(a) Each licensee must maintain each taxicab in a clean and safe operating condition, and properly maintain its lights, brakes, window glass, doors, tires, fenders, paint, upholstery, and all devices and parts affecting the vehicle’s safety, operation, or appearance.
(b) Each licensee must comply with any order of the Director to immediately remove from service any taxicab which is not in safe operating condition, and to remove from service within 5 days any taxicab that is not clean, sanitary, and of good appearance, until all necessary repairs and replacement of defective equipment, painting, or cleaning has been completed.
(c) Any taxicab removed from service under this Section must not be reinstated in service until it has been inspected and approved under procedures established by applicable regulation. (2004 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 1; 2015 L.M.C., ch. 39, § 1.)