Amending Ordinance No. 2752 Known as an Ordinance known as License & Regulate Taxicab Owners

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so occupy such 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 atsuch 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, revoke or modify the license for such stand whenever the place becomes undesirable and/or unsuitable as a stand for taxicabs. The said Board may refuse license the the applicant is not properly equipped to render adequate public service and cancel such license or permit whenever the licensee fails to occupy or to properly use such stand. No 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 designated 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 furnished by the licensee with the words "Taxicab Stand of Licensee" plain- ly stencilled upon the same. All such stands may be occupied and used only by taxicabs belonging to or under the control of the particular licensee to whom the same is assigned for the full period of twenty- four (24) hours each day, except that all such taxicab stands shall always be available for use by the Police of Fire Department of said City and shall be subject to the rights of reasonable ingress and egress of the abutting property owner or his lessee. I I Only such persons as are licensed to occupy taxi stands may occupy and use such stands and may not occupy any place as a taxicab stand not authorized or licensed by said Board of Public Safety. All licenses so issued shall terminate on December 31st of the year in which issued. SECTION 31-d It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee or operator of any taxicab affected by this ordinance to cause or permit such taxicab to stand while waiting employment at any place other than a taxicab stand so designated and licensed to such owner and/or operator and/or lessee. The standing of any taxicab at a stand other than such for which the owner and/or operator and/or leasee holds a stand license as herein provided shall be cause for revocation of the taxicab license provided for by this ordinance. The time reasonably necessary to take on or discharge passengers at points of embarkment or discharge, shall not be construed as a standing of the taxicab; but, unless at licensed stands, as soon as such passengers have been received or discharged, the taxicab shall, unless at a licensed stand, leave the point of parking where such act of peeeiving or discharging passengers has taken place . SECTION 31-e. All other provisions of said Ordinance Numbered 2752 shall remain in full force and effect, including the penalties which shall apply to these sections, save and except as herein modified. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and legal publication. / • • i GEO. F. HULL �/, )112201E?t OF THE C OM! ON COUNCIL.