Regulating the Operation of Taxicabs Amending Certain Sections of Ordinance No. 2979

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OFDIIIAIICE 7 3231 AN ORDINA7.CE REGULATING THE OIDEPATTON OT TAXICABS AIeIT ITDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF 07-DINANCE ;1/2979. BE IT ORDAIIIED by the Common Council of the City of South. Bend, Indiana: Section I. That Section XIII of Ordinance #2979, passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, On March 28, 1932, be amended to read as follows: PATES OF FAzE: No person, firm or corporation owning, operating or controlling any motor vehicle used as a taxicab within the limits of the City of South Bend shall charge less than the following rates to be determined by the following boundary: Olive Street on the West, ,'latch Factory on the East, Fairview Avenue on the South, City Limits on the North - thirty cents (30V), nor morethan the rate of thirty cents (30I) for any part of the area above set forth., .and that passengers going beyond the limits set forth in the boundary above described shall pay not more than the sum of twenty cents (20�) for each additional mile traveled by the customer of said cab and provided further that a taxicab may be hired at a rate of X2.00 per hour when so hired before the trip is begun and provided further that for each three minutes of waiting there may be made a charge of ten cents (10�). Waiting time shall include the time when the taxicab is not in motion beginning with the arrival at the place toviich it has been called, _ o or the time consumed while standing at the direction of the passenger, but no charge shall be made for time lost for the inefficiency of the taxicab or its operator or time consumed by premature res,�onse to ca]1. The above charges will be for one person or morn_ tan taxicab 'shall be let or hired upon a meter basis when the taximeter thereon is broken, out of order, or for any other reason does not accurately register the fare. Section II. That all other provisions and sections of Ordinance