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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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ABSENT: Councilmen Nottingham and Schmocker
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City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 2ndday of
March
, 1954.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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