(A) (1) The driver of any taxicab shall not seek employment or patrons by repeatedly and continuously driving his or her taxicab to and fro along a street which any theater, hotel, railway station or other place of public gathering is located, and shall not in any other manner obstruct or impede traffic in any of the streets, alleys or public places of the city.
(2) A driver of a taxicab may solicit employment by driving through any street or public place without stopping, at such speed and in such manner as not to interfere with or impede traffic, and may pass and re-pass any theater, hotel, railway station or other place of public resort or public gathering in the pursuit of the ordinary business of conveying passengers along and on the public streets or other places.
(B) The driver of a taxicab shall not request or solicit persons to take passage in the taxicab when the persons are waiting to take passage on a city bus at a regular loading point, nor shall a driver of a taxicab drive in between a city bus which has stopped for the purpose of taking on passengers, and the curb adjacent to the bus or stop immediately in the rear thereof, for the purpose of soliciting passengers into the taxicab while the city bus has stopped to take on passengers.
(C) A taxicab driver shall not solicit passengers for a public taxicab on the streets and public places in the city by out-cry or the blowing of a horn; except that, at a railroad station, the operator may solicit by word-of-mouth while within ten feet of his or her cab.
(Ord. 28-2017, passed 8-21-2017) Penalty, see § 115.999