Ordinance Regulating the Operation of Taxicabs

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SECTION 23. RENEWAL OF TAXICAB LICENSES: Taxicab licenses shall be renewed from year to year, not later than January 10th of each year and the fee for such renewals shall be paid into the city treasury in like amount as for the original issue of such licenses. Such renewals for taxicab licenses shall be made only upon the same conditions as required for the original application. ,[___SECTION 24. LICENSE PLATE AND NT BER: There shall be delivered to the licensee for each and every licensed taxicah a metal tag to be fastened and displayed upon the inside of said taxicab, facing and plainly visible from the rear seat thereof, which license tag shall contain the license number and the year for which the license was issued. In case any license tag or tags be lost, the licensee shall forthwith, and before further use of said taxicab, procure another license tag or tag.$, as the ease may be, from the City Controller, upon payment to him of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) for each and every additional license tag so procured and exhibiting to him such license for proper endorsement of the fact of another tag being procured. All taxicab licenses shall bit non - transferable. SECTION 25. DRIVERS SHALL NOT DECEIVE: It shall be unlawful for any person owning or driving any taxicab to deceive, misinform or mislead any passenger who may rile in such vehicle or who may desire to ride in such vehicle, as to his destination or the price to be charged for conveying such pass- enger; and any person owning or driving any taxicab, who shall overcharge a passenger, or charge a passenger in excess of the rate of fare as indicated on the taximeter, if a taximeter is placed therein and the taxi hired by mileage, and on the card or sign displayed inside of the said cab, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance and shall be subject to the penalty of revocation of his license in addition to any other penalty that the law may impose upon him. -15-