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ORDINANCE 283B18-13 than 3 such vehicles shall be permitted to stand on any one side of a street within the limits of any one block having a frontage of 500 feet or more, nor shall more than 2 such vehicles be permitted to stand upon any one side of such street within such block having a frontage of less than 500 feet, provided, however, that no permit shall be issued for any stand to be located within 50 feet of another such stand on the same side of any street. Provided, further, however, that the City Council or Traffic Authority may, after exercising reasonable discretion, grant from time to time renewals or extensions of permits for stands existing upon the adoption of this ordinance. (a) That it shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of any of the vehicles herein defined to stand or cause or permit such vehicle to stand while awaiting employ- ment at any place other than a stand designated by the City Council or Traffic Authority and assigned to the owner of said vehicle. (b) That it shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of any of the vehicles herein defined to leave such vehicle unattended in a stand for a period of time longer than 3 minutes. (c) That all stands may be occupied for the full period of 24 hours, provided, however, that nothing contained In this ordinance shall authorize the establishing of a stand at any place in the City of E1 Segundo where the standing of vehicles is prohibited by law. SECTION 9. That every vehicle used for carrying passengers for hire while standing upon any street in the City of E1 Segundo awaiting employment may display a sign with the words thereon "For Hire "; such sign shall be of metal or other material approved by the Traffic Authority, and of a uniform size of 6x9 inches. Every vehicle used 8.• -18. D for carrying passengers for sight - seeing purposes while standing upon any street in the City of El Segundo await - 1ng employment may display a sign with the words thereon "Sight - Seeing Bus," giving route, points visited or d6s. tination. Every such sign shall be of metal or of other material approved by the Traffic Authority, and of a uniform size of 8x24 inches. The outer surface of all signs specified in this paragraph shall be painted, printed or enameled a dark color and the letters and figures appearing thereon shall be white. (a) That every taxicab and vehicle for hire used for carrying passengers for hire shall display in the rear of the driver's seat and in the passenger's compartment and in full view of the passenger or passengers a card not less than 2x4 inches, nor more than 2*x5 inches, which shall have printed thereon the owner's name, or the corporate or fictitious name under which the owner operates and the business address and telephone number of such owner, together with the rates to be charged for such vehicle. (b) That every taxicab or vehicle for hire shall have conspicuously displayed thereon at one or more locations on the outside thereof the name of the owner or the corporate or fictitious name under which the owner operates, together with the Company�s telephone number and the cab or vehicle number. (o) That every taxicab or vehicle for hire may display an electrically lighted vacant sign attached to the top of such cab. Every such sign shall be not more than 2} inches high x 9 inches in length. (d) That it shall be unlawful to display any sign other than those provided in this section on any of the vehicles hereinbefore mentioned without first obtaining the written permission of the City Council or Traffic Authority so to do. n 1 I SECTION 10. That unless the owner or operator is permitted in writing by the City Council or Traffic Authority to post a schedule of fares in lieu of a taximeter it shall be unlawful for any owner operating any taxicab or vehicle for mire under the provisions of this ordinance to operate any such vehicle unless it is equipped with a taximeter of such type and design as may be approved by the City Council or Traffic Authority, and it shall be the duty of every owner using any taximeter to at all times keep such meter accurate, and such meter shall be subject to inspection from time to time, and the Traffic Authority or any inspector of the City Council or peace officer is authorized at his instance, or upon the complaint of any person, to investigate such taximeter, and upon the discovery of any inaccuracy of said taximeter to remove or cause to be removed any such vehicle equipped with said taximeter, from the streets of the City of El Segundo until said taximeter shall have been correctly adjusted. (a) That all taxicabs and vehicles required to have taximeters hereunder must base their charges on taximeters, and all taximeters shall be placed so that the reading dial showing the amount to be charged shall be well lighted and readily discernible by the passenger riding in such taxicab. (b) That it shall be unlawful for any driver of a taxicab or vehicle for hire while carrying passengers to dis- play the flag attached to the taximeter in such a position as to denote that such taxicab or vehicle is not employed, or to throw the flag of the taximeter in a recording position when such cab or vehicle is not actually employed, or to fail to throw the flag of such taximeter in a non - recording position at the termination of each and every service. 10- SECTION 11. That any driver employed to carry Passengers to a definite point shall take the most direct route possible that will carry the passengers safely, law. fully and expeditiously to their destination. (a) That when a taxicab or vehicle for hire is engaged, the occupants shall have the exclusive right to the full and free use of the passenger compartment, and it shall be unlawful for the owner, or driver of said taxicab, to solicit or carry additional passengers therein. SECTION 12. That it shall be unlawful for any person to refuse to pay the legal fare of any of the vehicles mentioned in this ordinance after having hired the same, and any person who shall hire any vehicle herein defined with the intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 13. That it shall be unlawful for any owner, driver or agent soliciting patronage for any of the vehicles mentioned in this ordinance, to misrepresent by word, sign, hat -band, insignia or badge the true identity of the vehicle for which such patronage is sought. SECTION 14. That it shall be unlawful for the operator of any taxicab or vehicle for hire upon receiving full payment for a fare as indicated by the taximeter or schedule of fares when such schedule is permitted in lieu of taximeter, to refuse to give a receipt upon the request of any passenger making said payment. SECTION lb. That the City Council shall have the power to grant or deny any or all permits herein when, in the exercise of reasonable discretion, it shall have determined that the applicant has or has not complied with all the provi- sions of this ordinance relating to the granting of such permits. 11- I That from the time of the revocation, or during the suspension of any such permit, it shall be unlawful for any such person whose permit is suspended or revoked to drive, operate or to be in charge of any of the vehicles mentioned in this ordinance, or to cause or to permit the vehicles on which the permit has been suspended or revoked to engage in the several classes of business mentioned in this ordinance or to allow any such vehicle to stand while awaiting employment at a location designated in such sus- pended or revoked permit or at any other location within said city until a new permit has been procured or until the period of suspension shall have expired. Provided, however, that the Traffic Authority may, and he is hereby authorized, to suspend any of the permits herein mentioned when the permittee has not complied with the provisions of this ordinance, or shall have been arrested for, or convicted of, the commission of a felony, or shall for, have been arrested or convicted of, reckless driving, pandering, or use, sale, possession, furnishing information regarding, or transportation of, narcotics or intoxicating liquors, or for assault, or battery, or shall have charged rates other than those which the permittee has on file with the City Council, or shall have violated any of the rules and reguls.• tions of the City Council or Traffic Authority pertaining to the operation of, and the extent, character and quality of the services of, taxicabs, autos for hire and eight - seeing autos. Said action of the Traffic Authority in suspending any of said permits is to be subject to the ratification and approval of said City Council at any of its meetings held subsequent to the action of the Traffic Authority, but not later than 21 days thereafter. That all permits issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be for a period not to exceed one year 12- i I -1 513 and all such permits shall expire upon the 30th day of June of each year at midnight, provided, however, that all per- mits issued for street stands, except those issued upon the written consent of a person operating a hotel which may be renewed yearly, shall remain in full force and effect until the same shall be cancelled either by the Council or Traffic Authority, or upon the request of the permittee, or the person who has given such written consent to use said stand shall have notified the City Council that such permission has been withdrawn. SECTION 16. That the City Council and also the Traffic Authority shall have authority to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the service and safety of the operation of the vehicles herein mentioned. SECTION 17. That at the time of the issuance of any permit under this ordinance to operate within said city any of the vehicles defined in subdivisions (g), (h) and (I) of Section 1 of this ordinance, the permittee shall pay to the City Clerk for said city a license fee of $10.00 per year, or $3.00 per quarter, for each such vehicle and such annual or quarterly fee shall continue to be paid to said city for the respective license periods coveredthereby as long as any such vehicle is so operated or offered for rental or hire within said city and as long as any permit for such operation is in effect. Said license fee hereunder shall be in lieu of any other municipal license fee or fees which might other- wise be payable to said city under any other ordinance or ordinances thereof for the same operation. In the event that any person holds a valid, current license under any other ordinance of the city for the type of vehicle herein referred to at the time this ordinance becomes effective, then and in that event credit shall be given the holder of any such 13- 185 license for the unexpired portion thereof on the first fee payable hereunder in the event such licensee is granted a permit under this ordinance, but in case such licensee is not granted a new permit hereunder, then and in that event any unearned portion of such existing license fee shall be refunded. SECTION 18. That any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a . misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Three Hundred Dollars 0300000), or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of EL Segundo, California, or in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, California, as the committing magistrate may direct, for a period of not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court. SECTION 19. That if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional,, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council of the City of E1 Segundo hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, Irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub- sections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unoons ti tutional. SECTION 20. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of the said city in the minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall within fifteen (15) days after 14.. f i I 3Ri5 the passage and adoption thereof cause the same to be published once in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general oirculation, published and circulated in said city, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. SECTION 21. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and virtue thirty (30) days from and after the date of the final passage and adoption thereof. Passed, approved and adopted this 16th day of August , A. D., 1945. zo��� W 2 Mayok-utfulEe City of El Segundo, California. ]FAR STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS. 'CITY OF LOS ANGELES. ) I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said city is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 283 , was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed pro tem by the Mayo!:/of said city, and attested by the City Clerk of said city, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 16thday of August , A. D... 1945, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Hessery Skelley, Thompson and Mayor pro tem Peterson NOES: Councilmen None ABSENT: Councilmen Selby. City Clerk o f t o o! a jZdo , (SEAL) `� California. 15- {{ I Imot" PS v 6 CLERBIS CERTIFICATE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS. CITY OF EL S EGUNDO I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said 'City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 283 Is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. T8 —, of the said City of El Segundo, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL S EGUN DO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE OPERATION OF TAXICABS AND MOTOR VEHICLES TRANSPORTING PASSENGERS FOR HIRE, OR FOR SIGHT - SEEING PURPOSES, UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF SAID CITY. ". which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said. c1t:!.. snd attested by the City Clerk of said city, all at a regalar meeting of the said Council held on the 16th day of August , 1945, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the 761lowing vo to : AYES: Councilmen Hesser, Skelly, Thompson and Mayor pro tem Peterson ; NOES : Councilmen None ; ABSENT: Councilmen sPlhy I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General Laws of the State of California (Deering 1923 Edition), as amended to date, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 283 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said city in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within the said city, and that the same was so published therein on the following date, to -wit: August 23, 1945 WITNESS my hand and the seal of said city this 24th day of August , 1945. (SEAL) i I Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CMJ[F08M_4, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ML CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, Frank L Snow . ......- ...... - – -------- being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that he was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the.—.--. . . ...................................... ... ..... printer and publisher of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub- lished and circulated WEEKLY In the City of El Segundo, In said County and State; that said news- paper has been so printed, published and circulated at regular Intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said newspaper Is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and Intelligence of a gen- eral character, having a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper In not and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the Interests, or published for the enter- tainment or Instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said news- paper Is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or Instructing x� clsgses, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, or any of such classes, professions, trjd1d* I oall- ings, races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page.A.. numbered --------- - - ' .......... -------- ----- A...... ------ hereof in all respects, including subJect matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full, true and correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of the same was preceded with words printed in black- face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument intended to be published, as will ap- pear from an inspection of the said annexed Instru- ment; that the Ord .... 2.8,3.(Rog.ul.at-ing.--OD-er.at.i.on ol-Taxic-abs.,ete) .... . . . ... ...... of which the annexed Is a printed copy as herein above stated, was published and printed in said newspaper at leastqA!!A ....... vMok ........ by .................. ........ � publication...., NNEMNsIMM on the 23rd:- -.day of ........... . :A1_.1j21a.U_8_t . ..... 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