Ordinance - 1340ORDINANCE NO. 1340
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTION 6333
OF, AND REPEALING SECTIONS 6329.1 AND 6342
OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO TAXICABS.
•The City Council of the City of West Covina does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 6333 of the West Covina Municipal
Code is amended to read:
"6333. TAXICAB DRIVER'S QUALIFICATIONS.
Applicant shall set forth in his application
and make satisfactory proof to the City Council that the applicant
comes fully within the following qualifications:
(a) Applicant shall be at least twenty-one years of
age and shall be an employee or a lessee of the holder of an owner's
permit to operate automobiles for hire upon the streets of the City.
(b) Applicant shall not have been convicted in the
courts of any State of the United States or in any United States Court
of any of the following offenses:
1. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence
of an intoxicant or narcotic. Applicant shall
also state what, if any, offenses he has been
convicted of under the California Vehicle Code.
2. Pandering.
• 3. Using, possessing, selling or transporting
narcotics.
4. Imparting knowledge for the obtaining of narcotics.
5. Assault and/or battery.
6. Any law or ordinance involving moral turpitude.
7. Violating any of the provisions of this Part.
(c) Applicant has been photographed and fingerprinted
by the Chief of Police.
(d) Applicant is otherwise a --fit and proper person to
be the driver of an automobile for hire, and the Chief of Police of the
City shall give such applicant an examination to determine his ability to
operate an automobile, and shall report his findings to the City Council,"
SECTION 2. Sections 6329.1 and 6342 of the West Covina
Municipal Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law.
Passed and approved this 23rd day of May 1977.
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Mayor
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Deputy City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
. CITY OF WEST COVINA )
Gloria. L. Da.vidsonx De uty
I,=sT-, City lerk of the City of West
Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1340
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 9th day of May ,
1977. That, thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed
at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 23rd day of
May 1977, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Miller, Chappell, :browne,-Tice, Shearer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
Deputy City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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