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44 of 1931 - Substitute Bill No. 47 of 1922, governing and regulating taxi-cabs and licenses be filed. ROLL CALL Salt Lake City,Utah, Fe.b• 4 ,193 2 VOTING AYE NAY Finch Keyser I move that Bill :44 substitute for Knight Bill No. 47 of 1922, ffoverning and regulating Lake taxi-cabs and licenses, be filed. Mr.Chairman - • - Result • 7 Commissioner of arks ?c Public Property 1912 Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,Utah. 1.t.taa....... City Recor.,r Mayor ROLL CALL VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City,Utah, Jan. 13 ,1932 Finch Keyser V I move that Bill #44 for an ordinance 1,/v Knight amending Sectios 2 and 11 of the Taxicab ordinance, Lake be taken under consideration. Mr.Chairman - - - Result Pais Commissioner of Par,.s & Public Property Passed by the Board of Comm aioners laf rah Lake City,Uta N :/;j"'19 32 1-‘t City Recor er Mayor 97 ROLL CALL Salt Lake City,Utah, Dee. 5 , 193...}. VOTING AYE NAY I move that the ordinance be passed. Burton Fehr Finch Lake Mr.Chairman AN ORDINANCE Result AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2 and 11 of an ordinance designated bill No. 47 of 1922, passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 15th day of November, 1922, and add- ing to said ordinance a new section to be imown as Section 10X, regu- lating and licensing the use of taxicabs and other public passenger vehicles. Pe it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION I. That Section 2 of an ordinance designated bill No. 47 of 1922, passed by the 'Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 15th day of November, 1922, regulating and licensing the use of taxicabs and other public passenger vehicles, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. DRIVING i'UBLIC VaHICLES hI'TFiCUT A LICLNSE PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful for any owner or person in wil charge of any carriage, omnibus, taxicab, or other public passenger vehicle to drive or operate the same upon any of the r.eet. v ,,gea.mit th,e,.sme any of the streets of Salt Lake City unless he has complied with the provisions of Section 17,37 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1.920. And no license shall be issued, continued in force or effect nor be operative unless and until the licensee shall maize- tain in full force and effect and on file with the Chief of Police a surety bond or bonds roved by the Toard of Commissioners I in the aggregate sum of r•]0,000.00 running to and in favor of ii the heirs, representatives and/or assigns of any person killed li and. to any person :injured in person or property conditioned that the licensee will compensate any such heirs, renresenta- 1 tives and/or assi�tns and nersons and will ;ay any judgment re- covered against the licensee, his agents, servants or employee ij as the result of his or their negligence arising from or growing out of the operation, use, maintenance and/or control of the licensed vehicle; said bond or bonds to be at all times maintain- ad in the aggregate sum of $10,000.00, and in the event the 11 said aggregate sum shall at any time be reduced by judgment, payment or otherwise to be less thah S10,000.00, the licensee shall immediately restore said bond or bonds to said aggregate sum and upon his failure so to do his license shall be void. SECTION 2. That bill. No. 47 of lckk adoreseid be amended Ilby adding in and to said ordinance a new section to be known as i 'ection 10X, which shall rear, as follows: SECTION 10X. REGISTERING DISTINCTIVE COLOR OR DESIGN, DISPLAYING NAME AND LICENSE NUMBER AND KFDPING RECORDS. In ad- dition to the displaying of the license card of the vehicle, as provided in Section 10, the licensee shall also display on both sides of the outside of the licensed vehicle a plate six Ij inches in diameter,which shall bear the license number of the vehicle and the name of the licensee. The design of such plates shall be selected by the Chief of Police and shall be changed annually and the cost thereof shall be paid by the licensee. i4 Every vehicle licensed under the provisions of this ordinance shall have the name of the owner only thereof plainlyi tainted in letters at least two inches in length in the center hf outside of the main Hanel of the/rear noorsof said vehicle. Any licensee now using a distinctive,color or design for his licensed vehicle or vehicles or who may hereafter select fj a distinctive color or design not in conflict with one already in use may register such color or design with the Chief of Police and no license shall be issued for any vehicle having ,i such registered color or design to any person other than the a registered licensee. !i Every licensee shall keep or cause to be kept a IJ complete record of each and every trip made by his licensed vehicle, containing particulars of the time and point where the passenger embarks, the point where he disembarks, the name of the operator of the vehicle and such other earticulars !i as the Board of Commissioners may require. SECTION 3. That Section 11 of said bill No. 47 of 1922, aforesaid, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follow^: SECTION 11. FARES AND RATES. A mile as used in II this chapter, shall mean seven ordinary city blocks of 660 feet jeach, or fourteen ordinary city blocks of 730 feet each, in cluding streets. '€ Every passenger upon any licensed passenger vehicle shall be allowed to have conveyed upon such vehicle, without charge therefor, ordinary hand baggage. li It shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of any licensed passenger vehicle conveying pas en-gers with or withou II baggage, for hire, within Salt Lake City, to demand, collect y it or receive a higher rate of fare for such service than is hereC- 11 �! inafter provided. 1. Sight-seeing automobiles, accommodating ten 11 or more passengers, shall not charge more than 4.00 per Passep- I ' 1 ger per trip, and each trip shall not be less than two hours' duration, and shall follow the route as advertised by the owner it or driver of such automobile. 2. Passenger vehicles other than sight-seeing cars: it (a) Ior the first one-half mile, or any free-, tion thereof, •225 It v For the second one-half mile, or --- - j -4- any fraction thereof a .15 And for each additional one-third mile, or any fraction thereof. . . . .10 (b) For waiting, every three min- ;, i; ✓ utes er-Traction thereof .10 (c) For carrying baggage, valis— i es, or suit cases other than ordinary hand baggage ok not more than three suit- 1 cases or hand grips, each 20 (d.) For carrying each small trunk accompanyinga passenger . . . .50 (e) No charge shall be made for carry, ing children under five years of age. For carry- ing children between five and fifteen years of age, not exceeding one-half the amount specified shall be charged. In all cases where charge is made by the mile the charge shall be based upon the distance travelled by the vehicle from the point to which it has been called until the conclusion of such engagement. The route to be taken by said vehicle shall be the short- est one possible. Waiting time shall include the time when the taxi- cab is not in motion, beginning with the arrival at the place to which it has been called, or the tine consumed while standing at the direction of the ,passenger, but no charge shall be made for time lost for inefficiency of thn taxicab or its operator or time consumed by premature re- ! sponse to call. The above charges shall be for one person ii or more. The charges herein set forth shall be binding upon the owners and chauffeurs of such cabs, and any collection of fares deviating from said rates shall be punished as provided in this ordinance. -5- No zone or flat rates shall be charged. Whenever the service rendered by any vehicle licensed Under the provisions of this ordinance shall be measured by a taximeter the foregoing rates shall be for two passengers or 13 less and not more than twenty-five cents (25 ) may he charged for the entire trip for each addritiona.l passenger. ,Except as hereinafter provided and excepting sight-seeing automobiles accommodating ten or more passengers it shall be unlawful for any person to own or operate any licensed passen- a ! ii ger vehicle for hire within the city of Salt Lake unless said • vehicle is equipped with a standard fare register device or taximeter in good and workable condition to mechanically measure the distance traveled, to record the time said vehicle. is in waiting and upon which record there shall be indicated by means of figures or designs the fare to be charged. It shall be the duty of every person owning or operating an automobile, taxicab or other vehicle, as in this section del scribed, to keep the taximeter thereon in a good and workable condition, and at the beginning of every employment to set sai li taximeter in the usual way so that it will register and comput on a mileage basis, while said vehicle is running and a time basis while waiting and while the service is being rendered th fare to be charged.. And such taximeter shall be so placed that the face thereof, where the face is registered, will he pl.ainif visible to passengers, within said vehicle. No license shall be issued to a vehicle for hire until the taximeter attached thereto shall have been inspected and found] to be accurate. No person shall use or permit to be used upon any taxicab a taximeter which shall be in such a condition as to be over 5 per cent incorrect to the prejudice of any passenger. ✓i No taximeter affixed to a vehicle propelled by steam, gasoline, electricity, or other motor power, shall be operated from any wheel to which the power is applied. i, -0- 1 il After sundown the face of every taximeter shall be illu- minated by a suitable light, so arranged as to throw a continuL ous, steady light thereon. No person shall use or permit to be used, or drive for hire, a vehicle equinred with a taximeter the case of which is unsealed and not having its cover and gear intact. ,f.- No driver of a vehicle equi,;:oed with a taximeter or other similar device while carrying passengers or under emeloyment if shall display the signal affixed to such taximeter or other similar devise in such position as to denote such vehicle is npt I employed, or in such position as to denote that he is em,l oyedl II! at a rate of fare different from that to which he is.entitled I is is under the provisions of this article. j ill No person shall drive a vehicle for hire to which is at- 1 tached a taximeter that has not been duly inspected and annrov d. I !j No driver or operator of any vehicle shall permit any pert i 1p son to ride thereon or therein, without the consent of the owner thereof, wheh the flag is up or toward a vertical posi- 1 tion, and no person shall tamper with, break or mutilate any I taximeter, with the intention of causing the same to register A improperly or incorrectly or inaccurately. Provided, however, that livery service may be rendered with i licensed passenger vehicles for hire without having said vehi-1 I Iles equipped with taximeters and without having; the name of 1 i! q the owner thereof painted on the outside of said vehicles and q without having displayed on the outside of said vehicles the license number herein provided for. A vehicle engaged in livery ii service shall not be used in any other service, and shall be i j operated for trips entirely within the limits of Salt Lake Citt on an hourly basis, no trip to he less than one-galf hour in duration and to and from points outside the limits of Salt Lake City upon either the aforesaid mileage basis or upon the hourly basis to be definitely specified by the operator and agreed upon by the passenger at the time said vehicle is engaged. 11111 -' ;i 11 -7- 1111 + I 1j The rate per hour shall not exceed $4.00. The rate for wait- I 1 ing exceeding ten minutes at any one time shall be on the basilp 1 of $2.50 per hour and the mileage rate shall be as heretofore specified. No owner or operator of a vehicle engaged in liver 1 ! service shall permit the same to be or remain upon the streets I I of said city except when said vehicle is engaged in carrying 1 a passenger,or passengers, or in going to or returning from c such :engagement. i yviolating any of 3th,e prow lions of SECTION 4 Ari J ?�ersoh violat�i ;this ordinance shell upon conviction thereof be punished" •a fine', in any spa not. exe:esdiag $299.00, orl.by imprisonment in th'elCity 1 Jail for.a pooiod"not longer, than six: months, or by both sph:: fine and imprisonment y, SECTION 5 Ire the opinion of the Board 'f Commie iohers, it is necessary to the peace, health arid safety of the inhabitants I lof said city that this ordinance become effective immediately. SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first i (publication. ' 1 Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, ii Otah, this �__-- day of -, 193___. ti 11 11 1 II n n rfl<<or. I I _T. ecorder. , 1 ii a 11 I 'i / . 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