No person shall drive any taxicab carrying passengers for hire from place to place within the city unless that person shall have first applied to and secured from the chief of police a driver's permit to drive a taxicab. No person who owns or controls a taxicab shall permit it to be driven at any time for hire unless the driver of such taxicab shall first obtain and shall have then in force a taxicab driver's license issued under the provisions of this article.
(Code 1982, § 6-1027; Ord. of 11-22-88)