§ 50-19. License required; application procedure.

(a)

No person shall regularly transport passengers to the City or engage in the business of operating taxicabs or other vehicles for transportation of persons for hire within the City without having a valid license from the City for each cab or vehicle operated. No person shall drive an unlicensed cab within the City for hire.

(b)

Application for the licensing of a taxicab business shall be filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer, together with a tendered license fee prorated on the basis of the annual license fee set forth in Subsection (d) of this section, should each remaining portion of the calendar license year be less than 11 months. The City Clerk-Treasurer shall present such application to the Common Council at its next regular meeting and the Common Council shall consider such application and shall instruct the City Clerk-Treasurer to issue the license or dismiss the application upon a majority vote of the Common Council.

(c)

No license for taxicab business based on new application therefor shall be issued except upon a showing that the available transportation facilities are not adequate to meet the public need and that the applicant is proper and able to furnish it.

(d)

The license for any cab shall expire on July 1 following its issue, and the fee for the privilege of engaging in the taxicab business and the licensing of one cab shall be an amount which is established by the Common Council and made available in the City Clerk-Treasurer's office for a year or any fraction thereof and an amount which is established by the Common Council for each additional cab licensed.

(Code 1991, § 7-7-1)