All taxicabs herein required to be licensed, used or operated for the carrying of passengers shall be automobile sedans with a minimum of three (3) doors. At least two (2) of said doors shall be for the exclusive use of the passengers.
All vehicles used as taxicabs shall be, at all times, clean and in good repair.
A. 
The total number of persons permitted in any taxicab at any one (1) time shall not exceed the number of persons for which permanent seating capacity is provided in the vehicle as originally designed.
B. 
No person other than the licensed driver, or a passenger for hire, of a taxicab, shall ride or sit in the compartment of the taxicab reserved for the driver thereof.
Every taxicab licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall have fastened in a conspicuous place therein a printed card showing the rates provided for in the approved application, in letters and figures of not less than one-half (1/2) inch in height. Such card shall bear the license number of such vehicle and the name of the owner thereof.
A. 
Each licensed taxicab shall be provided by the owner thereof with a holder for the license of the taxi driver, which holder shall permit such license to be freely inserted therein or removed therefrom.
B. 
The holder shall be securely attached to the rear of the front seat and shall permit a clear view of the taxi driver's license to passengers in the taxicab.
A. 
The charges for carrying passengers shall conform to the rates set forth in the schedule of fares filed with the application pursuant to § 272-6 of this chapter.
B. 
Such charges shall not be increased either during the license year or upon renewal of the license, unless and until an application for such increase shall have been submitted to the governing body not less than three (3) months prior to the proposed effective date of such increase and shall have been approved by the governing body. The application shall be accompanied by financial statements, balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash flow projections and such other evidence as shall be pertinent to the establishment of rates that will yield a fair and reasonable return; all in form satisfactory to the governing body and in accordance with standard accounting practice. The application shall be promptly acted upon by the governing body and in no event later than the proposed effective date of the increase. Only one (1) application for an increase shall be considered during any license year.
C. 
The charging of any fare or fares in excess of the approved rates referred to shall constitute a violation of this chapter by the owner or driver or both.
A. 
Taxi stands may be established in such places as the Council shall from time to time authorize. Such stands shall be designated by appropriate signs.
B. 
Taxi stands established and designated as provided by Subsection A shall be occupied only by licensed taxicabs and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as to the use of the public taxi stands as the Council from time to time may promulgate and establish. No vehicle other than one licensed hereunder and prepared to accept passengers on request, shall stand in any public taxi stand; provided that the location of such public taxi stand, together with a statement of the number of vehicles that may occupy said stand or the amount of space reserved therein is conspicuously displayed at the front end of such stand.
No taxicab shall be permitted to stand on any street other than at a taxi stand, except when the same shall be waiting to pick up or discharge a passenger. The driver of any such vehicle shall remain in or immediately outside such vehicle when the same is at any taxi stand, street or public place.
No person shall solicit customers for transportation in any taxicab in a noisy or offensive manner nor at any place other than the office of the taxicab owner or at a public taxi stand.
No driver of any taxicab which is disengaged shall refuse to carry any orderly person who tenders payment of the rate or fare permitted to be charged.
Upon the request,of any passenger, the driver of any taxicab shall give to such passenger a receipt for the fare paid.