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884.02   INSURANCE REQUIRED.
   No person shall operate a taxicab or permit such to be operated until and unless the owner of the taxi deposits with the Mayor a policy or certificate of liability insurance for each of the owner's taxicabs, acceptable to and approved by the Mayor and the Village Solicitor, indemnifying the owner and the driver of the taxi in the sum of at least five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for injury to one person and one million dollars ($1,000,000) for injury to more than one person, and five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) property damage in any one accident through the operation of the taxicab. The policy shall further contain a clause obligating the surety company to give ten days' written notice to the Mayor before cancellation of the policy. Such policy of insurance shall contain a provision for continuing liability thereunder to the full amount thereof, notwithstanding any recovery thereon. If at any time, in the judgment of the Mayor and the Solicitor, such policy is not sufficient for any cause, the Mayor may require the owner of such taxi to replace such policy with another approved by the Mayor and the Solicitor.
884.03   COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE REQUIRED FOR DRIVERS.
   No person shall drive a taxicab who has not obtained a current and valid commercial driver’s license issued to him or her by the State. No person, firm or corporation owning and/or operating taxicabs shall employ as a driver of such taxicabs any person who has not had issued to him or her by the State a current and valid commercial driver's license.
884.04   DISPLAY OF DRIVER'S LICENSE AND PICTURE.
   At all times there shall be on display inside the taxi, in such a position that it may be viewed by a passenger, a current, accurate picture of the driver of the taxi and also his or her current and valid State chauffeur's license or his or her current and valid taxi driver's license issued by any other Ohio municipality. The driver shall, upon request of a police officer, passenger or prospective passenger, display his or her State chauffeur's license.
(Ord. 1957-4. Passed 2-19-57.)
884.05   IDENTIFICATION OF CAB.
   On the outside of both sides of a taxicab, on the door, there shall be painted the word "taxi". In addition, an outside-lighted roof sign shall also indicate such identification. Such word may be used and appear along with other words painted on the outside of the cab.
(Ord. 1957-4. Passed 2-19-57.)
884.06   EXCEPTIONS.
   This chapter shall not apply to motor vehicles used exclusively for service at weddings, christenings or funerals or for ambulance work.
(Ord. 1957-4. Passed 2-19-57.)
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