(A) No owner or driver shall operate or permit to be operated any taxicab or limousine in the city while some or any equipment used thereon shall be defective, unsafe or in an unsanitary condition and every taxicab shall be at all times subject to the inspection of any officer of the city.
('64 Code, § 22-5)
(B) The City Manager is authorized and directed to suspend without previous notice any taxicab permit whenever an owner or driver violates any of the provisions of division (A) of this section. The owner of the taxicab, the permit of which has thus been suspended, may within 30 days thereafter appeal such order of suspension to the City Council which shall, after due notice to the owner, hear and determine the matter and its decision thereon shall become final. The City Council in such decision may order a continued suspension of such permit until such time as the taxicab shall be restored to a safe or sanitary condition. Any owner or driver knowingly permitting any condition prohibited by division (A) of this section or this section to continue shall be subject to penalty for violation of this chapter.
('64 Code, § 22-6)
(Ord. 163, passed 12-20-60; Ord. 627, passed 3-24-83; Am. Ord. 655, passed 8-16-84) Penalty, see § 10.97