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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE OPERATION OF TAXICABS WITHIN THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, REQUIRING TAXICAB EQUIPMENT TO BE IN SAFE MECHANICAL OPERATING CONDITION; PROVIDING FOR A QUARTERLY INSPECTION OF SAID TAXICAB EQUIPMENT; PROVIDING A FEE FOR SAID INSPECTION; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
SECTION 1: Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to drive or operate any taxicab within the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas unless said taxicab is in good and safe operating condition and is equipped with proper brakes, lights, tires, horn, muffler, rear vision mirror, and windshield wipers, all in good repair, and unless said taxicab is in a clean and sanitary condition.
SECTION 2: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate any taxicab unless there is displayed upon said taxi in a conspicuous place in the lower right hand corner of the front windshield a sticker certifying that said taxicab has been duly inspected by the City of Jonesboro, and that same is in safe operating condition and that all of the above listed equipment is in good repair.
SECTION 3: Each Taxicab operated within the City of Jonesboro must be inspected quarterly, as herein provided, the first quarter being from Jonesboro 1 thru March 31; the second quarter from April 1 thru June 30; the third quarter from July 1 thru September 30; and the fourth quarter from October 1 thru December 31. The inspection certificate stickers as hereinabove required shall be of the following colors; first quarter red, second quarter blue, third quarter black, and the fourth quarterly sticker shall be green.
SECTION 4: Within fifteen days from the passage and adoption of this ordinance the operator of each such taxicab shall be required to deliver each such taxicab so operated to the City Mechanic at the City Garage and allow same to remain there until it can be thoroughly inspected, and the City Mechanic is hereby required to thoroughly inspect said taxicab, including driving of same, and if found to comply with the provisions of this ordinance shall certify that said taxicab is in good and safe operating condition; that same is equipped with proper brakes, lights, tires, horn, muffler, rear view mirror, and windshield wiper; and that all of same are in good repair and each such taxicab shall thereafter be inspected on a quarterly basis form January 1 thru January 15 for the first quarter of each year; from April 1 thru April 15 for the second quarter of each year; and from July 1 thru July 15 for the third quarter; and from October 1 thru October 15 for the fourth quarter of each year. For which inspection the operator of said taxicab shall pay to the City Collector of the City of Jonesboro an inspection fee of $2.50 for each taxicab so operated within the City of Jonesboro, and the City Collector shall issue the windshield sticker herein provided for upon sworn certificate of inspection signed by the City Mechanic.
SECTION 5: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate any taxicab within the City of Jonesboro unless it is covered by an automobile liability insurance policy to the extent of not less than $10,000.00 for the injury or death of any one person, $20,000.00 personal injury or death for each accident; and $5,000.00 for damage to property for each accident; and unless there shall be filed with the City Collector of the City of Jonesboro a duly certified copy of such insurance policy, and a certificate of insurance agent or company showing premium paid; and unless there be attached to the original policy and to the copy filed with the City of Jonesboro an endorsement requiring and binding the insurance company to give to the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas not less than ten (10) days written notice before any provisions of the policy could be changed, suspended, cancelled, or otherwise terminated.
SECTION 6: The windshield inspection sticker herein provided for shall be in substantially the following form:
“TAXICAB INSPECTION CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this taxicab, a 19_____ model _______________, Motor or Identification No.__________, has been duly inspected for the quarter ending ____________, 19_____, and,
at the date of inspection was found to be in safe mechanical condition and good repair.
That this taxicab is covered for the quarter above mentioned by a policy of liability insurance with the _______________________________Insurance Company
CITY COLLECTOR, CITY OF JONESBORO”
SECTION 7: If any licensee or person, firm or corporation operating any taxicabs within the City of Jonesboro by permit or franchise granted by the City of Jonesboro shall fail to operate it’s taxicabs for a period of ten (10) consecutive days, or if any section, provision or requirement contained in this Ordinance be violated, then, and in either of such events, the licenses or franchise to operate said taxicabs may be revoked by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro upon the giving of ten (10) days notice so to revoke by certified mail addressed to the last known address of said cab company.
SECTION 8: Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense; and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
SECTION 9: It is found and determined by the City Council of Jonesboro that numerous taxicabs are being operated within the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, in an unclean and unsanitary condition, in a poor state of repair, and without proper braked, horn, lights, tires, and otherwise mechanically defective, and that the operation of said taxicabs in such conditions constitutes a hazard to the public and endangers the lives of the citizens of Jonesboro; and this ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation and protection of the public health, peace, and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and that ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and adoption.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 17th day of August 1959.