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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• was issued. In case any license tag or tags be lost, the licensee shall forthwith, and before further use of said taxicab, procure another license tag or tags, as the case may be, from the City Controller, upon payment to him of the sum of One ($1.00) Dollar for each and every additional license tag so procured and exhibiting to him such license for proper endorsement of the fact of another tag being procured. All taxicab licenses shall be non-transferable. SECTION 16. - BASIS OF T1IRE-WAITING TIME. - The passenger, when engaging the taxicab, shall elect whether he will employ it by mile- age or on an hourly basis. No taxicab shall be let or hired upon a meter basis when the taximeter thereon is broken, out of order, or for any other reason does not accurately register the fare. Waiting time shall include the time during which the taxicab is not in motion at the request of the passenger only. No charge shall be made by the driver- for waiting time on account of traffic signals or traffic con- ditions or obstructing railroad trains, orfor time lost for inefficiency of the taxicab or its operator, or by reason of the fact that time is consumed by premature arrival in response to a call. SECTION 17. - go CHARGE IS k&DE. - When the charge is to be paid on the meter basis the taximeter shall begin at the place where the passenger is received and shall continue until he is delivered at his destination, excepting as hereinbefore provided. When the charge is to be paid on the hourly basis the time shall begin when the taxicab is ready at the place and time requested by the passenger, and shall continue until the passenger has been -discharged, provided that when any person shall enagage or hire a taxican equipped with a taximeter, unless otherwise agreed at the time of hiring, the fare for such taxi- . cab shall be determined and fixed by the taximeter; and provided further that no driver of any taxicab shall charge more for the use of said taxicab than is shown to be due by the taximeter thereon, except when the contract of carriage shall be on a time basis as aforesaid. SECTION„la. - RATES SHOWN.- There shall be affixed in each taxi- cab licensed, for the convenience and information of passengers, in such manner as to be easily read by any person riding therein, a - 8 -