TAXICAB REGULATIONS

§ 113.01 DEFINITION.

   For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   TAXICAB. Every motor vehicle used within the limits of the town for public hire, carrying passengers for hire, or furnishing for use passenger transportation for hire along or over the public streets or other highways within the town, the destination or route of which is under the direction of a passenger being transported therein. However, this term shall not be taken to mean any ambulance, city passenger bus, or school bus.

§ 113.02 COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS REQUIRED.

   No person or persons, firm, or corporation shall drive, run, or operate any taxicab upon or along any street or other highway in the town, except in accordance with regulations, terms, and conditions established by this chapter.

Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 113.03 LICENSE REQUIRED; APPLICATION.

   Any person or persons, firm, or corporation desiring to operate a taxicab or taxicab service upon or along the streets or other highways within the town, shall, before undertaking so to do, file a signed application form in writing for a license, duly sworn to be the applicant or applicants with the Town Council of the town, which application shall show the following:

   (A)   The name and address of the person, persons, partnership, firm, or corporation desiring the license; if a partnership or firm, the full name and address of each of the members thereof; if a corporation, the name and address of each of the officers thereof.

   (B)   That the applicant is financially able to render taxicab services as applied for and has the financial backing, including liabilities, as required by the town.

   (C)   That the applicant owns and is the sole owner of the taxicabs described in division (D) below, in his service.

   (D)   The make, model, factory number, and state license number of each motor vehicle to be driven and operated as a taxicab.

Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 113.04 LICENSE FEE.

   (A)   Upon the filing of an application, the Town Council shall then pass upon the application, taking into consideration the applicant, his financial standing, and his equipment for rendering taxicab service in the town. If the Town Council finds that it is for the best interests of the town and the citizens thereof that the applicant be issued a license to operate a taxicab service, then the Town Council shall instruct the Clerk-Treasurer to issue a license upon the compliance of the applicant with all other provisions of this chapter.

   (B)   The Clerk-Treasurer shall issue to the applicant, upon the approval of the Town Council as above, a license upon the payment of a fee of $10 for each taxicab to be operated, for any calendar year or fraction thereof the cabs are operated. The license shall continue in effect from year to year until revoked by the Town Council so long as the applicant or licensee shall pay into the hands of the Clerk-Treasurer the license fee herein prescribed on or before January 10 of each year.

§ 113.05 ISSUANCE OF LICENSE.

   Upon filing the application, approval thereof by the Town Council, and payment of the required fees as fixed in § 113.04, and provided the other stipulations and conditions hereof have been met, the Clerk-Treasurer shall issue to the applicant a license permitting the operation of the motor vehicle or motor vehicles described in the application for one year, commencing January 1 and ending December 31 of each year, subject to revocation as hereinafter provided.

§ 113.06 INSURANCE REQUIRED.

   (A)   No license shall be issued and no taxicab shall be operated on any street or highway within the town until there is filed with the Clerk-Treasurer of the town a policy of insurance executed by a company authorized to execute such instruments under the laws of the state, running for the year of the license to be issued to the applicant as by this chapter provided.

   (B)   The insurance policy shall provide for the payment of any final judgment that may be rendered against the insured for damages to property, bodily injuries, or death of any passenger or passengers or any other person or persons resulting from collision or other accident for which the person, persons, firm, or corporation may be found liable while operating the taxicab described in the application, in a sum not less than the state statutory minimums for property damage and for injury or death of any person or persons.

Penalty, see § 10.99