Any person, upon receiving a license required by this chapter, shall open a business office in the City where telephone service will be maintained twenty-four hours a day and where taxicabs will be at the disposal of the public, upon request, twenty-four hours a day. Failure to operate such taxicabs or telephone service on a twenty-four hour basis shall be sufficient reason for the cancellation of any license issued to an owner of the taxicab. A business office shall be construed to mean an office in a building designated for commercial use. Such office shall not be located in a temporary building or in a building that is in existence under the basis of a temporary permit. However, Council, when it is satisfied that a business office, not necessarily in the City, shall be operated, and where telephone service will be maintained twenty-four hours a day, may waive the requirement of a business office located in the City.
(1974 Code § 7.113; Ord. 220. Passed 3-19-75.)