Ordinance - 574ORDINANCE NO. 574
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 324 RELATING
TO TAXICABS.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section 4 of Ordinance No. 324, passed and
approved the 26th day of July, 1954, is hereby amended to read as
follows•
"SECTION 4. Upon receipt of any application referred to
in the -immediately preceding section, the City Clerk shall set
a time, not less than ten nor more than thirty days thereafter,
for the hearing of the said application before the City Council,
and shall give -notice of the time so set, at least five days
before the date -of such hearing by mail, to the applicant at
the address.set out in such application,and to the holder of
each outstanding owner's permit which is then in force, and
by publication of notice of such application and the date of
hearing in a newspaper in the City on one day of publication.
At the time set for the hearing of such application, the
City Council may examine the applicant and all persons interested
in the matter set forth -in said application, and shall determine
whether or not the public interest, convenience and necessity,
require the issuance of the permit applied for, and if _ it be
found by the Council that the public interest, convenience and
necessity, require the issuance of the permit applied for, it
shall by resolution -order the City Clerk to issue an owner's
permit in accordance with said application, subject to the
filing and approval of a policy or certificate of insurance as
hereinafter provided, and subject to such conditi.uns as may be
imposed by said resolution including the minimum and maximum
number of vehicles that may be used.
Any of the following reasons shall be sufficient for
denial of said owner's permit:
1. That the application is not in the form, and does
not contain the information required to be contained therein by
this ordinance.
2. That the vehicles described therein are inadequate or
unsafe for the purposes for which they are to be used.
3. That the color scheme, name, monogram, or insignia
to be used upon such automobiles shall be in conflict with or
imitate any color scheme, name, monogram or insignia used by
any person in such manner as to be misleading or tend to deceive
or defraud the public.
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4. That the applicant has; at some prior time, had an
owner's permit revoked for reason.
5. That it shall appear to the City Council that there
are a sufficient number of taxicabs and automobiles for hire in
the City to fully serve the public, and that the public interest,
convenience and necessity, do not require the issuance of such
permit.
Before an owner's permit shall be issued by the City Clerk.,
the applicant to whom such permit shall have been awarded by the
City Council as aforesaid, shall deliver to the City Clerk a
policy -or certificate of insurance, executed by a company duly
authorized under the laws of the State to do an insurance busi-
ness by the provisions of which policy the said company promises
and undertakes to pay in full all claims for damages to persons
or property resulting from the operation of the automobiles
referred to in said application, provided, that the maximum
amount for which liability shall be assumed for injury to or
death of one person in any one accident shall be not less than
$50,000.00, and for injury to or death of more than one person
in any one accident shall be not less than $100,000.00, and
the maximum amount for which liability shall be assumed for
injury to or destruction of property in any one accident shall
be not less than $25,000.00. The owner shall also file an
endorsement of said insurance policy or policies with the City
Clerk wherein it is provided that the same shall not be cancelled
by the insurer until the City, by service on the City Clerk.,
shall have written notice at least ten days immediately prior
to the time when such cancellation shall become effective."
SECTION 2. Section 5 of said Ordinance No. 324 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 5. Each permit issued by the City Council shall
entitlethe-holder thereof to obtain a license from the City
Clerk upon the payment of the prescribed license fee, to operate
the automobile or automobiles for hire set forth and described in
the permit. Such license shall be in the form adopted and approved
by the Council, and shall be securely attached to the dash of
the automobile for hire licensed at all times when said vehicle
is in use.
The holder of an owner's permit may substitute one auto-
mobile in the place and stead of each licensed automobile, the
use of which has been discontinued, by making application to do
is so, and securing the approval of the City Council, and shall
not make any such substitution without such approval.
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Before granting such approval, the applicant shall fully
comply with the provisions of this ordinance relating to the
description and condition of an automobile in the first instance.
Upon granting such application the City Clerk shall endorse a
memorandum of such substitution upon the original owner's permit,
and also upon the license issued to the automobile, the use of
which has been discontinued. For each substitution such permit
holder shall pay to the City Clerk a fee of One Dollar."
SECTION 3. Section 10 of said Ordinance No. 324 is hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 9th day of June , 1958.
May or
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINtA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of 'Test Covina,
do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No.574 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 24th day of March , 1958. That,
thereafter, said ordinance 'was_7cmy adopted and T assed at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 9th day of June , 1958,
by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Heath, Brown, Pittenger, Barnes, Mayor Mottinger
NOES: Councilmen:. None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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City Clerk