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SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL CODE
PREFACE
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 (Reserved)
Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 5.04 GENERAL LICENSING PROVISIONS AND TAXES
Chapter 5.06 SIDEWALK VENDING
Chapter 5.08 SPECIAL BUSINESS PERMITS (REPEALED)*
Chapter 5.12 CRUDE OIL PRODUCERS
Chapter 5.14 FILMING ACTIVITIES
Chapter 5.15 MARIJUANA USES AND ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED
Chapter 5.16 MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS AND PERMITS*
Chapter 5.17 MASSAGE TECHNICIANS
Chapter 5.18 HOTEL AND MOTEL REGULATIONS
Chapter 5.20 PRIVATE PATROL SYSTEMS
Chapter 5.24 PUBLICATION VENDING MACHINES
Chapter 5.28 SOCIAL CLUBS
Chapter 5.32 VEHICLES FOR HIRE
5.32.010 Definitions.
5.32.020 Permits--Required--Exceptions.
5.32.030 Carrier permit--Petition contents.
5.32.040 Carrier permit--Petition investigation--Terms of issuance.
5.32.050 Carrier permit--Hearing to determine need.
5.32.060 Carrier permit--Compliance with terms required.
5.32.070 Carrier permit--Suspension or revocation.
5.32.080 Permits--Entitlement to obtain licenses.
5.32.090 License plate or sticker required.
5.32.100 Vehicle numbering required.
5.32.110 Advertisements on or in vehicles.
5.32.120 Availability of service.
5.32.130 Permitted and prohibited methods of engagement.
5.32.140 Rates--Establishment authority.
5.32.150 Rates--Council review and approval required--Criteria.
5.32.160 Rates--Alterations.
5.32.170 Rates--Compliance with provisions required.
5.32.180 Rates--Display in vehicles required.
5.32.190 Refusal to pay fare prohibited.
5.32.200 Restrictions on employment of drivers.
5.32.210 Driver's permit--Required.
5.32.220 Driver's permit--Fee deposit--Application.
5.32.230 Driver's permit--Issuance of temporary permit.
5.32.240 Driver's permit--Applicant investigation.
5.32.250 Driver's permit--Issuance--Restrictions.
5.32.260 Driver's permit--Issuance--Terms.
5.32.270 Driver's permit--Issuance deemed evidence of compliance with chapter.
5.32.280 Driver's permits--Badge issuance.
5.32.290 Driver's permit and badge--Expiration and suspension.
5.32.300 Driver's permit--Renewal.
5.32.310 Driver's permit--Revocation--Grounds--Method.
5.32.320 Driver's permit--Appeals from actions of chief of police.
5.32.330 Driver's permit--Suspension or revocation by council.
5.32.340 Driver's permit and badge--Display and possession.
5.32.350 Carrier's responsibility regarding driver's permits.
5.32.360 Vehicle identification--Restrictions.
5.32.370 Identity lights.
5.32.380 Direct travel route required.
5.32.390 Grouping of passengers.
5.32.400 Number of passengers restricted.
5.32.410 Inspection of equipment--Unsafe vehicles.
5.32.420 Taximeters--Required--Operation.
5.32.430 Taximeters--Location and readability.
5.32.440 Taximeters--Inspections--Labeling.
5.32.450 Taximeters--Use of flag.
5.32.460 Taximeters--Computation of charges.
5.32.470 Waiting time--Defined--Allowances.
5.32.480 Receipts for fares.
5.32.490 Trip sheets and driver's reports.
5.32.500 Taxistands--Required.
5.32.510 Taxistands--Permits.
5.32.520 Taxistands--Use restricted to assignee.
5.32.530 Notices.
5.32.540 Rules--Enforcement.
5.32.550 Penalty for violations.
Chapter 5.36 MOBILE FOOD VENDING
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 (Reserved)
Title 8 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Title 11 (Reserved)
Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 13 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Title 14 (Reserved)
Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Title 16 OIL AND GAS CODE*
Title 17 TRAILER PARKS
Title 18 SUBDIVISIONS*
Title 19 (Reserved)
Title 20 ZONING
Title 21 PUBLIC DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT FEES TO BE PAID BY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES
PRIOR CODE CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
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5.32.130   Permitted and prohibited methods of engagement.
   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))
5.32.140   Rates--Establishment authority.
   The rates or fares to be charged the public by taxicabs shall be such as are approved by resolution of the city council.
(Ord. 74-4-724 § 1: Ord. 73-4-698 § 1: Ord. 71-12-685 § 1: Ord. 69-12-650 § 1: prior code § 5.28.250 (Ord. 309 § 13, 1948))
5.32.150   Rates--Council review and approval required--Criteria.
   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))
5.32.160   Rates--Alterations.
   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))
5.32.170   Rates--Compliance with provisions required.
   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))
5.32.180   Rates--Display in vehicles required.
   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))
5.32.190   Refusal to pay fare prohibited.
   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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