Ordinance Amending Sections 3, 16 & 21 of Ordinance No. 2979 and Section 1 of Ord. No. 3309 and Section 1 of Ord. No. 3359 for an Application Form for Licenses

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Section 4. That Section 16 of Ordinance No. 2979 be amended to read as follows: TAXI STANDS - PERMITS. Whenever any taxicab licensee shall file with the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City, on blanks provided by it, application for a permit to occupy a certain designated place a public street or place of said City as a stand for a or taxicabs and shall show on such application the number of taxi- cabs to be maintained at the particular stand and represents that there will be maintained near such stand or in the building next adjacent thereto, for at least eight (8) hours each day, a tele- connection directly to the main office of such applicant, or is that there will be maintained in the taxicabs using and occupying such stand two -way radio communication with the central office of the licensee, then the said Board, considering public convenience and necessity, may, in its sole discretion, permit such owner to occupy a stand. For the use of each of such stands on the streets of the City of South Bend the licensee shall pay to the City Controller said City the sum of Seventy -five Dollars ($75.00) per year for twenty -two (22) feet occupied as such stand. Provided, how- r, that if any taxi stand is granted by said City on streets t equipped with parking meters this license fee shall not be charged. No license or permit for the occupancy of such stand shall be transferred or assigned without the consent in writing ereon of the Secretary of said Board duly authorized and direct the said Board. The stand for which such license shall issue not encroach upon any part of the streets or curbs zoned or signated for any other purpose. All stands thus licensed shall be marked by the police by appropriate painting of the adjacent curb and by axing to the curb at each end of the stand a metal standard to 11.