It shall be unlawful for any taxicab operator, driver or owner of any taxicab carrying passengers for hire within the corporate limits, to permit any person form the general public to ride in any taxicab for hire, when such taxicab owner, operator or driver is transporting in said taxicab for hire a paying passenger or passengers, if said passenger or passengers object thereto.
(1979 Code, § D-1-14) Penalty, see § 115.99