5.30.010 - Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter certain words and phrases are defined, and certain provisions shall be construed, as herein set out, unless it shall be apparent from their context that they have a different meaning:

"Driver" means any person in charge of or operating any public motor vehicle, as defined, either as agent, employee or otherwise, under the direction of the owner, as defined in this section.

"Limousine" means a closed motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, of private appearance (except as to license plates), not equipped with a taximeter, designed to accommodate a minimum of seven persons, inclusive of the driver, and used for the transportation of persons for hire over and along the public streets, not over a fixed and defined route but, as to route and destination, under the direction of the passenger or person hiring such limousine, the charges for use of which are based upon rates per mile, per trip, per hour, per day, per week, or per month.

"Motorbus" means an automobile or other auto-motor-propelled vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for hire over the public streets of the city of Oakland and over a defined route and upon a fixed schedule excepting motorbus continuations of street railway lines and/or a part of a street railway system, and auto stages plying between the city of Oakland and other cities. The term shall include motorbuses used by airlines for transportation of their patrons.

"Motorcycle escort service" means the furnishing of a motorcycle and rider to lead or escort any funeral cortege or other motor procession for compensation or hire. Wherever the word "driver" is used in this chapter relative to public motor vehicles, it shall be deemed to also refer to a rider of a motorcycle in such escort service.

"Owner" means any person, firm or corporation having proprietary control of, or right to proprietary control of, any public motor vehicle as defined in this chapter.

"Private ambulance" means a vehicle for hire to move a sick or injured person.

"Public motor vehicle" means any "limousine," "sightseeing bus," "motorbus," any vehicle used in a "motorcycle escort service" as defined in this chapter, or any "private ambulance," other than a private ambulance operating in the city solely pursuant to a contract with the county of Alameda to provide emergency ambulance services.

"Sightseeing bus" means an automobile or other auto-motor-propelled vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for hire over the public streets of the city of Oakland and adjacent highways, leading to scenic, historic, educational, architectural and other places of interest, in order that the passengers may view the same. Sightseeing buses need not run over a defined route or upon a fixed schedule, but must have an established rate of fare which shall cover the entire trip.

(Prior code §§ 5-14.01, 5-14.01(b), 5-14.01(d)—5-14.01(j))

5.30.020 - Owner's permit to operate public motor vehicle.

It is unlawful to operate any public motor vehicle in the city unless the owner thereof shall apply for, and obtain, a permit so to do, which permit shall be applied for, granted and in existence, all in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 5.02. The application for such owner's permit shall set forth, in addition to the requirements specified in Section 5.02.020, the number of vehicles proposed and a complete description of the vehicles proposed to be operated. In addition thereto, every application for an owner's permit to operate a motorbus shall set forth, in full, the proposed routes and schedules. The contents of such notice in addition to those specified in Section 5.02.050, shall include a statement of the kind and number of the vehicles to be operated and the nature of the proposed operations. The investigating official referred to in Section 5.02.030, to whom the application shall be referred, shall be the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-14.02)

5.30.030 - Notice of hearing on application.

In addition to the notice required in Section 5.30.020, the City Clerk shall give a written notice of the time and place of hearing to all persons holding valid permits of the class requested by the applicant, at least three days before the date of such hearing.

(Prior code § 5-14.021)

5.30.040 - Action on application for owner's permit to operate public motor vehicle.

In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5.02.060 upon which an application for an owner's permit may be denied, the Police Department shall deny the same if it shall appear to his or her satisfaction that such vehicle proposed to be operated is inadequate or unsafe; that the applicant has been convicted of a felony or the violation of any narcotics law or of any penal law involving moral turpitude; that the applicant's proposed color scheme, name, monogram, insignia, uniform or cap will be in conflict with, or imitate, any color scheme, name, monogram, insignia, uniform or cap used by any other person operating a public motor vehicle in such a manner as to be misleading or tend to deceive or defraud the public; that in case of an application to operate a motorbus, the proposed schedule is inadequate or that the proposed route is incompatible with expedient traffic regulations.

(Prior code § 5-14.03)

5.30.050 - Renewal of owner's permit.

Every owner's permit issued pursuant to Section 5.30.040 shall expire one year after date of issuance, or renewal, unless the same is renewed for an additional period of one year by the Police Department. Application for such renewal shall be made in conformity with, and shall contain such information as may be required by, rules prescribed by the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-14.031)

5.30.060 - Ambulance identification emblem.

It is unlawful to operate any ambulance in the city unless there is displayed within the vehicle an Identification Emblem issued by the Chief of Police. Such emblem shall be four inches by four inches, mounted and facing forward from the dashboard of the vehicle in a position visible through the windshield of the passenger side of the vehicle. The identification emblem shall set forth the name of the permittee, the name of the company under which the vehicle is operating, the year, make, license number, vehicle identification number, assigned fleet vehicle number, city permit number and permit expiration date.

The owner of an ambulance shall obtain one identification emblem issued by the Police Department for each said public motor vehicle to be operated in the city, when, to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police, said owner is in possession of a valid city permit for each said public motor vehicle, and the vehicle meets such inspection standards as the Chief of Police may require. Identification emblems shall be renewed annually preceding the expiration date of the permit. Ambulances shall not be operated for hire until such time as all of the aforementioned requirements have been met.

(Prior code § 5-14.032)

5.30.070 - Suspension and revocation of owner's permit to operate public motor vehicle.

In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5.02.080 upon which the City Manager may revoke or suspend any owner's permit to operate a public motor vehicle, the City Manager shall have the power to so suspend or revoke the same for a violation of any of the provisions of this code or any ordinance relating to traffic or use of streets, or for a failure to pay any judgment for damages arising from the unlawful or negligent operation of the public motor vehicle for which the permit was issued.

(Prior code § 5-14.04)

5.30.080 - Driver's permit to operate a public motor vehicle.

It is unlawful for any driver to operate any public motor vehicle in the city unless there exists a valid permit so to do as herein provided. Application for such driver's permit shall be made to the Chief of Police, shall be in writing and in duplicate, and the original thereof shall be duly acknowledged before some person lawfully authorized to administer oaths. Such original shall be forthwith transmitted by the Chief of Police to the City Clerk. Said application shall set forth the name, age and address of the applicant, his or her past experience in operating automobiles, the names and addresses of his or her employers during the preceding period of three years, whether or not a chauffeur's license issued to him or her by the state of California or any state or governmental agency has ever been revoked, the name and address of the owner by whom he or she is to be employed as a driver (which said owner shall endorse the said application), and such additional information as the Chief of Police may require.

(Prior code § 5-14.05)

5.30.090 - Driver's permit—Procedure and requirements.

Upon application for a driver's permit and before it shall be issued, the driver, whether the owner or otherwise, must evidence a proficient knowledge of the traffic laws of the city of Oakland and of the state of California, and demonstrate his or her ability to operate a public motor vehicle, all to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police. Upon satisfying the foregoing requirements, said driver shall be fingerprinted by, and his or her record filed in, the Police Department Bureau of Identification. Said driver shall also file with his or her application two recent photographs (size one and one-half inch by one and one-half inch), one to be filed with his or her application and one to be permanently attached to his or her driver's permit when issued, which permit shall be posted in a place conspicuous from the passengers' compartment of the public motor vehicle while said driver is operating same. Every driver's permit issued hereunder shall set forth the name of the owner for which said driver is authorized to operate a public motor vehicle, and shall be valid only so long as he or she continues in the employ of such owner. Upon the termination of such employment, the said driver shall forthwith surrender his or her driver's permit to the Chief of Police. No such driver's permit shall be granted to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years. Such driver's permit may be denied upon substantial evidence of facts of either physical or moral deficiencies of the applicant which, in the sound discretion of the Chief of Police, would render such applicant not a competent person to operate a public motor vehicle.

No such driver's permit issued hereunder shall be transferable in any event.

(Prior code § 5-14.06)

5.30.100 - Temporary driver's permit.

The Chief of Police may, in his or her discretion, grant a temporary permit to drive or operate any public motor vehicle pending final action on any application for a permanent driver's permit as in this chapter provided for, but no such temporary permit may be issued to any person who does not have a chauffeur's license issued by the state of California. Said temporary permit shall authorize the holder thereof to drive any such vehicle for a period of thirty (30) days when the holder thereof shall have such temporary permit in his or her immediate possession.

(Prior code § 5-14.062)

5.30.110 - Notice of change of driver's address.

Every person holding a public motor vehicle driver's permit shall at all times keep the Chief of Police notified of his or her residential address. He or she shall notify the Chief of Police, in writing, of any change in said address within ten days after such change is made.

(Prior code § 5-14.063)

5.30.120 - Suspension and revocation of driver's permit.

The City Manager and the Chief of Police, and either of them, shall have the power to revoke or suspend any driver's permit issued hereunder in the event the holder thereof shall be found guilty of a violation of any provisions of this chapter or shall be found guilty of reckless driving, or for the violation of any other provisions of this code or other law; which violation, in the sound discretion of said official, shall be deemed sufficient evidence of the fact that said driver is not a competent person to operate a public motor vehicle. Such revocation by the Chief of Police, together with the reason therefor, shall be forthwith reported to the City Manager.

In the event of such revocation or suspension of a driver's permit, such certificate as may be issued in connection therewith shall be, by the holder thereof, forthwith surrendered to the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-14.07)

5.30.130 - No motorbus in certain area.

In order that the safety of the public may be adequately protected, and to relieve the congested condition of the street traffic now existing, no permit for the operation of any motorbus as such shall hereafter be granted under the provisions of this chapter upon any of the streets of the city within the following described area:

Commencing at the point of intersection of the north line of Seventh Street with the east line of Clay Street, thence running easterly along the northerly line of Seventh Street to its intersection with the east line of Webster Street, thence northerly along the east line of Webster Street to its intersection with the south line of Twentieth Street, thence westerly along the south line of Twentieth Street to its intersection with the easterly line of San Pablo Avenue; thence southeasterly along the easterly line of San Pablo Avenue to its intersection with the east line of Clay Street produced; thence southerly along said easterly line of Clay Street to its intersection with the north line of Seventh Street, being the point of commencement; provided, however, that the City Manager may, on any public occasion or in case of any public emergency or necessity, and upon oral or written application, grant to holders of permits issued under the provisions of this chapter special permits for such public occasion, or during such public emergency or necessity to operate upon or use any or all of the streets within the area hereinabove described in connection with the route or routes described in the application upon which such permit was issued.

(Prior code § 5-14.09)

5.30.140 - Motor vehicle liability policy required.

It is unlawful for any owner to drive or operate, or cause or permit to be driven or operated, any public motor vehicle in the city unless such owner shall have placed on file with the City Clerk a written certificate or certificates of a responsible and solvent corporation holding a certificate of authority to do business in the state of California, or by an authorized surplus lines broker that there has been issued to or for the benefit of the owner, a motor vehicle liability policy or policies which at the date of said certificate or certificates are in full force and effect, and designating therein that any and all public motor vehicles which may be driven or operated under any permit granted to such owner under the provisions of this chapter are or will be covered under said policy or policies.

(Prior code § 5-14.10)

5.30.150 - Condition of motor vehicle liability policy amounts.

The motor vehicle liability policy required under the provisions of Section 5.30.140 shall insure the owner, as defined in this chapter, or any other person using or responsible for the use of any such vehicle, with the consent, expressed or implied, of such owner, against loss from liability imposed upon such owner by law for injury to, or death of, any person, or damage to property growing out of maintenance, operation or ownership of any public motor vehicle, to the amount or limit of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) on account of injury to or death of any one person, of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) on account of any one accident resulting in injury to or death of more than one person, and of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for damage to property of others, resulting from any one accident.

(Prior code § 5-14.11)

5.30.160 - Motor vehicle liability insurance—Cancellations—Continuing liability.

Every certificate required under the provisions of Section 5.30.140 shall certify that the motor vehicle liability policy or policies therein cited shall not be cancelled except upon ten days' prior written notice thereof to the City Manager. Said motor vehicle liability insurance shall be a continuing liability up to the full amount thereof notwithstanding any recovery thereon, and said certificates thereof shall so certify. All motor vehicle liability policies and all certificates thereof shall be subject to the approval of the City Manager in any and all matters and if, at any time in the judgment of the City Manager, said motor liability policies are not sufficient for any cause, said Manager may require the owner of such public motor vehicle who filed the same to replace said motor vehicle policies within ten days with other policies in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. If said owner fails to replace said motor vehicle policies within said ten-day period with good and sufficient policies as aforesaid, then at the termination of said period the owner's permit issued hereunder shall be by such failure automatically suspended until such time as said requirement is complied with, and the Chief of Police shall enforce such suspension. Such certificate of insurance shall be presented to the City Attorney and approved by him or her as to form.

(Prior code § 5-14.12)

5.30.170 - Surplus lines insurance—Certificate.

If the insurance company issuing such policy of insurance does not hold a certificate of authority issued by the Insurance Commissioner of the state of California to do business in the state of California, such certificate shall have endorsed thereon an endorsement executed by the company issuing such policy, which endorsement shall be substantially as follows:

It is agreed that in the event of a dispute as to the validity of any claim made by the assured under this certificate of insurance, or in the event of any suit instituted by the assured against the company upon this contract, the company hereon will submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of California, and will comply with all legal requirements necessary to give such courts jurisdiction; and for this purpose said company hereby appoints ____________ at Street, ____________, California, its agent for the purpose of service of process; and in any suit instituted by the assured against the company upon this contract, the company will abide by the final decision of the courts of said State and settle accordingly.

(Prior code § 5-14.121)

5.30.180 - Driver's identification.

Every operator of a sightseeing bus, while in the course of his or her employment and while outside his or her sightseeing bus, shall wear a distinctive hat or cap with an appropriate insignia in plain sight identifying his or her employment with the name or fictitious company name under which the owner operates.

(Prior code § 5-14.141)

5.30.190 - Owner's identification and rates to be displayed in vehicle.

Every limousine shall have conspicuously displayed in full view of the passenger or passengers a card not less than two by four inches in size which shall have stated thereon the name of the owner, or the fictitious name under which the owner operates, together with the business address and telephone number of said business, and the owner's identifying number of such vehicle, and also the rates of fare to be charged for use of such vehicle.

(Prior code § 5-14.151)

5.30.200 - Public motor vehicle stands.

The Traffic Engineer may, upon the written application of any public motor vehicle owner, permit such owner to allow any vehicle operated by him or her to stand at certain places designated for said owner while awaiting employment. Such application shall state the number and kind of vehicles for which the permit is sought and the proposed location of such stands. Such application must be accompanied by the written consent of the person primarily affected by reason of the fact that such vehicle shall stand in front of the premises either owned or occupied by him or her or in which he or she is otherwise interested. Not more than three such vehicles shall be permitted to stand upon either side of a street within the limits of any one block. No permit shall be issued for any stand to be located within seventy-five (75) feet of another such stand on the same side of the street, nor shall more than two stands be granted to any owner for each licensed public motor vehicle. No owner shall permit any vehicle operated by him or her, and no driver shall cause any such vehicle to stand while awaiting employment at any place other than a stand for which a permit has been granted to him or her as herein provided; and not more than one such vehicle shall be so permitted or caused to stand in any one stand at any time; except, however, that where in the discretion of the City Manager, public conveniences so require, two such vehicles shall be permitted or caused to stand in any one stand.

It is unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, other than the driver of a public vehicle for which the stand permit has been issued, to park or leave standing such vehicle in any public motor vehicle stand. All such stands shall be distinctly identified as such.

(Prior code § 5-14.16)

5.30.210 - Unattended vehicles in street stands prohibited.

No owner shall permit any public motor vehicle operated by him or her, and no driver shall cause any such vehicle, to be parked unattended in any street stand for a period of time exceeding five minutes.

(Prior code § 5-14.161)

5.30.220 - Limousine shall operate from fixed location.

Every owner of a limousine shall operate from a fixed location, other than a public street. It is unlawful for any owner of a limousine to cruise the public streets for the purpose of soliciting fares.

(Prior code § 5-14.162)

5.30.230 - Exclusive use by passengers—Window blinds prohibited.

When a limousine is engaged, the occupants shall have the exclusive right to the full and free use of the passenger compartment, and it is unlawful for the owner or driver of such vehicle to solicit or carry passengers contrary to such right; provided, however, that whenever the Chief of Police finds that public necessity temporarily requires the grouping of passengers in limousines, he or she may issue a special written permit, limited in time, which permit shall specifically set forth the rules and regulations under which such passenger grouping is permitted. It is unlawful for the driver of any limousine to cause or permit any shade or blind to be drawn over any window of such vehicle while the same is occupied.

(Prior code § 5-14.17)

5.30.240 - Driver to use direct route.

The driver of a limousine employed to carry passengers to a definite point shall take the most direct route possible that will carry the passengers safely, lawfully and expeditiously to said destination.

(Prior code § 5-14.171)

5.30.250 - Receipt for fare.

The driver of any public motor vehicle, other than a motorbus, shall give a receipt, upon the request of any passenger, for the fare paid by such passenger.

(Prior code § 5-14.18)

5.30.260 - Refusal to pay fare.

It is unlawful for any person to hire a limousine or to enter and obtain a ride in the same, and to thereafter depart from such limousine without paying to the driver the legal fare.

(Prior code § 5-14.181)

5.30.270 - Keeping of waybills required.

The driver of every limousine shall keep a separate waybill of every service rendered by such driver, which waybill shall include the following information: (A) location where passengers entered vehicle; (B) time of entry; (C) number of passengers; (D) location where passengers were discharged; and (E) amount of fare collected. The owner of every limousine shall keep said waybills in his or her office files for a period of ninety (90) days after the date of service rendered, and the same shall at all convenient times be open to examination by any authorized representative of the Chief of Police. The falsifying of any waybill by an owner or by a driver shall be grounds for revocation of his or her permit.

(Prior code § 5-14.183)

5.30.280 - Motorbus service to general public.

No driver of any motorbus in the city shall at any time, unless said vehicle is filled to legal capacity, refuse to carry any person offering himself or herself to be carried, and tendering the fare for the same, to any place in the route of said vehicle; provided, however, that such driver shall refuse transportation to any person who is in an intoxicated condition or who is conducting himself or herself in a boisterous or otherwise unruly manner.

(Prior code § 5-14.19)

5.30.290 - Motorbus—Completion of trip.

It is unlawful for any driver of any motorbus in the city, who has received a passenger for any announced or agreed trip, except for reasons beyond the control of the owner or driver, to fail to complete said trip with all reasonable dispatch and without any extra payment of fare, or to fail, refuse or neglect to operate such motorbus between the termini and over the entire route specified in the permit granted to so operate.

(Prior code § 5-14.21)

5.30.300 - Motorbus—Change in route.

No owner or driver of any motorbus operated in the city shall at any time change or alter the route of same except upon permission duly granted by the City Manager after application is made therefor.

(Prior code § 5-14.22)

5.30.310 - Motorbus lights.

No motorbus operated in the city other than a motorbus used by an airline for transportation of its patrons shall be operated in the nighttime unless the passengers' compartment thereof be kept continuously lighted.

(Prior code § 5-14.23)

5.30.320 - Motorbus stops.

It is unlawful for any motorbus operated in the city to receive or discharge passengers within any intersection of streets and in all cases such reception and discharge of passengers shall be at a point as near the curb as may be practicable, and shall be through and from the side of such motorbus nearest the street curb and on the right-hand side thereof. The places of receiving and discharging passengers by motorbuses shall be at all times subject to order of the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-14.24)

5.30.330 - Motorbus, railroad crossing.

It is unlawful for any person operating a motorbus to permit, cause or allow such vehicle to cross any railroad track at any intersecting street in the city over which railroad trains are operated, without bringing such vehicle to a full stop before crossing said railroad track; it is unlawful for any person operating such motorbus to permit, cause or allow such vehicle to cross any street railroad track at any intersecting street unless such person shall have reduced the speed of such vehicle to not more than five miles per hour while crossing such track; provided, that at any point where a flagperson is stationed, such person operating such motorbus shall not be required to stop unless warned or directed by such flagperson so to do; and provided, further, that at any point where a traffic officer is stationed, such person operating such motorbus shall comply with the direction of such traffic officer.

(Prior code § 5-14.25)

5.30.340 - Emergency permits.

The City Council may, in case of any public emergency or necessity, waive or modify by ordinance any or all of the requirements of this chapter pertaining to public motor vehicles, and may authorize and direct the City Clerk to issue a temporary permit for the operation of any public motor vehicle over and upon the public streets of the city, without exacting any application fee or license fee therefor, to any person recommended by the Chief of Police, such permit to be revocable at any time, with or without notice, by the Chief of Police or by the City Council.

(Prior code § 5-14.26)

5.30.350 - Smoking in public motor vehicles.

It is unlawful for any person to smoke any cigar, pipe or cigarette, or to carry any lighted cigar, pipe or cigarette within any public motor vehicle, except limousines being operated within the city. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to render unlawful smoking within the units of commercial railroads designed for or set aside for smoking by the utility operating such trains.

(Prior code § 5-14.261)

5.30.360 - Additional vehicles.

Any owner holding a permit to operate one or more public motor vehicles as provided in this chapter who desires to add to the number of such vehicles shall do so only upon obtaining from the Chief of Police, permission therefor, which shall be granted only upon application made in the same manner and under the same proceedings as are required in this chapter in the instance of obtaining the original permit. Any owner holding a permit to operate one or more public motor vehicles as provided in this chapter, who desires to substitute a different vehicle for a vehicle operated under such permit, shall do so only upon obtaining, from the Chief of Police, permission therefor, which shall be granted only upon written application setting forth the particulars of such proposed substitution, and upon otherwise complying with the requirements of this chapter. The Chief of Police shall have the same authority in granting or denying such application for permission to add or substitute vehicles as is hereinbefore in this chapter vested in him or her in the manner of original applications.

(Prior code § 5-14.27)

5.30.370 - Maximum load.

It is unlawful to drive or operate any public motor vehicle in the city while such vehicle is carrying or sustaining the weight of two or more persons in excess of the seating capacity thereof, according to the statement thereof contained in the application upon which the permit to operate such vehicle was granted, or to permit any passenger to ride upon the running board of such vehicle or to sit upon the fender or dash or doors thereof; provided however, that firefighter of the city may ride free upon any motorbus, or any part thereof, on their way to or from fires along the regular route then being traversed. For the purposes of this section, children in arms shall not be considered as persons.

(Prior code § 5-14.28)

5.30.380 - Safety features—Motorbus signs.

The safety features and equipment of all public motor vehicles operated under permit issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be at all times subject to the jurisdiction and orders of the Chief of Police. All motorbuses operated pursuant to permit issued under the provisions of this chapter shall carry on the front of such vehicle a sign, plainly readable by night or by day at a distance of one hundred (100) feet giving the route to be traversed and the termini of said route and the price or fare charged. Such sign shall be subject to the approval of the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-14.29)

5.30.390 - Daily operation.

Every person holding a permit under the provisions of this chapter relative to public motor vehicles shall regularly and daily operate his or her or its licensed public motor vehicle business during each day of the license year to the extent reasonably necessary to meet the public demand for such service. Upon abandonment of such public motor vehicle service for a period of ten consecutive days by an owner, the City Manager may conduct a hearing upon five days' notice to the holder of said permit, and, unless good and sufficient cause for such abandonment is evidenced, revoke the said permit granted under the terms of this chapter.

(Prior code § 5-14.30)

5.30.400 - Motorbus extensions of street railroads.

The provisions hereinbefore in this chapter set forth in Sections 5.30.010 to 5.30.090, both inclusive, shall not apply to motorbuses operated upon the streets of the city as an extension to, or in connection with, a street railroad. It is unlawful for any person to operate, or cause to permit to be operated, any such motorbus extension to a street railroad unless there exists a valid permit therefor, granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 5.02. The application for such permit shall set forth, in addition to the requirements specified in Section 5.02.020, the fact that the applicant is the owner of a street railroad in the city, and that he or she will operate such motorbus or buses in connection with such street railroad and under the same management, responsibility and control as such street railroad; the route or routes, including the streets proposed to be traversed and the termini thereof; the minimum schedule to be observed, showing minimum times of departure from said termini; the transfer points, or points at which connection is to be made with said street railroad; the number of motorbuses proposed to be operated and the type, horsepower and seating capacity of each of said motorbuses; the age of the applicant if the same is a natural person.

The investigating official referred to in Section 5.02.030, to whom the application shall be referred, shall be the Chief of Police.

In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5.02.060, the granting of such permit may be denied if it is the opinion of the City Manager that the public convenience and necessity do not warrant the operation of such motorbus or buses in accordance with said application.

Such permit, if granted, shall remain in full force and effect during the life of the franchise of the street railroad with which said bus line connects, or as to which it is an extension thereof, or is operated in connection therewith, but such permit and the service rendered thereunder may be revoked and abandoned upon the application of the holder thereof with the consent of the City Council.

(Prior code § 5-14.31)

5.30.410 - Increase in number of buses operated.

Any provision of this chapter set forth to the contrary notwithstanding, the holder of any permit provided for under Section 5.30.400, may from time to time, as in his or her judgment may be proper, increase the number of buses operated upon any route concerning which a permit has been granted, and may increase the schedule of time of departure less than the minimum schedule set forth in the application as in said Section 5.30.400 set out.

(Prior code § 5-14.32)

5.30.420 - Soliciting patronage.

It is unlawful for any person while soliciting or endeavoring to secure passengers, or freight or other custom for any public motor vehicle, or any vehicle for hire whatsoever, or any express wagon, or for any hotel, lodging house or boarding house, to be on any railway depot or passenger platform, pavement or walk provided for the use of railroad passengers, or between such platform, pavement or walk and any railroad train standing in front of such depot, or between any railway tracks over which passengers usually pass to or from such train.

No person shall solicit patronage for any hotel, vehicle or other business upon any railroad train, steamboat or public carrier or vehicle whatsoever within the corporate limits of the city without first having obtained permission so to do from the owner, charterer, lessee, or managing agent of such owner, charterer or lessee, of such railroad train, steamboat or other vehicle.

(Prior code § 5-14.34)

5.30.430 - Livery stables.

It is unlawful for any person to establish, maintain, or cause or permit to be established or maintained, any building or premises as a public livery stable unless there exists a valid permit therefor, granted and existing in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5.02. Public notice shall be given as provided in Section 5.02.050, and the investigating official referred to in Section 5.02.030, to whom the application shall be referred, shall be the Health Officer. The granting of such permit shall also be subject to the approval of the Fire Marshal.

(Prior code § 5-14.35)

5.30.440 - Investigation by Health Officer.

In addition to the requirements of Section 5.30.020, no application for an owner's permit to operate a private ambulance shall be granted until it has been referred to, and approved by, the Health Officer. It shall be the authority and duty of the Health Officer to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations governing the premises from which the private ambulance is to be operated, the condition of the vehicles, the equipment to be used therein, and the ambulance personnel, as changed from time to time, for the purpose of determining the fitness and suitability thereof from a health, safety and sanitary viewpoint. Findings by the Health Officer that unsanitary or other conditions detrimental to health are found to exist in any private ambulance or private ambulance operation shall be grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of the owner's or driver's permit, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 5.02.080 and 5.30.040.

(Prior code § 5-14.36)

5.30.450 - Vehicles to be used as ambulances.

A.

No private ambulance shall be so decorated as to convey to the public the idea that it is an emergency hospital ambulance.

B.

The term "ambulance" shall not be used or displayed on any vehicle or conveyance, public or private, unless used to move a sick or injured person.

C.

No vehicle or conveyance which will in any manner be used or shall be used for the removal or conveyance of the dead shall be used as an ambulance.

D.

Any permit holder may adopt a color or combination of color scheme which may be exclusively allotted to such holder by the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-14.37)