[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Warwick
during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Article II. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 135.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes a public carriage, cab, hack, automobile or other vehicle
for the transportation of persons for hire, except a vehicle duly licensed
and operating under and pursuant to the Transportation Corporations Law of
the State of New York.
A.
No taxicab shall be used to pick up a person or persons
in the Village of Warwick or convey a person or persons from a point within
the Village of Warwick to a destination either within or without the Village,
nor be used for the purpose of soliciting passengers within the village, unless
said taxicab is first licensed as herein provided.
B.
The owner of such taxicab shall apply to the Board of
Trustees for the issuance of a license, upon such form as may be prescribed
by said Board. Such license shall be issued only upon proof that the taxicab
complies with all laws, requirements and regulations of the State of New York
pertaining to the registration, equipment and operation thereof, and shall
be revocable for noncompliance with such laws, requirements and regulations
or upon the failure of the owner or operator thereof to comply with the provisions
of this chapter.
C.
The annual license fee for each taxicab shall be the
sum of $25 and said license shall expire on May 31 of each year.
[Amended 4-10-1989 by L.L. No. 7-1989]
D.
No taxicab shall park for the purpose of solicitation
of fares by its operator or driver upon any street of the village, except
in a designated stand or upon the operator's own property. This section
shall not prohibit the discharge or picking-up of passengers on any street
pursuant to a previously made arrangement or call. No operator, driver or
other person in behalf of the operator, either directly or indirectly, shall
solicit fares at a greater distance than five feet from his parked taxicab.
[Added 8-10-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
E.
Taxicabs may remain at taxi stands while waiting for
employment and only in single file and not more than one taxi from one company,
to the exclusion of other taxicabs, pointed in accordance with the traffic
regulations. No taxicab standing at the head of any such line shall refuse
to carry any orderly person applying for a taxicab who agrees to pay the proper
rate of fare, but this shall not prevent any person from selecting any taxicab
he may desire on the stand whether it be at the head of the line or not. As
the taxicabs leave the line with passengers, those behind shall move up, and
any taxicab seeking a place on the stand shall approach the same only from
the rear of the stand and shall stop as near as possible to the last taxicab
on the stand.
[Added 8-10-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
A.
No person driving or operating a taxicab shall pick up
a person or persons in the Village of Warwick or convey a person or persons
from a point within the Village of Warwick to a destination either within
or without the Village, nor solicit passengers within the Village, unless
he shall first procure from the Board of Trustees of the Village a license
for the operation thereof. At the time of filing the license application,
a fee of $25 per person shall be paid to the Village Clerk to cover the cost
of investigation of the facts stated therein.
[Amended 4-10-1989 by L.L. No. 7-1989]
B.
No such license shall be granted unless the Board of
Trustees shall determine that the applicant is duly licensed by the State
of New York to operate a motor vehicle for hire, that he is of good moral
character and that he is a fit and proper person to operate a taxicab, and
that the issuance of a license would not be detrimental to the public interest.
C.
Such license shall be revocable by the Board of Trustees
at any time upon proof that the operator is not properly licensed by the State
of New York, that he is not of good moral character or a fit and proper person
to operate a taxicab, that the operation thereof is detrimental to public
interest, or that said operator is violating any of the provisions of this
chapter.
D.
The license to operate a taxicab issued pursuant to this
section shall expire on May 31 of each year.
E.
The license fee for such operator shall be as set forth in Chapter 63, Fees.
[Amended 4-10-1989 by L.L. No. 7-1989]
F.
The owner of a taxicab shall not permit the operation
thereof by an unlicensed driver in violation of the terms of this chapter.
No license issued pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed to be in
effect until the fee hereinbefore prescribed shall have been paid to the Village
Clerk and his receipt endorsed thereon. There shall be annexed to each driver's
and operator's license prior to its issuance a photograph of the licensee,
two inches in length and two inches in width. Each operator of a taxicab shall,
during the time he operates the same, have his license posted in a conspicuous
place therein.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or
by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this
chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and distinct offense hereunder.
