[Ord. No. 23 § 1, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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
termini.
The business of offering, to the public, vehicles for the
carrying or transportation of passengers upon other than fixed routes
for a charge or fee.
[Ord. No. 23 § 2, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
No person, firm, partnership or corporation or any owner, agent,
employee, or driver shall conduct a taxicab business or operate or
permit to be operated a taxicab or taxicabs within the corporate limits
of the Town of Carrollton, unless the proper license has been issued
to the owner thereof, the license tax therefor paid and all other
requirements complied with as provided by the terms of this Chapter
and unless said license is in force.
[Ord. No. 23 § 3, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Any person desiring to secure a license for a taxicab within
the Town shall first file application with the Town Clerk, giving
and setting forth such information as the Clerk shall request.
[Ord. No. 23 § 4, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Upon the filing of such application, properly made out, the
Clerk shall issue the license in the name of the applicant and turn
the same over to the Town Collector to be delivered to the applicant
when said applicant has complied with the other requirements provided
for by this Chapter and paid the license tax therefor.
[Ord. No. 23 § 5, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
All licenses issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall
be for the duration of one (1) year beginning on July 1st of the year
issued and terminating on June 30th of the following year.
[Ord. No. 23 § 6, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
No renewal license shall be issued unless the application is
made, all requirements met by the applicant as required of the applicant
in the issuance of the original license and the fee therefor paid
prior to the expiration of the old license.
[Ord. No. 23 § 7, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
No owner or operator of a taxicab or taxicab business may delegate
his/her license privilege to any lessee or deferred payment purchaser
of such taxicab or taxicab business. All licenses issued or granted
under this Chapter shall be non-assignable and non-transferable.
[Ord. No. 23 § 8, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Change of ownership or of title to any taxicab of the licensee
shall automatically revoke any license for the operation of such taxicab
by the purchaser.
[Ord. No. 23 § 9, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
No licensee shall operate more taxicabs or any taxicab other
than those included in the license unless and until application shall
have been made to the Clerk increasing the number of taxicabs to be
operated by the licensee. Such application for license to operate
additional taxicabs shall be made in the same manner and governed
by the same terms as for making application for an original license.
[Ord. No. 23 § 10, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Every person engaging in the taxicab business or in the operation
of a taxicab, as defined by the terms of this Chapter, shall pay therefor
a license tax as follows: thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for the first
taxicab used, the title to which is registered in the name of said
person; ten dollars ($10.00) for each additional taxicab used, the
title to which is registered in the name of said person; thirty-five
dollars ($35.00) on each taxicab licensed when the title of said taxicabs
is not in the name of the licensee; provided, however, that if any
license is granted after the first day of the seventh month of the
license year, the above fees shall be reduced proportionately. The
license tax herein provided does not include the regular Town automobile
license tax provided for elsewhere in another ordinance of the Town.[1]
[Ord. No. 23 § 11, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
If, at any time, the Council is of the opinion that any licensee
theretofore granted a license under the provisions of this Chapter
is engaged in any unlawful calling, or has violated any provision
of this Chapter or any other ordinance of the Town, State Law or Federal
Statute, or is conducting such business in such a manner as to constitute
a danger to public safety or a menace to the general welfare and well-being
of the Town, or that such licensee has become unqualified, unfitted,
or incapable of engaging in, operating or conducting a taxicab business,
then the Council may, after due hearing, revoke such license; provided,
however, no license shall be revoked by the Council until after the
holder of such license shall have received reasonable notice and been
afforded a hearing before the Council at which hearing the licensee
shall be permitted to appear in person and by attorney and to offer
such testimony in his/her behalf as may be relevant to the question
of the revocation of his/her license.
[Ord. No. 23 § 12, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
No license to engage in a taxicab business shall be issued to
the applicant therefor by the Town Clerk until and after such applicant
has filed with the Town Clerk, and the same has been approved by the
Town Attorney, a liability insurance policy or bond in some insurance
company or association or other insurer authorized to transact business
in the State, which liability insurance shall bind the obligers thereunder
to make compensation with respect to each taxicab operated by the
applicant in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00)
per person and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) per occurrence
for any accident in which a taxicab may be involved.
[Ord. No. 23 § 13, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Such insurance policy or bond shall at all times be in full
force and effect during the period of time for which such license
has been issued. If such insurance policy or bond required by the
provisions of this Chapter be cancelled or for any reason whatsoever
be not in force or effect during the period of time for which such
license has been issued, then the Council shall revoke such license
forthwith in a summary manner.
[Ord. No. 23 § 14, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Any licensee holding a license under the provisions of this
Chapter may substitute other taxicab or taxicabs in place of that
or those for which his/her license was granted, provided he/she make
application for such change to the Town Clerk setting out such information
as the Clerk may require. When any substitution is made under the
provisions hereof, the taxicab for which another was substituted shall
not thereafter be used by the licensee as a taxicab, unless and until
it shall be substituted for another taxicab under the provisions hereof.
[Ord. No. 23 § 15, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Every vehicle operating under this Chapter shall be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition and shall be periodically inspected
by the Chief of Police as in the opinion of the Chief of Police is
necessary.
[Ord. No. 23 § 16, 11-21-1961 (readopted 2-3-2003)]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall
be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and, upon conviction, shall
be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment
not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
