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A. It is unlawful for any driver of a taxicab, while driving such vehicle, to cruise, loiter, or stop on a public street for the purpose of soliciting passengers or seeking a place in a taxistand which is already occupied.
B. It is unlawful, however, for such vehicle, while proceeding to a regularly assigned taxistand, regularly established call station or to the carrier's principal place of business, to accept employment when hailed from the street or curb.
C. It is unlawful for such driver to accept passengers at any of the following places:
1. In any marked or unmarked crosswalk;
2. At any regularly established bus stop;
3. At any place in a street except alongside a curb;
4. Alongside any curb opposite a regularly established and marked traffic safety zone;
5. Within twenty-five feet of a taxicab stand assigned to another carrier.
(Prior code § 5.28.240 (Ord. 309 § 12, 1948))
A. No rate or fare shall be placed in effect, charged, demanded, or collected by any carrier for the transportation of passengers by vehicles as covered by this chapter until the city council, after a hearing upon its own motion or upon application, or upon complaint, shall have found and determined the rate to be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, nor in anywise in violation of any provision contained in this chapter or any provision of law; nor until the rate or fare to be placed in effect, charged, demanded, or collected shall have been established and authorized by the city council.
B. In establishing and authorizing such rates or fares, the city council shall take into account and give due and reasonable consideration to the cost of all comparable transportation services performed by all persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the transportation of persons for compensation in the city, whether by virtue of any franchise granted by the city council or otherwise, including length of haul, any additional transportation service performed or to be performed, or of any accessorial service, and the value of the facilities reasonably necessary to perform such transportation service.
(Prior code § 5.28.260 (Ord. 309 § 14, 1948))
A. The city council shall have power, upon a hearing upon its own motion, or upon application or upon complaint, to investigate a single rate or fare, or the entire schedule of fares in effect, charged, demanded, or collected for the transportation of passengers by vehicles covered by this chapter, and to establish a new rate, fare, or schedule of fares in lieu thereof.
B. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to empower the city council to establish or authorize any rate or fare, or any schedule of fares that will, by means of rebate, discount, allowance, premium, or penalty, violate the rates or fares specified in the carrier's permit, or the provisions contained in this chapter or any applicable provision of law.
(Prior code § 5.28.270 (Ord. 309 § 15, 1948))
It is unlawful for any carrier, or any agent or employee thereof, or any driver or operator of any vehicle covered by this chapter to charge, collect, demand, receive, arrange, solicit, or bargain for any amount of compensation other than the rates or fares established and authorized by the city
council.
(Prior code § 5.28.280 (Ord. 309 § 16, 1948))
A. Every taxicab used or operated under this chapter shall at all times have displayed therein, in a location and manner which shall have been approved by the city council, the rates to be charged for such taxicab service, and which rates shall always be visible to all passengers.
B. The driver of every other vehicle for hire shall have in his possession at all times rate cards upon which shall be printed the name and address of the owner of the vehicle and the rates authorized to be charged for the service. Every person making inquiry regarding the rates charged by the operator of the service shall be furnished with a copy of the printed rates.
(Ord. 84-06-924 § 3: prior code § 5.28.290 (Ord. 309 § 17, 1948))
It is unlawful for any person to refuse to pay the authorized fare of any of the vehicles mentioned in this chapter after having employed the same, and it is unlawful for any person to hire any vehicle defined in this chapter with intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired or engaged of the value of such service.
(Prior code § 5.28.300 (Ord. 309 § 18, 1948))
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