[R.O. 2012 § 615.010; Ord. No.
1048 § 1, 11-2-1998]
Unless it appears that a different meaning is intended, the
following words shall have the meanings given them by this Section:
Any individual or other legal entity, whether such entity
is a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, company, association
or joint-stock association, including the partners, officers, employees,
and agents of the person, as well as any trustees, assignees, receivers,
or personal representatives of the person.
Includes any street, alley, avenue, boulevard, court and
lane a public place in the City of Portageville.
Any motor vehicle performing a bona fide for hire taxicab
service having a capacity of not more than five (5) passengers, exclusive
of the driver, and not operated on a regular route or between fixed
terminal.
[R.O. 2012 § 615.020; Ord. No.
1048 § 2, 11-2-1998]
No person shall engage in the business of operating a taxicab
or a taxicabs upon the streets of the City of Portageville without
first obtaining a license to do so. All licenses issued under the
provisions of this Chapter shall be issued by the City Clerk. Provided
however, no license shall be issued by the City Clerk until the application
therefor has been approved by the Board of Aldermen and a license
fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) is paid and all other provisions of
this Chapter pertaining to the obtaining or issuing of said licenses
have been complied with.
[R.O. 2012 § 615.030; Ord. No.
1048 § 3, 11-2-1998]
A.
Application for a license to engage in the business of operating
a taxicab or taxicabs upon the streets of the City of Portageville
shall be filed with the City Clerk and referred to the Board of Aldermen
for consideration and action thereon. All applications for licenses
under the provisions of this Chapter shall be in writing, verified
by the affidavit of the applicant or, if the applicant be a corporation,
firm, association or partnership, by its duly authorized officers
or agents and shall state the following facts:
1.
The full name and address of the applicant; if a partnership,
the names and addresses of all the partners; if a corporation, firm
or association, the names and addresses of all the officers and directors
thereof.
2.
The name(s) and address(es) and the owner(s) of the vehicles
proposed to be operated.
3.
A statement of the previous experience the applicant has had;
or if the applicant is a partnership, the partners thereof have had;
or if the applicant is a corporation, firm or association, the officers
and directors have had in the taxicab business.
[R.O. 2012 § 615.040; Ord. No.
1048 § 4, 11-2-1998]
A.
Before a license can be issued, the applicant must file with the
City Clerk a certificate proving insurance coverage for each vehicle
to be used as a taxicab for injury to or death of persons in accidents
resulting from any cause of which the owner of the vehicle would be
liable on account of any liability imposed upon him/her by law regardless
of whether the taxicab was being driven by the owner, his/her agent
or lessee and against damage to the property of another, including
personal property under like circumstances, in the following sums:
1.
In the sum of at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
on account of injuries to or death of any one (1) person in any one
(1) accident;
2.
In the sum of at least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) on
account of injuries to or death of more than one (1) person in any
one (1) accident; or
3.
In the sum of at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
on account of damage to property in any one (1) accident.
B.
Every insurance policy required shall extend for a period covered
by the license supplied for and the insurer shall be obligated to
give not less than thirty (30) days' notice in writing to the
City Clerk before cancellation or termination thereof earlier than
its expiration date. The cancellation or termination of any such policy
shall automatically terminate and revoke the license issued to the
taxicab covered by such policy, unless another policy complying with
the provisions of this Section shall be provided and be in effect
at the same time of such cancellation or termination.
[R.O. 2012 § 615.050; Ord. No.
1048 § 5, 11-2-1998]
A.
Whenever it is shown to the Board of Aldermen that a licensee hereunder
has been guilty of a violation of the terms of this Chapter or in
any other traffic ordinance of the City of Portageville, the Board
of Aldermen may, upon its own motion or upon complaint of any person,
revoke or suspend for such time as deemed appropriate any license
granted herein for any or all of the following reasons:
1.
A license holder has knowingly, after written notice from the
City Clerk, failed to operate his/her business in accordance with
the provisions of this Chapter and any and all other ordinances and
State and Federal laws applicable to the taxicab business.
2.
A license holder has carried on a course of conduct which the
Board of Aldermen finds, after hearing, establishes a lack of good
character.
3.
Continued failure of any holder or employee of a license to
obey and abide by any and all rules of the traffic code of the City
of Portageville, Missouri.
4.
Prior to any suspension or revocation of a license issued hereunder,
the holder thereof shall be given notice of the proposed action to
be taken and shall have an opportunity to be heard before the Board
of Aldermen.
[R.O. 2012 § 615.060; Ord. No.
1048 § 6, 11-2-1998]
Every vehicle operating under this Chapter shall be kept clean
and sanitary according to the rules and regulations from which time
to time may be promulgated by the City Board of Aldermen. Vehicles
must bear the name of the person, firm or organization operating the
same.
[R.O. 2012 § 615.070; Ord. No.
1048 § 7, 11-2-1998]
No person shall operate a taxicab for hire upon the streets
of the City of Portageville, Missouri, and no person who owns or controls
a taxicab shall permit it to be so driven unless the driver of the
said taxicab shall have first obtained and shall have then and for
State of Missouri chauffeur's license.
