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SECTION 26. DRIVER MUST CONVEY: <br />No driver of a licensed taxicab shall refuse or neglect to convey <br />any orderly person or persons, within the capacity of his taxicab, <br />upon request anyvahere within the city, unless previously engaged or <br />unable to do, provided such person or persons agree to pay the fare <br />fixed for the operation of said taxicab. No driver of a licensed <br />taxicab shall carry any other person than the person first employing <br />the taxicab without consent of said passenger, and no driver shall, <br />under penalty of violation of this ordinance, carry a number of pass - <br />engers greater than the.seating capacity of his taxicab. <br />SECTION 27, RErM OF PROPERTY: <br />Whenever any package or article of baggage or goods of any kind <br />shall be left in or on any taxicab, or when any such package or <br />article shall be left in the custody of the driver of any such <br />vehicle, such driver shall, upon the discovery of such package or <br />article, forthwith deliver the same to the company's main office and <br />into the hands of the management in charge thereof and receive from <br />said manager a receipt for same, unless such package or article <br />shall be sooner delivered to the owner thereof on the order of said <br />owner. <br />SECTION 28. NO RIDING ON FRONT SEAT: <br />No driver or owner of any taxicab licensed under the provisions <br />of this ordinance shall permit or allow any person, except one <br />person who pays his due fare to ride on the front seat with the <br />driver operating such vehicle while the same is engaged in the <br />business of carrying persons for hire. <br />SECTION 29, DIRECT ROUTE: <br />Any taxicab driver employed to transport passengers to a definite <br />point shall take the shortest and most direct route possible that will <br />carry the passengers to his destination safely and expeditiously. <br />SECTION 30. DRIVER'S OBLIGATION: <br />The driver of any taxicab who shall report from his location or <br />stand to the central station or office of the owner that his cab is <br />available for service and who shall receive after such report an order <br />-16- <br />