Ordinance Regulating the Operation of Taxicabs

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ordinance to operate taxicabs shall file with the Board of Public Safety of said city on blanks by it provided, an application for a permit to occupy a certain designated place upon a public street or place of said city as a stand for a taxicab or taxicabs and shall show on such application the number of taxicabs he wishes to main- tain at the particular stand, and represents that he will maintain on such stand or in the building next adjacent thereto, for at least eight (8) hours of each day a designated person who is authorized to take charge of and control such stand and receive calls for cabs, then the said Board is 'hereby authorized and empowered to grant a license or permit to such owner to so occupy a stand. Said Board shall not authorize any stand unless the place designated and requested by such applicant is suitable and desirable as a stand for taxicabs and located at such place or places where, in the judgment of the Board, the public may congregate, and where they may be best served and said Board may, in its discretion, re- voke or modify the license for such stand whenever the place becomes undesirable and /or unsuitable as a stand for taxicabs. The Board may refuse license if the applicant is not properly equipped to render adequate public service and cancel such permit whenever the licensee fails to occupy or to properly use such stand. ITo license or permit for the occupancy of such stand shall be transferred or assigned without the consent in writing thereon of the Secretary of said Board duly authorized and directed by the said Board. The stand for which such license shall issue shall not encroach upon any part of the streets or curbs zoned or.des- ignated for any other purpose. All stands thus licensed shall be marked by the Police Depart- ment by appropriate painting of the adjacent curb and by affixing to the curb at each end of the stand a metal standard to be furn- ished by the licensee with the words "Taxicab Stand of censee" plainly stencilled upon the same. All such stands may be occupied and used only by taxicabs belong- ing to or under the control of the particular licensee to whom the -10-