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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-03-14 01-142 ORDINANCEItem No, 01-142 Dote: 03 - t" - 01 Item/Subject Ordin=e, Amending the Code of the City of Bangor, Chapter 278, Taxicabs,§278-1,§ 278-5, and adding new § 278-3.1. ResponsibleDepartment: City Clerk Commentary: The purpose of this amendment is to define "dispatch service" in recognition of the change In which taxicab companies are operated, and require dispatch services to protide the City with a list of their associated drivers, updated monthly. R also permits individualty-cwned taxicabs to advertise their dispatch service instead of the name of the license -holder. Manager's Comments: 71 �knJ /Mf%mm robykcafC�av� al�if e~&w F a//Oa/ O6W Department Head City Manager Finance Director Sty Sdicitor Passage :ZRr Reading Page _of Referral Raslgaed to Councilor Farman March 16, 2001 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) Ordinance, Amending the Code of the City of Burger, Chapter 278, Taxicabs, § 278-1, § 278.5, and adding new § 278-3.1. BB U arnWt ad by b*Cky ofd wR.Wow § 278-1. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms are to be deemed and constmed to have the meanings indicated in this section: CITY COUNCIL -- The City Council of the City of Bangor as established by Article 11 of the Charter of the City of Bangor. DISPATCH CENTER An hi r connotation that Provides discatching services to owners ofmx' ab licemes in the City ofB DRIVER --Any person who is engaged in the driving of Micah for hive. HOLDER -- The person, firm, association, partnership or corporation to whom or to which a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been granted. OWNER -- The parent, firra, association, partnership or corporation to whom or to which a taxicab license bas been issued. TAXICAB -- A motor vehicle used for the conveyance of passengers for hive, having a seating capacity of six passengers or fewer, including the driver, operated on call and demand, without fixed routes or teri the destirmfitu and more of which are under the control of the passenger or passengers being carried therein, the fares for which we at coma per mile or wait time, or both. TAXICAB LICENSE YEAR -- The period of none commencing on the firs[ day of lune of one year and expiring on the 31st day of May of the following year. TAXIMETER -- A mechanical instmment or device by which the fare far hire of the taxicab is mechanically measured and calculated and upon winch such fare is plainly and accurately indicated. 278-3.1. Disgsgxh Center List. EveryDispatch Center shall, on the that daw of each calendar month file with the Chief of Police a current list of all owners for whom the Distztch Center provides dispatching services § 278-5. Identification oftavcabs. A. Every taxicab shall have the time of the owner or the owner's Dispatch Center and the word "taxicab" or "taxi' or "cab" permanently placed on the exterior of one door on each side of the taxicab to letters at least 212 inches high. In lieu thereof, a logo or monogram containing the owners or the owner's Itisnatch Center's narne or trade name and the word "taxicab" or "tori" or "cab," being not less than eight inches in diameter, shall be permanently placed on one door on each side of the taxicab. E. Lights. In addition to the outside lights required by law, all taxicabs shall be equipped with an identifying light attached to the top of each taxicab. Such identity light shall be constructed in one unit consisting of an ilimnmated plate or cylinder upon which is primed the wank war "taxicab" or "taxi" or "cab" or the name of the owner or the owner's Dispatch Center. The overall dimensions of such identity fight shall not exceed eight inch= in height and 23 inches in length IN CITY COOaCiL March 14. 2001 First Readiag IN CITY COONCIL March 26, 2001 Motion for Passage Made and Secomed Vote: 8 yea. 1 absent Cooncilora voting yea: Naldacci. Crowley, Farnham. Farrington. Falmer. eohmsn, Tremble S vardamis Councilor Absent: elanchette Passed in CL (TITLE,) Am.m;n. cn. cme of cne nc. ai longer. Chapter 278, Taxicabs, 5 278-5. and adding sec 4 278-3.1 1 .1 OR