(A) License required. No person shall operate a taxicab service, offer to transport, or transport any passenger or person for compensation or as a contractual service, from any location in the city unless licensed pursuant to this section.
(B) Exceptions. The following vehicles are not considered taxicabs pursuant to this section:
(1) Motor vehicles designed for transportation of the sick, injured or disabled persons, by vehicles commonly known as ambulances;
(2) A hearse used by funeral directors in that employment; and
(3) Motor vehicles owned by private or charitable organizations to transport their members, or the mentally or physically disabled, without compensation for that transportation.
(Ord. 2010-11, passed 8-16-10)