No person driving or operating a taxicab shall while operating the vehicle:
(A) Fail to maintain the qualification required for an operator’s permit under this chapter;
(B) Refuse without good cause to accept as a passenger any person desiring transportation who shall tender money sufficient to pay his or her fare to his or her stated destination;
(C) Attempt to secure passengers by shouts, cries or loud noises; or by laying hands upon the person or baggage of any person without the consent of the person; or by obstructing the movements of, or persistently following any person; or by loitering or repeatedly driving his or her vehicle back and forth in the immediate neighborhood of any individual stand set apart for a vehicle owned or leased by some other person, or in the neighborhood of any place of special public resort, such as theaters, ball parks and like places;
(D) Refuse to load and unload for any passenger hand baggage as may not exceed the reasonable internal capacity of the vehicle including the trunk or, after being requested, refuse to carry the baggage to or from the buildings as the passenger may enter or leave;
(E) Make false representations by word, act, conduct or appearance regarding the name or identity of persons owning or leasing the taxicab he or she operates, or regarding his or her own identity or refuse to give his or her name and the number of his or her vehicle to any person requesting the same;
(F) Refuse or fail, after being requested, to give a receipt for any fare;
(G) Fail or neglect to report to the Police Department, within 24 hours, all property left in his or her vehicle by any passenger;
(H) Fail or refuse to allow an appropriate deduction from any fare established by this chapter for any distance traveled or time lost through any disability or breakdown of his or her vehicle, or through any private purpose of his or her own; and/or
(I) Carry more than one person at a time in the taxicab unless every person to be carried in the taxicab consents thereto.
(`61 Code, § 22.4) (Ord. 303, passed 4-17-1956)