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(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