Amending Chapter 4, to revise provisions for licensing of taxicab companies, vehicles and drivers

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follow any person for the purpose of soliciting patronage passengers. All drivers must maintain a neat and clean appearance and observe reasonable standards of personal hygl~ene while on duty All drivers must keep the interior of their taxicabs reasonably free of body odors or odors from food or other items. All drivers shall wear shirts blouses or dresses with sleeves and hemmed slacks shorts skirts or dresses Ali drivers shall wear clean clothing without tears or holes. Shirts or blouses must completely cover the driver's waist. No driver shall wear sweat Hants. ~6,) Failure to comply with the requirements of this subsection may subject the driver to a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25 001 and not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00 issued by the Police Department or the Department of Code Enforcement, in addition to other penalties available under this section against the driver or holder. (s) Receipt and discharge of passengers. Drivers of taxicabs shall not receive or discharge passengers in the roadway, but shall pull up to the right-hand sidewalk as nearly as possible or, in the absence of a sidewalk, to the extreme right-hand side of the road, and there receive or discharge passengers, except upon one-way streets, where passengers maybe discharged at either the right- or left-hand sidewalk, or side of the roadway, in the absence of a sidewalk. (t) Refusal to convey orderly passengers prohibited. No driver of a taxicab shat l may refuse or neglect to convey any orderly person upon request anywhere in the City, unless previously engaged or unable or forbidden by the provisions of this section to do so, if such person agrees to pay the fare for the use of the taxicab. However the driver may comply with reasonable rules and policies of the taxicab companymade for the safety and comfort of drivers and passengers. (u) Additional passengers. A driver may permit persons other than the first person employing the taxicab to ride in ~~ the same taxicab, unless the first person sham refuses to permit additional persons. (v) Number afpassengers restricted; ~xcepti~n. No driver shal•1 may permit more persons to be carried in a taxicab as passengers than the rated seating capacity of his the taxicab as stated in the license for the vehicle. zcs (w) Unlawful acts. It shall be a violation of this artizle section for any driver of a taxicab to solicit business for any hotel, or to attempt to divert patronage from one hotel to another, or use his a vehicle for any purpose other than the transporting of passengers and/or parcels. (x) Deceiving passengers prohibited. No owner or driver of any taxicab shad may deceive, misinform or mislead any passenger, who may ride or desire to ride in such vehicle, as to his a destination or the priee rate to be charged 13