(a) License Required. No person shall drive a taxicab within the City unless the person has first obtained an operator's license from the City Manager as hereinafter provided.
(b) Application. The City Manager shall issue the license required by subsection (a) hereof to a taxicab driver for a term not to exceed twelve months, and only when the taxicab driver shall have deposited with the City Manager:
(1) His signed application showing his name, address, age, date of issuance of his current state driver's license;
(2) Evidence to the satisfaction of the City Manager that he is of good reputation and that he has never suffered any such license to be revoked;
(3) A license fee of three dollars ($3.00) for each six months period or fraction thereof, no part of which may be recoverable after the license is issued.
(c) Expiration or Revocation. A taxicab driver's license as required by subsection (a) hereof shall become void on each February 1, and may be revoked at any time by the City Manager for the driver's violation of any City ordinance, State or Federal law.
(1950 Code, §225.)