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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• on all such policies exceed the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars 4420,000.00) , regardless of the number of city licensed taxicabs owned and operated by said owner; which policy or policies of in- surance shall insure said owner or operator against liability for the payment of any final judgment that may be rendered against him or it for damages tb the property of others or for the bodily injury to or death of others, resulting from accident or collision, for which said owner or operator will be liable, on account of any acts of negligence of his, or his agents or servants in the negligent operation of said taxicab or taxicabs, or which may arise or result from any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance or the laws of the State of Indiana by him, his or its agents, or ser- vants. SECTION - DRIVER'S ,OBLIGATION. - The driver of any taxicab, who shall report from his location or stand to the central station or office of the owner that his cab is available for service, and , who shall. receive after such report an order or direction to call at any point within the limits of the City of South Bend to trans- port, then or within Twelve (12) hours thereafter, any passenger or passengers from said appointed place at said appointed time to any other point within the City of South Bend, shall forthwith, or at said appointed time, fill said order and transport said passenger or • passengers under penalty for violation of this ordinance and the possibility of his license being suspended or revoked in the manner as hereinbefore provided. SECTION ,9 s - OBLIGATIONS a LESSEE pRIVER. Whenever a taxi- cab is being operated by a driver upon an agreement with the owner whereby the said driver pays to the owner a fixed rental for the use of said taxicab the lessee driver of such taxicab shall be re- quired ( without abrogation or diminution of any requirement upon the part of the owner ) to comply in every respect with the owner' s duties and obligations under this ordinance relative to Bond and In- surance. - 12