(A) Solicitation of passengers by driver. No driver shall solicit passengers for a taxicab except when sitting in the driver’s compartment of such taxicab or while standing immediately adjacent to the curb side thereof. The driver of any taxicab shall remain in the driver’s compartment or immediately adjacent to his or her vehicle at all times when such vehicle is upon the public street, except that when necessary, a driver may be absent from his or her taxicab for not more than five consecutive minutes, and provided further that nothing herein contained shall be held to prohibit any driver from alighting to the street or sidewalk for the purpose of assisting passengers into or out of such vehicle.
(B) Prohibited solicitation. No driver shall solicit patronage in a loud or annoying tone of voice or by sign or in any manner to annoy any person or obstruct the movement of any persons, or follow any person for the purpose of soliciting patronage.
(C) Receipt and discharge of passengers on sidewalk only. Drivers of taxicabs shall not receive or discharge passengers in the roadway but shall pull up to the right hand sidewalk as nearly as possible or in the absence of a sidewalk, to the extreme right hand side of the road and there receive or discharge passengers, except upon one-way streets, where passengers may be discharged at either the right or left sidewalk, or the side of the roadway in the absence of a sidewalk.
(D) Additional passengers. No driver shall permit any other persons to occupy or ride in such taxicab, unless the person first employing the taxicab shall consent to the acceptance of additional passenger or passengers, except for the transportation of school children to or from school on a regular pickup schedule. No charge shall be made for an additional passenger except when the additional passenger rides beyond the previous passengers destination and then only for the additional distance so traveled. If two or more passengers are transported to different destinations, the taximeter shall be reset at the end of each trip.
(E) Refusal to carry orderly passengers prohibited. No driver shall refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person, upon request, unless previously engaged or unable or forbidden by the provisions of this chapter to do so.
(F) Prohibitions of drivers. It shall be a violation of this chapter for any driver of a taxicab to solicit business for any hotel, or to attempt to divert patronage from one hotel to another. Neither shall such driver engage in selling intoxicating liquors or solicit business for any house of ill repute or use his or her vehicle for any purpose other than the transporting of passengers, or the transporting of parcels or packages not exceeding 100 pounds.
Penalty, see § 110.99