As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
(a) "Taxicab" means any vehicle by means of which individual service for compensation in the transportation of people on the public streets is furnished or offered to be furnished. Vehicles furnishing mass transportation of persons, such as trolley coaches and gasoline buses which are operated on fixed routes and schedules or between fixed termini, are expressly excluded.
(b) "Compensation" means any fare, reward or donation or other thing of value which a driver or owner of a vehicle accepts or receives in return for furnishing taxicab service.
(c) "Taxicab operator" means any person, firm or corporation engaged in the taxicab business excepting a driver as defined in subsection (d) hereof. It is the intent of this definition that anyone who drives a taxicab in any capacity other than as an employee shall be deemed to be an operator and shall in addition to being licensed as a driver also be required to be licensed as an operator.
(d) "Taxicab driver" means any person driving a taxicab. It is the intent of this definition that when the owner or lessee of a taxicab engaged in the driving thereof, in addition to being licensed as an operator, he shall also be qualified and licensed as a driver.
(e) "Taxicab stand" means any space on any street or way designated by the City Manager 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 the taxicab is mechanically computed upon the distance traveled and upon the 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 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, time lost by premature arrival in response to a call or en route to the destination because of any traffic conditions or delays.
(h) "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 of the City of Moraine. In the determination as to whether public convenience and necessity requires the issuance of additional licenses, consideration shall be given the following:
(1) The resulting effect upon the business of the then existing holders of licenses and upon the existing agencies of mass transportation;
(2) The effect on traffic congestion and safety of the public streets;
(3) The effect upon working conditions and wages or other compensation paid to drivers of taxicabs of existing holders of licenses;
(4) Whether persons holding licenses for the operation of taxicabs are, under normal conditions, adequately serving the public; and
(5) Whether the requirements of public convenience and necessity can be adequately met and complied with only by the issuance of additional licenses.
(i) "Finance Director" means the Finance Director of the City of Moraine or his designated representative.
(j) "Chief of Police" means the Chief of Police of the City of Moraine or his designated representative.
(Ord. 390. Passed 6-20-73.)