Amending Various Sections of Chapter 4 Licenses

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(2) The time reasonably necessary to take on or discharge passengers at the point of embarkement or discharge shall not be construed as a standing of the taxicab under the provisions of this section, provided that as soon as passengers have been received or discharged, the taxicab leaves the point of parking where such act of receiving or discharging passengers has taken place, unless the act occurred at a licensed stand. (r) Cruising; soliciting passengers. (1) Any taxicab driver may solicit employment by driving through any public street without stopping, other than when required because of obstruction of traffic, and at such speed as not to interfere with or impede traffic. (2) No driver shall solicit passengers for a taxicab except when sitting in the driver's compartment of such taxicab or while standing immediately adjacent of the curbside. The driver of any taxicab shall remain in the driver's compartment or immediately adjacent to his vehicle at all times when such vehcile is upon the public street, except that, when necessary, a driver may be absent from his taxicab for not more than five (5) consecutive minutes. NOthing herein contained shall be held to prohibit any driver from alighting to the street or sidewalk for the purpose of assisting passengers into or out of the vehicle. (3) No driver shall solicit patronage in a loud or annoying tone of voice or by sign or in any manner annoy any person or obsturct the movement of any persons, or follow any person for the purpose of soliciting patronage. (s) Receipt and discharge of passengers. Drivers of taxicabs shall not receive or discharge passengers in the roadway but shall pull up to the right -hand sidewalk as nearly as possible or in the absence of a sidewalk, to the extreme right -hand side of the road, and there receive or discharge passengers, except upon one -way streets, where passengers may be discharged at either the right- or left -hand sidewalk, or side of the roadway, in the absence of a sidewalk. (t) Refusal to convey orderly passengers prohibited. No driver of a taxicab shall refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person upon request anywhere in the City, unless previously engaged or unable or forbidden by the provisions of this section to do so, if such person agrees to pay the fare for the use of the taxicab. (u) Additional passengers. A driver may permit persons other than the first person employing the taxicab to ride in any such taxicab, unless the first person shall refuse to permit additional persons. (v) Number of passengers restricted;exception. No driver shall permit more persons to be carried in a taxicab as passengers than the rated seating capacity of his taxicab as stated in the license for the vehicle issued by the Police Department A child in arms shall not be counted as a passenger. (w) Unlawful acts. It shall be a violation of this article for any driver of a taxicab to solicit.business for any hotel, or to attempt to divert patronage from one hotel to another, or use his vehicle for any purpose other than the transporting of passengers. -51-