(A) The Taxicab Inspector shall transmit each application for a permit under this chapter, together with the fingerprints and photographs of the applicant and the certificate of the physician, to the City Manager or designee for its consideration. The Taxicab Inspector shall make such recommendations to the City Manager concerning any such application as he or she may deem consistent with the public interest, welfare, morals and safety. The City Manager or designee, upon favorable findings by it, shall order the permit issued.
(B) The following factors shall be deemed sufficient grounds for refusing to issue a permit or for revoking a permit already issued:
(1) Conviction of a felony against this state or conviction of any offense against another state which would have been a felony if committed in this state;
(2) Violation of any federal or state law relating to the use, possession or sale of alcoholic beverages or narcotic of barbiturate drugs;
(3) Addiction to or habitual use of alcoholic beverages or narcotic or barbiturate drugs;
(4) Violation of any federal or state law relating to prostitution;
(5) Non-citizenship in the United States;
(6) Habitual violation of traffic laws or ordinances.
(C) The City Council or designee may likewise refuse to issue the permit to anyone whose physical or mental condition as shown on the physician's certificate is such that, it would be unsafe to passengers or to the public generally for such a person to drive a taxicab.
(D) Appeals may be made to the City Council.
(Ord. passed - - )