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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• • without the consent of Said passenger, and no driver shall, under penalty of violation of this ordinance, carry a number of passengers greater than the seating capacity of his taxicab. SECTION 22. - NO SOLICITATION Q STREETS.. - No person shall solicit passengers for a taxicab upon the streets or sidewalks of the City of South Bend, except the driver of a taxicab when sitting in or upon the driverts box in his vehicle, but the fact that such taxicab displays a device to indicate that such vehicle is not en- gaged shall not be considered as soliciting patronage. The driver of any taxicab shall remain on the driver' s seat or inside his ve- hicle at all times when such vehicle is standing upon taxicab stands or whenactually engaged in carrying passengers, provided that nothing . in this section shall be held to prohibit such driver from alighting to the street or sidewalk for the purpose of assisting passengers into or out of such vehicle, or to answer telephone calls at stands, or to perform any othexfnecessary act in the conduct of his business. SECTION 23. - RETURN O '' PROPERTY. - Whenever any package or article of baggage or goods of any kind shall be left in or on any taxicab, or whenany such package or article shall be left in the custody of the driver of any such vehicle, such driver shall, upon the discovery of such package or article, forthwith deliver the same to the police station in said city and into the hands of the officer in charge thereof, and receive . rom said officer a rei:eipt for same, unless such package or article shall be sooner diivered to the owner thereof on the order of said owner. SECTION 24. -'NO RIDING ON FRONT SEAT. - No driver or owner of. any taxicab licensed 'underthe provisions of this ordinance, shall permit or allow any person, except one person who pays his due fare, to ride on the front seat with the driver operating such vehicle while the same is engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire. SECTION gAs - Kg PARKING. - It shall be unlawful for the owner, driver or operator of any taxicab affected by this ordinance to cause or permit such taxicab to stand while waiting for employment at any place other than a taxicab stand so, designated - 10