License & Regulate Owners & Taxicab Drivers to Perscribe Duties and Rules Under Which they May do Business on the Streets of City of South Bend

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a card or placard, plainly legible, showing the rates of fare under which said taxicab is operated; and the owner, driver or licensee in charge of said taxicab shall not demand, nor be entitled to re- ceive, any par for the conveyance of any passengers unless said card bearing said rates of fare shall be conspicuously displayed as here- inbefore provided; nor shall said owner, driver or licensee charge or collect a rate of fare greater than that revealed on said placard or sign. Each taximeter installed in each licensed taxicab shall be set in accordance with the rates of fare advertised and displayed on said placard or sign inside said cab, and not otherwise. SECTION 19. - 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 ride 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 passenger; and any person owning or driving any taxi- cab, 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 panalty of revocation of his license in addition to any other penalty that the law may impose upon him. SECTION 20. - RECEIPTS FOR FARES. - The owner or driver of any licensed taxicab shal10111ftmearMq deliver to the person paying for the hire of the same, at the time of such payment, areceipt for the fare so paid, which receipt shall contain a legible type or writ- ing or print the name of the owner, the name and license number of the driver,, the amount of the fare paid and the date of the payment. SECTION 21. - pRIVER MUST CONVEY. - Bo driver of a,licensed taxicab shall refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person or per- sons, within the capacity of his taxicab, upon request anywhere within the city, unless previously engaged or unable to do so, pro- vided such person or persons agree to pay the fare fixed for the operation of said taxicab. No driver of a licensed taxicab shall carry any other person than the person first employing the taxicab - 9 -