[Amended 2-25-1991 by Ord. No. 535]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section:
The person in whose name the taxicab vehicle is registered
with the State Motor Vehicle Administration, or a person who has a
written agreement with the registered owner of the vehicle providing
for the use of said vehicle as a taxicab for the person's benefit.
Includes any motor vehicle for hire designated to carry seven
persons or less, including the driver, operated upon any street in
the City or on call or demand accepting or soliciting passengers indiscriminately
for transportation for hire between such points along the streets
in the City, as may be directed by the passenger or passengers so
being transported, provided that nothing in this section shall be
construed to include as a taxicab any motor vehicle used as a hearse
or ambulance or a motor vehicle operated, with the approval of the
Public Service Commission of Maryland, on fixed routes and schedules.
No person shall engage in the business of operating
a taxicab upon the streets of the City without having first obtained
a license therefor for each of such taxicabs as provided in this chapter,
and each taxicab driver shall obtain a license as provided in this
chapter.
A taxicab having no Westminster City license
may bring passengers into the City but may not pick up any passenger
or accept any business within the City for any destination within
the City or any destination outside the City.
