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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 3-Y%" � i? q -A AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF THAT CERTAIN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE REGU- LATING TAXICAB TRANSPORTATION, DEFINING TERMS, PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT, REQUIRING PERMIT AND INSPECTION, REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CON- VENIENCE AND NECESSITY, REQUIRING STATE CHAUFFEURtS LICENSE, SPECIFYING RATES AND FARES TO BE CHARGED, REQUIRING INSURANCE, REQUIRING SPECIFIED SIGNS ON TAXICABS, REQUIRING PAYMENT OF AD VALOREM TAXES, REGULATING LENGTH OF TIME DRIVER MAY DRIVE, REGU- LATING CRUISING AND CALLING, PROVIDING FOR TAXI METERS, PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION OF TAXI LICENSE, SPECIFYING PERMIT FEE, REQUIRING PASSENGERS TO PAY FARE, PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE," WHICH WAS PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 27, 1949; SAID SECTION 5 REQUIRING CHAUFFEURtS LICENSE ISSUED BY THE CITY, AND PROVIDING FOR RE- VOKING CHAUFFEURtS LICENSE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS: That Section 5 of an ordinance entitled: "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TAXICAB TRANSPORTATION, DEFINING TERMS, PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT REQUIR- ING PERMIT AND INSPECTION, REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC.CONVENIENCE.AND NECESSITY, REQUIRING STATE CHAUFFEURtS LICENSE, SPECIFYING RATES AND FARES TO BE CHARGED, REQUIRING INSURANCE, REQUIR- ING SPECIFIED SIGNS ON TAXICABS, REQUIRING PAYMENT OF AD VALOR04 TAXES, REGULATING LENGTH OF TIME DRIVER MAY DRIVE, REGULATING CRUISING. AND CALLING, PROVIDING FOR TAXI METERS, PROVIDING FOR REVOCA- TION OF TAXI LICENSE,.SPECIFYING PERMIT FEE, RE- QUIRING PASSENGERS TO PAY FARE, PROVIDING FOR PEN- ALTIES, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE," passed by the City Council on December 27, 1949, be, and the same is hereby amended so that said Section 5 of said ordinance shall read hereafter as follows: "Section 5: CHAUFFEURtS LICENSE. - (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or act as a chauffeur of a taxicab within the city, without having secured a chauffeurts license duly issued to said person by the Chief of Police. (2) Each and every applicant for a chauf- feurts license shall be a citizen of the United States, at least twenty-one years of age, a resi- dent of the city, and shall have operated a motor vehicle in and upon the streets of the city for at least two years prior to the filing of his ap- plication for a chauffeur's license. 6AA, .3 (3) Any person desiring to drive or act as chauffeur of a taxicab in the City shall file application for a chauffeur's license with the Chief of Police, of the City; at the Police Station in said City, on application forms to be furnished by the Chief of Police. Said forms shall provide for the applicant's name, age,.present address, last address, last place of employment; whether the applicant has been convicted of 'a violation of a motor vehicle traffic or criminal law of the City or the State of Texas, with a space sufficient for particulars concerning such violation, if any, and the length of time the -applicant has driven a motor vehicle. (4) -After filling in the above described form, the applicant shall sign same and shall. swear to the truthfulness of the answers made in said application before a notary public. After said application has been duly sworn to, the ap- plicant shall present said application to the Chief of Police at the Police Station, together with an affidavit from two reputable citizens of the City, stating the applicant to be a trust- worthy, sober and reliable person, of good moral character and that said applicant is competent to operate a taxicab, and said application shall also be accompanied by a certificate from a repo-. table physician of the City, showing -that said physician has examined said applicant and that said applicant is not -disabled by reason of defec- tive sight or hearing, and that said applicant is not crippled in any of his limbs and that he has no ailment which would prevent said applicant from safely operating a taxicab. (5) Upon receipt of any application for a chauffeur's license, the Chief of Police shall satisfy himself that said applicant is qualified to operate a taxicab in the City. Aftonand r'sd Chief of Police has examined the app affidavits and doctor's certificate accompanying said application and has investigated the appli- cant for his ability to properly operate a taxi- cab within the City, he shall either grant said application or refuse same. If said Chief of Police refuses any application, he shall immediate- ly notify in writing the applicant at the last address given in said application. The applicant may appeal from icetin writing tosion f thethe Ci.tyChief Council ice by giving notice within five days after the -post mark date of sat his application. In the event fetter denying a eats to the City Council for a licant, ppea7s l shall notify the appli- said app the City. application .liCensepthe date the hearing on his cation of will be heard, and shall hear the application a �licant for a chauffeur's llication and d 1 Council has heard the -app it shall. the City e in connection therewith, In the the ev1denuse or approve said application. roves the application, uracil app e rat the C tY lae .,Chief of police to ile-jessue a li- dLer st shall said aplicant. cense to 2. 0 1'! ( / _,: r Q._3_11911� (6) If the.application of a person is granted either by the Chief of Police or by the City Coun- cil, the Chief of Police shall immediately notify said applicant by letter in writing, addressed to said applicant at the last address shoi-m on the ap- plication. Within three days after the postmark date of said letter, said applicant shall furnish to the Chief of Police two recent, true photographs of said applicant, said photographs to be not less than 12" x121, nor greater than 2" x 211, in size, one of which photographs shall be retained by the Chief of Police with -the application, affidavits, doctor's certificate, and any other information in a file .to be kept by said Chief of Police as a per- manent record. The other picture shall be firmly affixed to the'license to be issued to said appli- cant. The license issued to said person shall be numbered, shall have near the'top of said license the words "City of Beaumont Chauffeur's License," and shall state the year for which said license is issued. Said license shall further state the name, address, age, height, weight and color of eyes and hair, and state that the party named on said li- cense., whose picture is shown on the face thereof, is a duly licensed driver of a motor vehicle in the City, and said license shall further provide a space for the signature of the said licensee, which sig- nature shall be affixed on said license in the pres- ence of the Chief of Police at the time said license is delivered to said licensee. All licenses shall be signed by the Chief of Police. (7) License shall be kept by the licensee under a celluloid cover and while said licensee is driving or acting as a chauffeur of a taxicab, said license shall be so displayed in the taxicab which he is driving so as to be easily seen by any and all pas- sengers in said vehicle. (8) It shall be a violation of this Section for any person holding a chauffeur's license hereunder to fail to have same displayed in the manner stated in Paragraph (7), above, at all times in the motor Vehicle which he is driving and which he is acting as chauffeur thereof. (9) All licenses issued by the Chief of Police under this Section shall expire on December 31st of the year in which same are issued. It shall be a violation of this Section to drive a taxicab with a chauffeur's license displayed which has expired. (10) Any chauffeur's license issued by the City under the terms of this Section may be either revoked or suspended by the Chief of Police for a violation of the ordinances of the City or the traffic laws of the State of Texas by the holder of said license, and said license may also be revoked or suspended if the holder thereof is negligent or careless in the opera- tion of a taxicab. Upon revoking or suspending any license the Chief of Police shall notify in writing the licensee whose license is revoked or suspended, and said Chief of Police shall immediately take up said license so revoked or suspended. Within five 3. days after revocation or suspension of the license, the party whose license has been revoked or suspend- ed may appeal to.the City Council for reinstate- ment. The City :-Council shall give the party so ap- pealing a hearing, and after a hearing, shall either sustain or reverse the actions of the Chief of Police in revoking or suspending said license. If the action of the Chief of Police is sustained by'the City Coun- cil, the revocation or suspension of said license shall stand. If the action of the Chief of Police is reversed, the license shall be returned to said li- censee immediately. (11) It shall be a violation of this Section for any person to employ or permit a person to drive a taxicab owned by such person, who does not have a Valid and subsisting chauffeurts license issued by the Chief of Police for the current year, and said person operating a taxicab, upon employing any driver of such a vehicle shall require said driver to produce a chauffeurts license issued by the City for the current year. Upon employing a driver for a taxicab the person owning such vehicle or the agent thereof so employing, shall immediately notify the Chief of Police of the name of said driver and the license number of the license which said driver holds. If a driver of a taxicab is discharged by a person owning such vehicle, or is discharged by an agent of such person, such person shall immediately notify in writing the Chief of Police of the dismissal of said driver and shall state the reason for said discharge. Upon receipt of a notice of the discharge of the driver of the taxicab, the Chief of Police shall investigate the reasons for such dismissal, and after completing said investigation may, if he deems it advisable, revoke or suspend the license of the driver so dismissed. Said licensee may appeal from the action of the Chief of Police to the City Coun- cil who shall either sustain or reverse the action of the Chief of Police, (12) It shall be a violation of this Section for any person owning one or more taxicabs to keep in his employment for the driving of such vehicle, any person whose license issued by the City has been either revoked or suspended. (13) A licensee may renew his license upon ex- piration thereof by filing with the Chief of Police an application for renewal upon forms to be furnished by said Chief of Police, and shall furnish two recent photographs of himself of the dimensions heretofore set out in Paragraph (6), and shall furnish a certi- ficate from a physician of the City showing that he is physically capable to safely operate a motor vehi- cle for hire. (14) No fee shall be charged for the issuance of any chauffeurts license or a renewal thereof by the City." PASSED by the City Council this ,I day A. D. 1953. of — , - Mayor - 4.