(a) No person shall drive or operate a taxicab unless duly licensed by the City of Zanesville as herein provided.
(b) Every applicant for a license as a driver of a taxicab shall make application to the Director of Public Safety on forms to be supplied by the Director of Public Safety. Each such application shall set forth that the applicant is a citizen of the United States; able to speak, read and write the English language; is eighteen years of age or older; free of defective vision, defective hearing, epilepsy, heart trouble, communicable social disease, and any other relative infirmity, physical or mental which, in the opinion of the Director, would render the applicant unfit for the safe operation of a taxicab; not addicted to drugs or drugs; and such other pertinent information as the Director may require. Applications shall be notarized.
(c) The application form shall further contain the certificate of a reputable physician who shall certify, after examination, that the applicant is free from each and every relevant infirmity mentioned in this section, and any other infirmity detected upon examination which would prevent the applicant from driving a taxicab with safety to the public; each application shall also contain a certificate signed by a reputable oculist or optometrist setting forth the applicant's condition as to visual acuity, including field of vision and color vision, together with a statement that the applicant has no eye condition which would prevent the applicant from driving a taxicab with safety. (Ord. 11-87(A). Passed 2-13-12.)