759.01 DEFINITIONS.

   (a)    "Taxicab operator" shall mean and include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, person, firm or co-partnership, their licensees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any Court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating, maintaining or managing one or more taxicabs within the City.

   (b)    "Taxicab" shall mean and include any motor driven vehicle engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire or fare or offered for hire or fare to the public for transportation, operating within the City, except motor buses operated on regular schedules and over regularly established routes.

   (c)    "Taxicab driver" shall mean any person who drives or operates a taxicab.

   (d)    "Street" shall mean and include any public street, alley and public way within the corporate limits of the City.

   (e)    "Manager" shall mean the City Manager or his authorized designee.

(1969 Code 113.01)

759.02 LICENSE REQUIRED.

   No taxicab operator shall operate or cause to be operated any taxicab for the transportation of persons for hire, on any street within the corporate limits of the City unless licensed to do so in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(1969 Code 113.02)

759.03 MANAGER TO REGULATE.

   The Manager shall require the filing of annual reports, schedules or rates of fare and other data by all taxicab operators operating within the City, prescribe rules and regulations and issue orders in conformity with the revisions of this chapter.

(1969 Code 113.03)

759.04 LICENSING FEES.

   At the time of the issuance of such license, and annually thereafter, on or before the first day of January of each calendar year, every taxicab operator now operating and which shall hereafter operate in the City, shall pay the following fees for each taxicab operated or to be operated by it, to wit:

   (a)    If placed in operation between January 1 and June 30 of any year, the sum of thirty dollars ($30.00) per year.

   (b)    If placed in operation after June 30 of any year, the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00).

   (c)    There shall be no refund of license fees paid in the event that any taxicab is taken off the streets and not thereafter operated by said operator during the time for which a license has been issued.

      (1969 Code 113.04)

759.05 LICENSING INFORMATION.

   No license shall be issued, nor shall any taxicab be operated upon the streets of the City until such taxicab operator shall have filed with the manager a statement setting forth:

   (a)    The make, model and color of the motor car to be used.

   (b)    The state license number of each vehicle.

   (c)    The factory V.I.N. number of each vehicle.

   (d)    The name of the owner of the car as indicated on the Certificate of Title.

   (e)    The seating capacity as originally purchased, and if changed or reconstructed, the seating capacity in its changed form.

   (f)    The name of the drivers who shall operate the motor vehicles their address, Social Security number and operator's license number, which information shall at all times be kept current.

      (1969 Code 113.05)