HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-039 Taxicabs • ORDINANCE NO 96- 39
AN ORDINANCE relating to licenses and business regulations, regulating taxicabs
and vehicles for hire, allowing for additional taxicab service at
the airport and increasing the rates for taxicab services,
enacting a new section, Section 5 78 085, and amending Sections
5 78 090, 5 78 100, 5 78 130, and 5 78 230, all of the City of Yakima
Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA.
Section 1 Section 5 78 085 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby
enacted as a new section to read as follows:
"5 78 085 Vehicle markings.
Every taxicab operated within the city of Yakima and required by
this chapter to be licensed shall bear insignia indicating it is a vehicle
for hire. Such insignia shall include a raised placard or sign on the
roof of the vehicle indicating the vehicle is a taxicab or vehicle for
hire. In addition, the vehicle shall bear an insignia indicating the
name of the taxicab business. All markings required by this section
shall be removed from the vehicle as soon as the vehicle is removed
permanently from taxicab or vehicle for hire service."
Section 2 Section 5 78 090 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows.
"5 78 090 Color scheme.
Every taxicab operated within the city of Yakima and required by
this chapter to be licensed shall be painted in a distinctive color scheme
in accordance with the information contained in the for -hire vehicle
license application referred to in Section 5 78 050 of this chapter, which
color scheme shall not conflict with be distinctive from any other color
scheme previously adopted by any other person, firm or corporation
licensed under the provisions of this chapter "
Section 3 Section 5 78 100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"5.78.100 Taxicab rates and zones.
A. Taxicab Rates. The following rate schedule of taxicab rates
is established and adopted as the maximum rates that may be charged for
taxi fare in the city of Yakima, and it shall be unlawful for any person
driving or operating, or engaged in the business of operating, any
taxicab to charge any greater rate for taxicab fare than that specified
therein.
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• TAXICAB RATES
For one passenger for the first one - fifteenth
mile or fraction thereof S40 2.00
Thereafter for each additional one - fifteenth
mile or fraction thereof -0 A2
For each additional passenger (per trip) 50
(No charge shall be made for children under six
years of age when accompanied by an adult.)
For each twenty seconds of waiting time after the
first three minutes-0 .20
B. Posting Notices of Rates.
(1) Maximum Rates. A copy of the schedule of maximum rates
specified by this section shall be posted in each taxicab so as to be
plainly visible to every passenger seat in the vehicle, and it shall be
unlawful for any person to drive or operate a taxicab unless a copy of
such rate schedule is so posted.
(2) Annual Rates. In the event uniform rates lower than the
maximum rates provided by this section are charged by any taxicab
driver or operator of any taxicab business, a schedule of those actual
uniform rates shall be posted in each taxicab so as to be plainly visible
to every passenger seat in the vehicle, and, in such event, it shall be
unlawful for any person to drive or operate a taxicab unless a copy of
such actual uniform rate schedule is so posted.
• (3) Contract Rates. No provision of this section shall preclude
any taxicab driver or operator of a taxicab business from charging a
reduced fare, based on rates less than those posted in the taxicab, to any
passenger pursuant to an agreement for such a reduced fare, provided,
in the event such reduced fares are charged by any taxicab driver or
taxicab business operator, the schedule of actual rates charged, posted
in each taxicab, shall include the phrase "other rates by contact," or
other language of similar import.
(4) Discounted Fares The person charging the fares
authorized in this section shall reduce the total fare charged to any
physically, sensory or mentally handicapped person or person sixty-
two years of age or older a minimum of ten percent. It shall be the
obligation of the person benefited by this subsection to request the
discount and offer proof of such disability or age to the person
charging the fare. Provided, that, each taxicab shall have posted in its
passenger section a sign which shall read substantially as follows:
'Physically, sensory or mentally handicapped passengers
or persons sixty-two years of age and over may receive a
minimum of ten percent fare discount. This subsection
shall not be applicable to contract fares.'
C. Zones.
(1) Zone Map and Schedule. The city of Yakima is zoned into
s-ev-e-n nine zones numbered Zone 0 through Zone 611, as depicted on a
IP map entitled 'Taxicab Zone Rate Map,' dated and filed in the office of the
city clerk. In addition to the taxicab rates set forth in subsection A of
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• this section, a zone fare may be charged to ach passenger per trip as
follows:
Zone 0 .$ 0 00
Zone 1 50
Zone 2 1 00
Zone 3 1 50
Zone 4 2 00
Zone 5 2 50
Zone 6 3 00
Zone 750
Zone 8 4.0Q
If the passenger's point of origin or destination is in Zone 0, no
additional zone fare shall be charged. If the passenger's point of origin
and point of destination fall within the same zone, the zone fare for that
zone may be charged. If the passenger's point of origin and point of
destination fall in different zones, neither of which is in Zone 0, the
zone fare for the higher rate zone may be charged, regardless of
whether the point of origin or point of destination falls within the
higher rate zone.
(2) Posting Zone Map A copy of the zone map referred to in
this subsection shall be posted in each taxicab so as to be plainly visible
to every passenger seat in the vehicle, and it shall be unlawful for any
person to drive or operate a taxicab unless a copy of such map is so
• posted."
Section 4 Section 5 78 130 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 5.78.130 Meeting trains, buses or airlines.
Not more than erne two taxicaba from any one company shall meet
any train, bus or airline schedule and every driver of a taxicab arriving
at any such depot or airport shall, upon finding mother more than one
taxicab from the same company there, immediately drive away "
Section 5 Section 5 78 230 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"5 78 230 City driver's license - -Other offenses.
It is unlawful for any person to operate a for -hire vehicle in the
city of Yakima.
(a) Without his city driver's license being displayed in the
for -hire vehicle in a conspicuous place visible to passengers;
(b) Without wearing a distinctive cap of the style and color
designated by thc city clerk pursuant to thc information included on an
application for for hire vehicle license as provided in Section 5.78.050;
(e h) To fail or refuse to display his city driver's license to any
peace officer if demand for such display is made while the driver is on
duty "
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• Section 6 This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days after its
passage, approval, and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this aL‘y of ,
1996
ATTEST L nn Buchanan, Mayor
City Clerk
Publication Date. =.?
Effective Date: 6 'a V fl(o
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