§ 18-324. Schedule.

(a)

No person owning or operating any vehicle used as a taxicab within the limits of the city shall charge or collect more than the rates duly established by the procedures set forth herein.

(b)

The operator of the taxicab shall establish rates of fare according to a mileage rate as measured by the taximeter, an hourly rate or a flat rate. The rates of fare established by an operator shall be effective only after:

(1)

The rates of fare and proof of legal publication have been sent to, and noted as received by, the city controller; and

(2)

Thirty days after legal publication of such first scheduled rates or such change of scheduled rates in at least two newspapers circulating in the city.

(c)

If a taxicab is hired on an hourly rate for driving within the city, the taxicab operator shall compute charges for waiting time based on a fraction thereof of the hourly rate. Waiting time shall include the time when the taxicab is not in motion, beginning at its arrival at the place to which it has been called for the time consumed while standing at the direction of the passenger, but no charge shall be made for time lost because of the inefficiency of the taxicab or its driver or time consumed by the premature response to a call.

(d)

The charge in subsection (c) of this section shall be for one or more persons. No taxicab shall be let or hired upon a meter basis when the taximeter does not accurately register the fare.

(Code 1968, tit. 500, § 6; Code 1985, § 119.45; Ord. No. 937, 3-18-1946; Ord. No. 2072, 8-15-1977; Ord. No. 2296, 7-16-1979; Ord. No. 2434, 3-16-1981; Ord. No. 2870, 4-7-1986; Ord. No. 3068, 7-20-1987; Ord. No. 4394, 5-17-1999)