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19-122 03/25/2019
CITY COUNCIL ACTION
Council Meeting Date: March 25, 2019
Item No: 19-122
Responsible Dept: Legal
Action Requested: Ordinance Map/Lot: N/A
Amending Chapter 278, Taxicabs and Livery Vehicles, Section 278-9, by Amending the Process by Which Wait
Time Is Charged
Summary
This ordinance amendment would amend the way taxicab companies may charge for wait time.
In Bangor, the primary charge for using a taxicab is based on distance traveled. If the cab is stopped for more
than two minutes, a wait time fee may be added. This ordinance amendment would allow the wait time fee to
be charged immediately whenever the taxicab is stopped, as opposed to after the two minutes have passed.
This would bring the Bangor ordinance into line with typical practice, in both Bangor and elsewhere.
The ordinance change would also change this wait time fee from $0.30 to $0.35 per minute. This would bring
this wait time fee into line with a separate wait time provision in the Code, which allows a charge of $0.35 per
minute ($21 per hour) that a passenger keeps a taxicab waiting. As amended, the charge would be $0.35 per
minute whether the wait time is spent at a red light, or after a passenger requests a taxi to wait for them.
Committee Action
Committee: Government Operations
Action: Approved
Staff Comments & Approvals
Meeting Date: March 18, 2019
For: 5
Against: 0
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City Manager City Solicitor Finance Director
Introduced for: First Reading
CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE
Date: March 25, 2019
Assigned to Councilor: Supica
19-122 03/25/2019
ORDINANCE, Amending Chapter 278, Taxicabs and Livery Vehicles, Section 278-9, by Amending the Process
by Which Wait Time Is Charged
WHEREAS, at present, a taxicab may only charge for wait time after two minutes have passed; and
WHEREAS, a typical practice in the taxicab industry is to charge for wait time whenever a taxicab is stopped;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR AS FOLLOWS, THAT
Chapter 278 of the Code of the City of Bangor is amended as follows:
§ 278-9 Taxicab rates of fare.
A. Fares to be collected from any taxicab passenger or passengers shall be no greater than that shown on
the taximeter, and no owner or driver shall charge rates to such passenger or passengers for taxicab
services within the limits of the City of Bangor greater than the following:
(1) For the first 1/6 of a mile or fraction thereof: $2.50.
(2) For each 1/6 of a mile or fraction thereafter: $0.35.
B. Provided, however, that in addition to the rates of fare permitted under Subsection A(1) and (2) above, a
fare of not more than $0.3835 per minute may be charged in the event that any taxicab is forced, by
reason of traffic conditions or other circumstances beyond the driver's control, to stop or travel at a speed
of less than 10 miles per hour
E. Waiting time. If the taxicab waits for the passenger after the taxicab has arrived at the place of origin, at
the expiration of five minutes after such taxicab has arrived or after being requested to wait by the
passenger, whichever comes sooner, the passenger may be charged not more than a maximum rate of
$21 per hour, or any such fraction thereof, as the actual waiting time bears to one hour. No charge shall
be made for waiting time in advance of the time at which the taxicab is required in the request for the
taxicab service, nor for the delay due to the inefficiency of the taxicab or its operation, nor for mileage or
time other than proceeding in the most direct way to the destination.
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