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ORDINANCE'NO. 937
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF: ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA;
AMENDING SECTION l3A OF ORDINANCE
NO. 630 OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA.
THE CITY COUNCIL'. OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA; CALIFORNIA;
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 630 of the City of
Arcadia, adopted February 18, 1947, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA; PROVIDING FOR 'THE SUPERVISION AND REGULATION OF
THE TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS FOR COMPENSATION UPON THE PUBLIC
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STREETS AND PRESCRmING P~ALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF", is
hereby amended by amending Section l3A thereof to read as follows:
"SECTION l3A. (a) No owner operating any automobile
for hire shall operate such automobile unless it is equipped with a
taximeter of such type an~ design as may be approved by the City
Council. Every owner using any taximeter ,shall at all times keep
such meter accurate. Such meter shall be subJect to inspection
from time to time. Any pqlice officer of the City of Arcadia is
authorized at his instance, or upon the complaint of any person,
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to investigate such taximeter, and upon the discovery of anY inac-
curacy of said taximeter tO,remove any such automobile equipped,
with such taximeter from the streets until said taximeter shall
have been correctly adJusted.
(b) All automopiles for hire must base their charges on
taximeters, and all taximeters shall be placed so that the reading
dial showing the amount to be charged shall be well lighted and
readily discernible,by 'the passeriger ridihg in such automobile.
(c)
No driver :of 'an' automobile for hire while carrying
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passengers shal~ display ithe flag attached, to the taximeter in
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such a position as to denote that such automobile is not employed,
or throw the flag of the ,taximeter in a 'recording position when
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such automobile is not actually employed, or fail to throw the
flag of such taximeter in a non-recording position at the termina-
tion of each and ~very service.
(d)
No operator of any automobile for hire, upon receiv-
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ing payment of a fare as indicated by the taximeter thereon shall
refuse to give. a receipt upon, the request of any passenger making
said payment.
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(e)
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The ,City Council ,of the City of Arcadia may from
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time to time by resolution fix and establish the maximUm rates or
fares to be charged the public by metered 'automobiles for hire
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operating over any street :in. the City of Arcadia. No person shall
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charge, collect, demand, ~eceive or arrange for any rate, fare or
compensation for service of any automobile for hire in the City of
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Arcadia used for the conveyance of passengers greater than the
rates or fares thus fixed 'and established by said City Council.
(f)
The City Council shall have power, upon a hearing
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upon its own motion or upon complaint, to investigate a single
rate or fare, or the entire schedule of rates in effect and to
establish a new rate or schedule ,of rates in lieu thereof."
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SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
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of this Ordinance and prior to th~ expiration, of fifteen (15) days
from the passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once
in the Arcadia Bulletin; a newspaper of general circulation pub-
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Ii shed and circulated in the City of Arcadia.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia,
held on the 20th day of December , 1955, by the affirmative vote
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of at least three CounCilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Camphouse, Dennis, Dow, Hulse and Phillips
NOES: None
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~ Deputy City Clerk 01' the City 01' Arcadia
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· ~. SIGNED AND APPROVED this 20th day of' Decemb r " 1955.
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ABSENT: None
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Deputy, City Clerk
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