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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0888 ORDINANCE NO. 888 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION l3A OF ORDINANCE NO. 630 OF SAID CITY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION l. That Section l3A of Ordinance No. 630 of the City of Arcadia, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA PROVIDING FOR THE SUPERVISION AND REGU- LATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS FOR COMPENSATION UPON' THE PUBLIC STREETS AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION as amended THEREOF" adopted February l8, 1947,/be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 13A:. (a) No Owner operating any automobile for hire shall operate such automobile unless it is equipped with a taximeter of such type and 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 police officer of the City of Arcadia is authorized at his instance, or upon the complaint of any person, to investigate such taximeter, and upon the discovery of any inaccuracy of said taximeter to remove any such automobile equipped with such t~meter from the streets until said taximeter shall . have been correctly adjusted. (b) All automobiles 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 li@ltedand readily discernible by the passenger riding in such automobile. (c) No driver of an automobile for hire while carrying passengers shall display the flag attached to the taximeter in such a position as to denote that suCh automobile is not employed, . - 1 - ad PrE-' ~ INDEXED . . or throw the flag of the taximeter in a recording position when such automobile is not actually employed, or fail to throw the flag of such taximeter in a non-recording position at the termination of each and every service. (d) No operator of any automobile for hire, upon receiv- 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. (e) No person shall charge, collect, demand, receive or arrange for any compensation for service of any automobile for hire in this City, used for the conveyance of passengers, any amount, rate or compensation, greater than the charges or rates herein set forth: The maximum rates or fares to be charged the public by metered automobiles for hire operating over any street shall be, and the same are hereby fixed, as follows: The maximum rates of fare shall be Thirty-Five cents for the first one-quarter (1/4) mile or . fraction thereof; ten (lO) cents for each additional two-fifths (2/5) mile or fraction thereof; ten (lO) cents for each two minutes waiting time, twenty-five (25) cents for each additional passenger over one and a dismissal charge of One Dollar ($1.00) for each ten miles or fraction thereof outside and beyond the City limits of the City of Arcadia. . No rate shall be placed in effect, charged, demanded or collected for service of an automobi~ for hire until the City Council shall have approved and established said rate. The City Council shall have power, upon a hearing 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." . SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (l5) days from the passage thereof shall cause the same to be published once - 2 - o~ ff? ~ t in the Arcadia Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation, pub- lished 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 2nEi day of March ;1954, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to-wit: AYES: Councilmen Dow, Hulse, Kennett.!:.\'l' \(;',,',. ,- NOES: None . ABSENT: Councilmen Nottingham and Schmocker ~~d City Clerk of the City of Arcadia SIGNED AND APPROVED this 2ndday of March , 1954. . ATTEST: ~~~ City Clerk . . -3 - Cd yrtY