or on duty with said taxicab.
('71 Code, § 4-16-8) Penalty, see § 10.99
No person shall be allowed to ride in the front seat of any taxicab with the driver except at such times as the rear seat or seats are fully occupied by paying passengers and the person riding in said front seat is a bona fide and paying passenger.
('71 Code, § 4-16-9) Penalty, see § 10.99
No unemployed taxicab shall stand or be parked upon any public street or alley except at such places as from time to time shall be designated by the City Council as taxicab stands and allotted to the particular licensee in question.
('71 Code, § 4-16-10) Penalty, see § 10.99