As used in this chapter:
(a) "Director" means the Municipal Administrator.
(b) "Public vehicle" means all vehicles furnishing service as a business in the transportation of persons; they are hereby classified as:
(1) Public vehicles which seek business on the public streets or public places, namely taxicabs;
(2) Public vehicles not equipped with taximeters which use the streets for transporting passengers for hire and seek business, or a part thereof, on the public streets or public places, namely motor vehicles for hire. Nothing herein shall apply to vehicles furnishing mass service, such as street railway cars, motorbuses and omnibuses, which move over fixed routes or on fixed schedules, or between fixed termini.
(c) "Taxicab" means any public vehicle that seeks business, or a part thereof, on public streets or public places.
(d) "Motor vehicle for hire" means any public vehicle, other than funeral cars and driverless motor vehicles for hire, which does not seek business on the public streets or public places and which is driven and in the charge of the owner or his employee. Public vehicles used for livery purposes are "motor vehicles for hire."
(e) "Taximeter" means any mechanical instrument or device by which the charge for hire for a public vehicle is mechanically calculated and on which the charge is plainly indicated.
(f) "Cruising" means operating a taxicab or motor vehicle for hire through the streets and thoroughfares of the Municipality without passengers, and in such a manner that one point is passed more than once in ten minutes or such time as may be specified by Council, or with or without passengers, in such a manner as to retard or interfere with traffic.
(Ord. 223. Passed 4-22-47.)