§ 32-21. Soliciting prohibited.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any driver or operator of any taxicab or for any other person to seek or solicit passengers for any such taxicab by word or by sign, directly or indirectly, while driving on any public street or public place of the city or while parked on any public street or alley of the city.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for any driver or operator to speak or call out in a loud manner the term "taxicab," "automobile for hire," "hack," "carriage," "bus," "baggage" or "hotel" or in any manner attempt to solicit passengers at any passenger depot or upon any passenger depot platform, grounds or premises of any railroad company, air terminal or bus station, or upon any city sidewalk or street.

(c)

It shall be unlawful for any driver or operator of any taxicab to respond to a call unless he is properly dispatched. A taxicab is properly dispatched when a customer or his designee requests service:

(1)

From a taxicab company and the company upon which such request is made directs one (1) of its taxicab drivers or operators to respond to such request; or

(2)

Of a taxicab driver or operator and such taxicab driver or operator contacts the taxicab company for which he works to advise the company that the taxicab driver or operator is responding to the request.

(Ord. No. 543-8, § 1, 7-22-13)