For the purpose of this chapter the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"TAXICAB." Every motor vehicle, except those usually defined as a bus, ambulance, funeral car, or school bus or similar type vehicles, used within the city limits for public hire and to carry passengers for hire along or over public streets, avenues, or other highways in the city where a charge is made for such service, the destination or route of which is under the direction of a passenger transported therein. The motor vehicle that will be used for this purpose shall have no fewer than four doors.
(Ord. 1988-3, passed 5-2-88)