(a) "Public vehicle" shall mean every vehicle for the common carriage and conveyance of passengers for hire, except motor busses, and motor vehicles used solely for funerals, weddings and christenings.
(b) "Taxicab" shall mean every public vehicle equipped with or without a taximeter, used for the transportation for hire of not more than five passengers at any one time for which public patronage is solicited in whole or in part upon the streets or in quasi-public places.
(c) "Taximeter" shall mean any mechanical device or instrument by which the charge for hire of such taxicab is mechanically calculated, and on which the charge to be made to the passenger is plainly indicated by means of figures.
(d) "Automobile for hire" shall mean every public vehicle as herein defined, which does not seek its business on the public streets, and which is driven and in charge of the owner or his agent.
(e) "Owner" shall mean any person, firm or corporation who has control, direction of operation, maintenance or the benefit of the collection of revenue, derived from the operation of a public vehicle as herein defined, on or over the streets of the Municipality, whether as owner, licensee, bailee or otherwise, except a driver as hereinafter defined.
(f) "Driver" shall mean every person actually in charge of the operation as the chauffeur of a public vehicle as heretofore defined, whether as owner, agent, servant or employee of the owner.
(g) “Taxicab stands” shall mean those portions of the street set aside for the parking of taxicabs waiting and seeking employment.
(Ord. 1950-23. Passed 4-24-50.)