(a) "Taxicab", as used in this chapter, means every motor vehicle, equipped with or without a taximeter, used for transportation for hire of passengers for which public patronage is solicited in whole or part upon the streets or quasi-public places of the City.
(b) "Motor vehicle for hire", as used in this chapter, means every other motor vehicle used for transportation for hire of passengers other than a taxicab, which does not seek its business on public streets, and which may be hired or rented out to others for compensation, with or without a driver being furnished to operate the same. It shall not include motor vehicles used exclusively as hearses, ambulances or for services at weddings, christenings and funerals, nor motor vehicles of the City, of the Regional Transit Authority or buses operating under and by virtue of a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, over a regular route and between fixed termini.
(Ord. 1152. Passed 9-3-46.)