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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PORTIONS OF
CHAPTER 5.50 OF THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO TAXICABS
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Portions of Chapter 5.50 are hereby amended to read as follows:
5.50.020 Permit-.Required--Exceptions.
A. Except as provided herein, no person shall drive, operate or cause to be
operated, nor shall any person employ, permit or allow another to drive, operate or cause
to be operated, any vehicle covered by this chapter over any street of the city for the
purpose of transporting a passenger, or passengers, for compensation, regardless of
whether such operation extends beyond the boundary limits of the city, without a permit
first obtained from the city manager authorizing such operation. Said permit shall be in the
immediate possession of every taxicab driver while operating a taxicab and shall be visible
to all passengers within a taxicab. Exceptions to this section are as follows:
1. A vehicle which is lawfully transporting a passenger or passengers from a
point outside Bakersfield city limits, to a destination within city limits, or is en route through
this city to a destination outside the city; provided, that no such vehicle shall, without such
permit, solicit or accept a passenger, or passengers, from within Bakersfield city limits for
transportation to any destination whatsoever;
2. A vehicle being operated pursuant to a franchise issued by the city, pursuant
to authority of the Public Utilities Commission of the state, or pursuant to regulations of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, unless authorized by law;
3. A vehicle being operated for the purpose of transporting bona fide pupils
attending an institution of learning between the~ homes and such institutions.
(Ord. 3862 § 1 (part), 1998: Ord. 2598 § 10, 1980; prior code § 7.52.010)
5.50.090 Vehicle identification.
A. No permit shall be granted to any carrier to operate any. ve. hic. le.~vered by
this chapter whose color scheme, name, trade name, monogram or ins~gma is in conflict
with, or in imitation of, any color scheme, name, trade name, monogram or insignia used
by any other carrier as defined in subsection A of Section 5.50.010, and which shall be of
such character and nature as to be misleading or deceptive to the public.
B. All color schemes or changes in color schemes shall be approved by the city
manager prior to a carrier conducting business under this chapter.
(Ord. 3862 § 1 (part), 1998: prior code § 7.52.080)
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5.50.110 Numbers.
A. A series of numbers shall be assigned by the chief of police to carriers for use
on their taxicabs.
B. Each taxicab operated pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall be
numbered.
C. Numbers shall be displayed on the driver-side, passenger-side and rear of
the taxicab and painted upon the body of the taxicab in numerals of a size, color, visibility
and position or positions approved from time to time by the chief of police.
(Ord. 3862 § 1(part), 1998: prior code § 7.52.100)
5.50.130 Vehicle equipment--Inspection.
A. All vehicles operated by any carrier as defined in subsection A of Section
5.50.010 shall, before being placed in service, be approved by the chief of police of the city
and comply with all State of California statutes regulating taxicabs. All the vehicles shall
be of a design and type of construction as shall comply with orders and regulations
pertaining to the equipment adopted from time to time by the city manager. The vehicles
shall at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and in good state of repair, and
shall be subject to constant inspection by the chief of police. Any vehicle which becomes
unsafe, or unserviceable, either from the standpoint of its state of repair, or its condition
of obsolescence, may be retired from service upon order of the chief of police, and no
vehicle which has been so retired shall be again operated in such service except with
approval of the chief of police.
B. It shall be unlawful for a carrier or taxicab driver to operate a taxicab without
being inspected and having a valid inspection sticker issued by the chief of police for
service within the city.
C. It shall be unlawful to operate a taxicab after being placed out~of-service
without being re-inspected and re-stickered by the chief of police for the city.
D. In the event the condition of any vehicle shall, in the opinion of the chief of
police, be so unclean, unsightly or mechanically defective as to be undesirable for use by
the public, the chief of police may require such vehicle to be immediately withdrawn from
service and such vehicle shall not be again placed in service until approved by the chief
of police.
E. It is unlawful for a taxicab or its driver to carry, contain or otherwise possess
or receive information from any type of device, which monitors other taxicab activities, or
public safety calls.
(Ord. 3862 § 1 (part), 1998: prior code § 7.52.120)
5.50.140 Taximeter--Operation, placement, inspection, flag and charges.
A. It is unlawful for any carrier to operate any taxicab in the city unless and until
such taxicab is equipped with a taximeter of a design which has been approved by the
chief of police, and it shall be the duty of the carrier operating such taxicab, and also the
driver thereof, to keep such meter operating at all times within such standard of accuracy
as may be prescribed from time to time by the chief of police. No passenger shall be.
carried in any such taxicab unless such taximeter is in operation. This provision shall apply
regardless of whether the taxicab is engaged for a trip entirely within the boundaries of the
city or partially outside thereof, and such meter shall be kept operating continuously during
the entire time that it is engaged in the transportation of passengers for compensation,
regardless of the point of destination, provided such destination is within five miles of any
exterior boundary of the city. .~ ~(E.~,~
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B. The taximeter shall be placed in each taxicab so that the reading dial showing
the amount to be charged is well lighted and readily discernible to a passenger riding in
any such taxicab.
C. Every taximeter used in the operation of taxicabs shall be subject to
inspection at any time by the chief of police, or his representatives. Upon discovery of any
inaccuracy of such taximeter, the operator thereof shall remove, or cause to be removed
from service any vehicle equipped with such taximeter until such taximeter has been
repaired and accurately adjusted.
D. Every taximeter shall be inspected, tested and affixed with a label for
accuracy for the current year by "Kern County Weights and Measures" at the carriers
expense. No such label shall be removed except at the time a subsequent inspection is
made.
Every carrier shall provide a copy of the taximeter inspection sheet to be placed in
the carriers file and a copy will be retained in the vehicle for inspection at any time.
The date on which such inspection was made shall be stamped in the blank space
provided for that purpose. No such label shall be removed except at the time a
subsequent inspection is made.
E It is unlawful for any driver of any taxicab, while carrying passengers, to
display the "flag" attached to the taximeter in such a position as to denote that such vehicle
is not employed, or to fail to threw the "flag" of the taximeter to a position indicating such
vehicle is unemployed at the termination of each and every service.
F. All charges for taxicab service shall be calculated and indicated by a
taximeter, and at all times while the taxicab is engaged, the "flag" of the taximeter shall be
thrown into a position to register charges for mileage, or into a position to register charges
for waiting time. No taximeter shall be used whose mechanism will register a combined
charge for mileage and waiting time in any single position, and no taximeter shall be so
operated as to cause any charge to be registered thereon except during the time while a
passenger, or passengers engage the taxicab.
(Ord. 3862 § 1 (part), 1998: Ord. 2598 § 11, 1980; prior code § 7.52.130)
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provisions of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after the date of its
passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the
Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on ~UG 8 ZI)~I by the
following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBER CARSON, ~c~..IAM, MAGGARD, COUCH, HANSON, SULLIVAN, SALVAGGIO
COUNClLMEMBER ~ (3~'~
COUNClLMEMBER ]~ 0
COUNClLMEMBER ~ ~J'.~
CITY CLERK and EX OFFICIO of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED: /~G 8 ZOO1
I~.a~:~VL~f ~.. HALL, Ma~,~r
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
BART J. THILTGEN
City A~o~
Deputy City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
) SS.
County of Kern )
PAMELA A. McCARTHY, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield;
and that on the 9th day of August , 2001 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City
Hall, a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4013 , passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 8th
entitled:
day of August 2001 and
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PORTIONS OF CHAPTER 5.50 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO TAXICABS.
/s/PAMELA A. McCARTHY
City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield
DEPUTY"~;ity Clerk "0 'J
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August 9, 2001
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