As used in this chapter:
(a) “Public convenience and necessity” means a genuine need for additional taxicab transportation facilities in order to adequately and properly serve the needs and convenience of the general public.
(b) “Taxicab” means every passenger-type vehicle which is used or advertised to be used in the occupation of carrying passengers for hire along other than a fixed route, with no fixed or definite schedule.
(c) “Taxicab driver” means any person driving a taxicab. Whenever the owner or lessee of a taxicab is engaged in the driving thereof, in addition to being licensed as an operator, he or she shall also be qualified and licensed as a driver.
(d) “Taxicab operator” means a person owning and/or operating a taxicab in a taxicab business.
(e) “Taxicab stand” means any space on any street, alley or other Municipal property designated by the Director of Public Safety as a proper place for the exclusive use of taxicabs awaiting patronage.
(f) “Taximeter” means a mechanical device by which the fee due for the hire of a taxicab is mechanically computed upon the distance traveled and for waiting time, upon the face of which device such charge is indicated by figures.
(g) “Waiting time” means the time during which the taxicab is not in motion after arriving at the place to which it has been called and the time consumed while standing at the passenger's orders. No charge shall be made for any time lost by reason of delay caused by mechanical difficulties of the taxicab, for time lost by premature arrival in response to a call or for time lost en route to the destination because of any traffic conditions or delays.
(Ord. 1149. Passed 10-4-60.)