Every person engaged in the business, including the operating of a taxicab or auto livery business, of renting or hiring out motor vehicles, as well as the driver so employed or engaged in the driving of any motor vehicle used in any such business, shall keep a true and correct record of every trip made by each such driver so employed, or the said business as operated. Said record shall show the exact time when such person's employment ended and the place where the person's passenger, or if more than one, where each passenger was discharged, which record shall at all times be open to inspection and copying by any police officer of this city upon demand. (Prior code title 46, art. 15 § 252)