No operator shall operate a taxicab within the city limits without first having obtained a taxicab license therefore under the provisions of this chapter. However, any taxicab licensed to operate in any other municipality in this state may carry passengers from said other place to any point within the city and may freely enter, use and travel upon the streets thereof for that purpose without the owner or driver of said taxicab obtaining a license, so long as said owner or driver does not solicit or accept passengers within the city or otherwise operate therein.
(`89 Code, § 123.020)