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ORDINANCE N0, 571
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND LICENSING THE OPEFiAT20N
OF TAXICABS UPOPd THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE CITY OF
LYNWOOD, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS
OF ORDINANCES IN CODIFLICT THEREWITH,
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ordain as
follows:
Section 1, DEFINITIONS..
(a) "Council" or "City Council" shall mean the City
Council of the City of Lynwood.
(b) "Cruising" means the driving of a taxicab on the
streets, alleys or public places of the City of Lynwood in search
of, or soliciting passengers for hire.
(c) "Driver" includes every person in charge of driving,
or operating any taxicab, either as agent, employee or otherwise.
(d) "Driver's License" means the permission granted by
the Traffic Authority to a person to drive a taxicab upon the streets
of the City of Lynwood.
(e) "Holder" means a person to whom a permit has been issued.
(f) "Manifest" means a daily record prepared by a taxicab
driver of all trips made by said driver showing time and place of
origin, destination, number of passengers, and the amount of fare
of each trip.
(g) '"Owner°. The term "Owner" shall mean every person
having the ownership, use or control of any taxicab who operates or
proposes to operate said .taxicab as a business within the City limits
of Lynwood.
(h) "Permit" shall mean the authority issued to an owner
authorizing him to operate or have operated_ a specific number of
taxicabs upon the public streets of the City of Lynwood.
(i) "Person" includes an individual, a corporation or other
legal entity, and any unincorporated association.
(,j) "Rate Card" means a card issued by the Traffic Authority
in each taxicab tiahich contains the rates of fare then in force.
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(k) "Taxicab" means a motor vehicle regularly engaged in
the business of carrying passengers and their baggage for hire, having
a seating capacity of less than six persona and~not operating on a
fixed route irrespective of whether or not the operations extend
beyond the boundary limits of said City.
(1) "Taximeter" means a meter instrument or device
attached to a taxicab which measures mechanically the distance
driven and the waiting time upon which the fare is based.
(m) "Traffic Authority" shall mean the Chief of Police
of the City of Lynwood. ,
(n) "Waiting Time" means the time vrhen a taxicab is not
in motion from the time of acceptance of a passenger or passengers
to the time of discharge, but does not include any time that the
taxicab is not in motion if due to any cause other than the request,
act or fault of a passenger or passengers.
Section 2. PER?-22 T. A?o person shall operate or permit a
taxicab owned or controlled by him to be operated as a vehicle for
hire upon the streets of the City of Lyni•.*ood without having first
obtained a permit from the City Council if it be an original appli-
cation, or from the Traffic Authority if it be an application for
the renewal of a permit.
Section 3. APPLICATION FOR PERMIT. An application for
a permit shall be filed with the City Clerk upon forma provided by
the City of Lynwood, containing such information as may be provided
by the rules and regulations of said Traffic Authority or the
Council pertinent to the operation of such taxicab business, and
the character and quality of the service thereof and said appli-
cation shall be verified under oath..
Section W. MINIMUM CONDITIONS FOR GRANTINCz OR ISSUING
PERMIT. D?o permit shall be issued under this ordinance unless
and until the following minimum conditions are complied with:
(a) The applicant has not been convicted of a felony or
of a crime involving moral turpitude, of reckless driving or driv-
ing while under the influence of intoxicating lio_uor.
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(b) The applicant is a citizen of the United States of
America, or one who has regularly declared his intention to become
a citizen, and must be more than twenty-one years of age.
(c) The applicant has complied zrith all the provisions of
this ordinance including satisfactory evidence that the minimum
requirements for liability insurance required by Section g hereof
have been met; provided that if the applicant produces evidence
satisfactory to the Council that the liability insurance required
by Section 9 hereof will be procured prior to the actual commence-
ment of operations, then and in that event, the permit may be issued,
conditioned upon becoming effective at such time ae the requirements
of Section 9 hereof is complied with.
Section 5. PUBLIC HEARING. Upon the filing of an original
application, the City Council shall fix a time and place for a public
hearing thereon. Notice of such hearing shall be given to the appli-
cant and to all persons to whom permits have heretofore been issued,
Due notice shall also be given to the general public by posting a
notice of such hearing in the lobby of the City Hall. Any interested
person may file atith the City Clerk a memorandum in support of or in
opposition to the issuance of a permit.
Section 6. PROCEDURE FOR INVESTIGATION OF APPLICANT.
Upon receipt of an original application for a permit, the City Clerk
shall refer the same to the Traffic Authority u~ho shall investigate
and report in otriting to the City Council before the time set by
said City for the hearing upon said application upon the following
matters:
(a) The public demand and need. for the additional taxicab
service.
(b) The financial resporxsibility.and experience of the
applicant.
(c) The character and fitness of the applicant.
(d) The adequacy of the existing service.
(e) The mechanical condition, the safety, the cleanliness
and appearance of the vehicle or vehicles and the equipment to be
used in the operations.
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Section 7,~ If the City Council finds that further taxi-
cab service in the City of Lynwood is required by the public conven-
ience and necessity and that the applicant is fit, willing and able
to perform such public service transportation and to conform to the
provisions of this ordinance and the rules promulgated by the Traffic
Authority, then the City Council shall issue a permit stating the
name and address of the applicant, the number of vehicles authorized
under said permit and the date of issuance; otherwise said permit
shall be denied,
Section 8. HOLDERS OF PERMITS PRIOR TO THIS ORDINAI~ICE,
The public convenience and necessity shall not be necessary for
granting the same number of permits held by the applicant under
the same name and color scheme on the date preceded by this ordi-
nance for the expiration of permits, and said permit shall be classi-
fied as a renewal, and said applicant shall be granted a permit
provided he complies with the provisions of Section 11 of this
ordinance pertaining to renewal of permits,
Section 9, LIABILI^1Y INSURANCE REC~UIRED, Holders shall
be required to file with the Council and thereafter keen in full
force and effect, a policy of insurance in such form as the Gouneil
may deem proper, executed by an insurance company approved by the
Council whereby the owner and the driver of each of the taxicabs
which the owner will operate are insured against liability for.
injury or death to-any person or injury or destruction of property
as the result of the ownership, operation or use thereof, the mini-
mum liability limits upon each vehicle so used being not less than
the following sums, i,e.:
For injury to any one person or the death of any person
in any one accident, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00),
For injury to two or more persons, or the death of two
or more persons in any one accident, Twenty thousand dollars (4"20,000,00),
For injury or destruction of property in any one accident,
Two thousand dollars 0 2,000.00),
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Provided, further, that the owner has filed an endorsement
of said insurance policy, with the City_Clerk, wherein it is provided
that the said insurance policy will not be canceled by the insurer,
or at the request of the insured, until the City, care of the City
Clerk, City Hall, Lynwood, California, shall have notice in writing
at least ten (10) days immediately prior to the time when such
cancellation shall become effective.
Section 10. LICENSE FEES. No permit shall be issued or
continued in operation unless the holder thereof has paid an annual
license fee of Fifty dollars 050.00). for the right to engage in the
taxicab business, and Five dollars 05.00) each year for each vehicle
operated under a permit. Said license fee shall be for the calendar
year and shall be in addition to any other license fees or charges
established by proper authority and applicable to said holder or the
vehicle or vehicles under his operation and control, provided that
the applicant for any permit under this Section shall be credited
on the permit fee with the pro-rated balance of any business license
fee paid by the applicant for the operation of ta.xicaba pursuant to
Ordinance No. X18, as amended
Section 11. TERMINATION AND RENEVdAL OF PERMITS.
All permits issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be
for a period not to exceed one year and all such permits shall
expire upon the last day of the current year, All street stand
permits shall remain in full force and effect until same shall be
canceled either on the request of the permittee or the person who
gave such written consent to use such stand by notifying the Traffic
Authority that such permission hae been withdrawn. If the Traffic
Authority has canceled a permit for a stand after having been noti-
fied that the consent to use the same has been withdrawn, it shall
not grant a permit For a stand so canceled for a period of six
months from date of cancallation, Provided that as to all. renewal
permits the provisions of Section 5 of this Ordinance shall not apply,
and unless the applicant has violated any of the provisions of this
ordinance, the laws of the State of California or of the United States
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of America, the violations of which reflect unfavorably on the
fitness of the holder to offer public transportation, the Traffic
Authority shall, upon the payment of the fees as herein provided,
issue a renewal permit for one year only; provided however that
in the event the renewal permit is denied the applicant shall have
the right of appeal to the Council as provided by Section 20 hereof.
Section 12. No permit may be sold, assigned, mortgaged
or otherwise transferred without the consent of the City Council.
Section 13. No female shall operate a taxicab for hire
upon the streets of the City of Lynwood between sundown and sunrise.
Section 14~. TAXICAB DRIVER'S LICENSE. No person ahal2
operate a taxicab for hire upon the streets of the City of Lynwood,
and no person who,owna or controls a taxicab shall permit it to be
so driven, and no taxicab licensed by the City of Lynwood shall be
so driven at any time for hire, unless the driver of saidtaxicab
shall have first obtained and shall have then in force a taxicab
driver's license issued under the provisions of this ordinance
Section 15. APPLICATION FOR DRIVER'S LICENSE. An appli-
cation for a taxicab driver's license shall be filed with the Traffic
Authority on forma provided by the City of LynUrood; and such appli-
cation shall be verified under oath and shall contain the following
information:
(a) The names and addressee of four residents of the
State of California who have known the applicant for a period of
two years and who will vouch for the sobriety, honesty, and general
good character of the applicant..
(b) The experience of the applicant in the transportation
of passengers.
{c) The educational background of the applicant.
(d) A concise history of his employment.
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Section 16. EXAPdINATION Or^ APPLICANT. CURREATT STATE
MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR'S PERhIT REQUIRED. Before any application
is finally passed upon by the Traffic Authority, the applicant shall
be required to pass a satisfactory examination as to hie knowledge
of the City and to show that he has a current chauffeur's license
issued by the State of California.
.Section 17. POLICE INVESTIGATION OF APPLICANT. TRAFFIC
AND POLICE RECORD. (a) The Traffic Authority shall conduct an in-
vestigation of each applicant for a taxicab driver's licence and a
report of such investigation and a copy of the traffic and police
record of the applicant, if any, aha.ll be attached to the application.
(b) Applicant must meet the minimum conditions specified
by the proviaiona of Subdivision (a) of Section ~ of this Ordinance
for owners of taxicabs.
Section 18. CODISIDERATIOIQ OF APPLICATION. The Traffic
Authority shall upon consideration of the application and the
reports and certificate required to be attached thereto shall
approve or re,~ect the application.
Section 19.. SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF PERP4ITS.
A permit issued under the proviaiona of this ordinance
may be revoked or suspended by the City Council if the holder thereof
has violated any of the provisions of this ordinance or the rules and
regulations of the Traffic Authority or the City Council, has violated
any ordinances of the City of Lynwood, or the laws of the United States
or the State of California, the violations of which reflect unfavorably
on the fitness of ,the holder to offer public transportation. .Before
suspension or revocation of such permit or said driver's license,
said holder or driver, as the case may be, shall be entitled to a
hearing before the City Council, and shall be notified thereof.
Notice of hearing on such suspension, or revocation,
shall be in rlriting, and shall be served at least ten (10) days
~~ prior to the date of the hearing thereon, such service to be upon
the holder of such permit, or its manager, or agent, and which
notice shall state the grounds of complaint against the holder of
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such permit and shall also state the time when, and the place where,
Such hearing will be held. In the event the holder of such permit
cannot be found, or service of such notice cannot be made upon it,
or him, in the manner herein provided, then a copy of such notice
shall be mailed, postage fully prepaid, addressed to such carrier
at its last known address, at least ten (10) days prior to the date
of such hearing.
Section 20. APPEALS FROM DENIAL OF APPLICATION FOR
DRIVERS' LICENSES, SUSPENSION OF PERMITS, OR SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION
OF LICENSES.
(a) within thirty (30) days after the rejection of an
application for a driver's license or the decision of the Traffie
Authority prescribing new or different rates for the use of taxi-
cabs., the applicant, permittee or licensee, as the case may be,
may file a written appeal with the City Clerk stating in detail
the reasons why the application for a driver's license should be
granted, or tirhy the suspension or revocation of the permit or
driver's license or why the decision of the Traffic Authority pre-
scribing new or different rat ea for the use of taxicabs should be
revoked, as the case may be, notwithstanding the action of the
Traffic Authority to the contrary.
(b) within 24 hours of the receipt of the written appeal,
~/ provided for by Section 20 (a) hereof, the City Clerk will advise the
Traffic Authority of said appeal, and, within the same period will fix
a date and time for the hearing of the appeal by the City Council
and notify the applicant, permittee or licensee, as the case may be,
and the Traffic Authority thereof by registered mail, which date
must not be more than ten (10) days from the date the appeal is filed
with the City Clerk.
(e) Upon receipt of notice that an appeal has been Piled
the Traffic Authority must furnish the City Council forthwith a
written report of the reasons for the rejection of the driver's
license; the filing of the written report of the Traffic Authority
based upon his investigation of the complaint that ;the rates being
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presently charged are excessive in accordance with Section 26 (a)
hereof shall be deemed sufficient compliance with this subdivision
insofar as an appeal ,from the decision of the Traffic Authority
fixing new or different rates is concerned.
(d) The City Council must deny the appeal and affirm the
decision of the Traffic Authority if it finds the applicant has
failed to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, or
the laws of the United States or of the State of California, the
violations of which reflect unfavorably on the fitness of the per-
mittee, or licensee, as the case may be, to offer public transportation.
{e) The decision of the City Council shall be final.
Section 21. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE. DURATION. ANNUAL FEE.
.Upon approval of an application for a taxicab driver's license the
Traffic Authority shall issue a license to the applicant which shall
bear the name, address, color, age, signature and photograph of the
applicant. Such license shall be in effect for the remainder of the
calendar year. A license for every calendar year thereafter shall
issue upon tke payment of Two Dollars 0 2.00) unless the license for
the preceding year has been revoked.
Section 22. DISPLAY OF LICENSE. Every driver licensed
under this ordinance shall poet his driver's license in such a place
as to be in full view of all passengers while such driver is operat-
ing a taxicab.
.Section 23. PERIODIC INSPECTIONS.
(a) Every vehicle operating under this ordinance shall be
periodically inspected by the Police Department at such intervals as
shall be established by the Traffic Authority to insure the continued
maintenance of safe operating conditions.
(b) VEHICLES MUST BE KEPT IN A CLEAN AND SANITARY CONDITION.
Every vehicle operating under this ordinance shall be kept in a clean
.and sanitary condition according to rules and regulations promulgated
by the Traffic Authority.
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Section 2~. DESIGNATION OF TAXICABS. Each taxicab shall
bear on the outside of each front or rear door, in painted letter
not less than two and one-quarter inches (2-1/4~~) in height, not j.esa
than $/16~~ stroke, the name of the owner; and, in addition, may bear
an identifying design approved by the Traffic Authority. No vehicle
covered by the terms of this ordinance shall be licensed whose color
scheme, identifying design, monogram, or insignia to be used thereon
shall, in the opinion of the Traffic Authority, conflict with or
imitate any color scheme, identifying design, monogram or insignia
used on a vehicle or vehicles already operating under the ordinance,
in such a manner as to be misleading or tend to deceive or defraud
the public; and provided further, that if, after a license has been
issued for a taxicab hereunder, the color scheme, identifying design,
monogram,\or~insignia thereof is changed ao as to be, in the opinion
of the Traffic Authority, in conflict with or imitate any color scheme,
identifying design, monogram, or insignia used by any other person,
owner or operator, in such a manner as to be misleading or tend to
deceive the public, the license of or certificate covering such taxi-
cab or taxicabs shall be suspended.
Section 25. TAXIPdETER REQUIRED. All taxicabs operated
under the, authority of this ordinance shall be equipped with taxi-
meters fastened in front of the passengers, visible to them at all
times day and night; and, after sun down, the face of the taximeter
shall be illuminated. Said taximeter shall be operated mechanically
by a mechanism of standard design and construction, driven either
from the transmission or from one of the front wheels by a flexible
and permanently attached driving mechanism, They shall be sealed at
all points and connections which, if manipulated, would affect their
correct reading and recording. Each taximeter shall have thereon a
flag to denote when the vehicle is employed and when it is not em-
ployed; and it shall be the duty of the driver to throw the flag of
such taximeter into a non-recording position at the termination of
each trip. The said taximeters shall be subject to inspection from
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time to time by the Department of Police. Any inspector or other
officer of said department is hereby authorized either on complaint
of any person or without such complaint, to inspect any meter and,
upon discovery of any inaccuracy therein, to notify the aerson
operating said taxicab to cease operation. Thereupon said taxicab
shall be kept off the highways until the taximeter is repaired and
Sn the required. working condition.
Section 26. RATES OF FARE. RATE CARD RERUIRED.
(a) The holder shall at all times keep on file taiith the
Traffic Authority a rate card showing the rates being presently charged
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for the use of all taxicabs authorized by his permit.
(b) Upon the filing of a complaint by or with the Traffic
Authority that the fares being presently charged. are excessive, said
Traffic Authority shall conduct an investigation, and if, in his
opinion based upon his investigation the whole schedule of rates, or
a single rate of fare, being charged are excessive, he shall withih.
his reasonable discretion prescribe new or different rat ea for the
use of said taxicabs. In determining said. rates he shall take into
consideration the following factors among others:
(1) The rates being presently charged by owners and
operators of taxicabs in cities and other political subdivisions of
a like area, population and general nature;
(2) VThat constitutes a fair and reasonable return to the
holder upon his capital investment.
(c) In arriving at the fair and reasonable return specified
°-' in Subdivision (b)(2) hereof, the Traffic Authority may call upon the
City Treasurer, the City Clerk and the City I+"tanager for such assistance
as he shall reauire.
(d) The Traffic Authority shall prepare a report based upon
his investigation and said report shall be appended to the new or
different rate schedule prepared by said Traffic Authority.
(e) In the event the holder shall appeal from the decision
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of the Traffic Authority as prescribed in Section~20 hereof, said
report shall become a part of the record on appeal, and shall be
deemed the findings oP said Traffic Authority upon U,~hich~his decision
is based.
(f) Said new or different rates as 'prescribed by the Traffic
Authority shall not become effective until after the expiration of the
time neceasa.ry to perfect an appeal to the City Council pursuant to
the terms of Section 20 hereof, and if an appeal be perfected the
decision of the Traffic Authority prescribing said new or different
rates shall be automatically stayed pending said appeal.
(g) The decision of the City Council shall be final.
(h) The Council shall have power upon a hearing upon its
own motion or upon complaint to investigate a single rate of fare
or the entire schedule or rates in effect, charged, demanded, collected
for taxicab services and to establish a new rate or schedule. of rates
in lieu thereof.
Nothing contained herein shall be construed to empoti~rer the
Council to approve or establish any rate or any schedule of rates
for taxicab services that will by means of rebate, discount, script
books, excursions, or commutation tick eta or in anywise violate the
minimum or maximum rate or provisions contained in this section or
any provision of law.
(i) Every taxicab operated under this ordinance shall have
a rate card setting forth the authorized rates of fare displayed in
such a place as to be in view of all passengers.
Section 27. RECEIPTS. The driver of any taxicab shall
upon demand by the passenger render to such passenger a receipt for
the amount charged, either by a mechanically printed receipt or by
a specially prepared receipt on which shall be the name of the owner,
license number or motor number, amount of meter reading or charges
and date of transaction.
Section 28. REFUSAL OF PASSENG~ TO PAY LEGAL FARE.
It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse to pay the legal fare
of any of the vehicles mentioned in this ordinance after having hired
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the same, and it shall be unlat~rful for any person to hire any vehicle
herein defined with intent to defraud the person from• whom it is
hired of the value of such service,
Section 29. CRUISING. No driver shall cruise in search
of passengers except in such areas and at such times as shall be
designated by the Traffic Authority. Such areas and times shall
onlyi•be designated when the Traffic Authority finds that taxicab
cruising would not congest traffic or be dangerous to pedestrians
and other vehicles,
Section 30. ADDITIONAL PASSENGERS. No driver shall permit
any other person to occupy or ride in said taxicab, unless the person
or persons first employing the taxicab shall consent to the accept-
ante of additional passenger or passengers.
Section 31. PROHIBITIONS OF DRIVERS. It shall be a
violation of this ordinance for any driver to engage in selling
intoxicating liquors, or solicit business for any house of 111 repute.
Section 32. STREET STANDS.
(1) Conditioned on the annual payment of Twenty-four Dollars
024,00) for each street stand, permits may be issued as provided in _
this ordinance to the owners of the vehicles, allowing any such
vehicles while awaiting employment to stand at certain designated
places upon the streets of the City; provided. that application is
made to .the Traffic Authority which shows the location of the proposed-
stand accompanied by a letter or letters of consent of the property
owners in front of whose property such stand shall occupy; provid.ed_
that a telephone for each such stand will be installed on the build-
ing or at the curb; provided that not more than one such stand will
be permitted in any one block and that such stand will not occupy more
than twenty-two (22) feet of parking apace.
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(2) [4hen such permit for street stand has been approved
by the Traffic Authority, the Traffic Authority is hereby authorized
to designate said zone by painting the curb white along such zone,
and painting in black letters thereon "NO PARKING - TAXI ONLY".
Such zones shall be used exclusively for waiting and loading zone
for taxicabs.
(3) It shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of any
of the vehicles herein defined, to leave such vehicles unattended
at the stand for a period of time longer than three (3) minutes.
(~) It shall be unlaV~ul for the owner, driver, or
other employee or agent of a taxicab to solicit patronage of per-
sons assembled at the scheduled stop of any common carrier, or at
intermediate points along any established route of such carrier, or
stand of another oVm er, when such persona have so assembled. for the
purpose of using the service of such common carrier or vehicle of
another owner. This shall not be construed to prohibit, or inter-
fere ti~Tith, response to any call for a taxicab made by telephone or
by signal from a pedestrian.
Section 33. TAXICAB SERVICE. All persons engaged in the
taxicab business in the City of Lynwood operating under the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall render an over-all service to the
public desiring to use taxicabs. Holders of permits shall maintain
a central place of business within the corporate limits of the City
of Lynwood and shall keep the same open between the hours of 7:30 a.m.
and 1:00 a. m, for the purpose of receiving calls, etc dispatching cabs.
They shall answer all calls received by them for services inside the
corporate limits of Lynwood as soon as they can do so and if said
services cannot be rendered within a reasonable time they shall then
notify the prospective passengers how long it will be before the said
call can be answered and give the reason therefor. Any holder who
shall refuse to accept a call anywhere in the corporate limits of
Lynwood at a.ny time when such holder has available cabs; or who shall
fail or refuse to give over-~11 service, shall be deemed a violator
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of this ordinance and the permit granted to such holder shall be
' revoked at the discretion of the Traffic Authority.
,Section 34~. .MANIFESTS. Every driver shall maintain a
daily manifest upon which are recorded all trips made each day,
showing time and place of origin a.nd destination of each trip and
amount of far e, and all such completed manifests shall be returned
to the owner by the driver at the conclusion of his tour of duty.
The forms for each manifest small be furnished to the driver by
the owner and shall be of a character approved by the Traffic
Authority.
Every holder of a permit shall retain and preserve all
drivers manifests in a safe place for at least the calendar year
next preceding the current calendar year, and said manifests shall
be available to the Traffic Authority.
Section 35. No vehicle as described in Section 1 of this
ordinance for which a permit shall have been issued shall be operated
by anyone but the owner thereof or an employee of the oorner, and it
shall be unlawful for the owner or any driver of any such vehicle to
enter into any contract, agreement or understanding between them-
selves by the terms of which such driver pays to, or for the account
of such owner a fixed or determinable sure for the use of such vehicle.
Section 36, It shall be unlawful for any taxicab to be
operated from any place in the City except a stand granted by the
City Council or Traffic Authority in accordance with the provisions
of this ordinance and/or Ordinance No, 493, as the same now reads
or as the same may be amended, or from a private or public garage
or parking space on private property.
Section 37. The holder shall use or operate continuously
the number of taxicabs authorized by his permit Por the purpose of
transporting individuals for hire upon trips originating within said
City of Lynwood.
Section 38. PERSONS NOT SUBJECT TO TERMS OF BUaINESS
LICENSE ORDINANCE. All persons wino shall come iJithin the purview
of and are subject to the terms of this ordinance shall be excepted
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from and not be subject to the terms of Ordinance No. 418 entitled
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE' CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR
LICEIQSING CERTAIN BUSINESSES, PROFESSIONS, TRADES, CALLINGS,
AND OCCUPATIONS IN SAID CITY, FIXING THE RATE OF LICENSE TAX UPON
THE SANE AArD PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF SAID LICENSE TAX AND
A PUNISHMENT FOR CARRYING ON, TRANSACTING OR CONDUCTING ANY SUCH
BUSINESSES, PROFESSIONS, TRADES, CALLINGS OR OCCUPATIONS WITHOUT
A LICENSE", or any amendments, substitutions or replacements thereof.
Section 39• VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES. .Any person, firm
or corporation violating any ,of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars
0$00.00) or imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of Lynwood or
the County Jail of Los Angeles County, State of California, for a
period of time not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Each such person, firm, or corporation shall be deemed
guilty of a separate offense for every day during any portion of
which violation of any provision of this ordinance is committed,
continued, or permitted_ by such person, firm or corporation, and.
shall be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance
Section ~0. ADOPTION PROCEDURE. The City Clerk shall
certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a weekly
newspaper published, printed, circulated in the City of Lynwood,
California.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 21st day of August, 1951, and finally adopted
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and ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held
on the ~kth day of September 1951, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN Bruner, Daetweiler, Moffitt,
Sneddon, Willard.
NOES: COUNCILMEN None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN None.
ATTEST:
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CITY CLE_RI CI'i LYNS+TOOD
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