Article I — General

"Driver" means any person in charge of, driving or operating any taxicab, as herein described, either as an agent, employee, or otherwise.

"Owner" means any person, firm or corporation having use or control of any taxicab, as herein described, whether as owner, lessee or otherwise.

"Taxicab" means an automobile or other motor-propelled vehicle used in the transportation of passengers for hire over the public highways of the unincorporated area of the county of Alameda and not over a defined route or upon a fixed schedule.

(Prior gen. code § 2-52.0—2-52.2)

It shall be unlawful for any owner to drive, operate, or cause or permit to be driven or operated, any taxicab in the unincorporated area of the county without maintaining ability to respond in damages as required by Section 16500 VC of the Vehicle Code.

(Prior gen. code § 2-52.3)

The driver of every taxicab shall keep a separate waybill of every service rendered as 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 such taxicab shall keep said waybills in his office files for a period of ninety (90) days after date of service rendered and the same shall at all times be open to examination by any authorized representative of the sheriff. The falsifying of any waybill by an owner or by a driver shall be grounds for revocation of his permit.

(Prior gen. code § 2-52.4)

Every taximeter used by any taxicab in the unincorporated territory of the county of Alameda shall be of a type and design approved by the sheriff and shall be so located in the taxicab as to render its figures visible to the passengers. No other fare shall be charged than is recorded on such taximeter. Such taximeters shall be subject to inspection from time to time by the sheriff and the sheriff shall compel the owner to discontinue to calculate inaccurately, until such taximeter shall be replaced with one approved by the sheriff or shall be adjusted to his satisfaction.

Every taxicab operating in a city which has a local ordinance requiring a taximeter shall use the taximeter and charge the fares required in such city when going into the unincorporated areas of the county of Alameda. If on any such trip the owner shall impose a surcharge or excess mileage charge over and above the meter rate, such surcharge or excess mileage charge shall not be in excess of the surcharge or excess mileage charge established by the owner and posted in the vehicle in the passenger compartment.

(Prior gen. code § 2-52.5)

The owner of every taxicab shall at all times keep on file with the sheriff an up-to-date schedule of rates of fares charged for carrying passengers, which rates shall be approved by the sheriff before becoming effective, and it shall be unlawful to charge other than the schedule of rates of fares, surcharges or excess mileage charges filed with the sheriff.

The driver of any taxicab shall give a receipt, upon request of any passenger, for the fare paid by such passenger.

(Prior gen. code § 2-52.6)

Every taxicab shall have conspicuously displayed in full view of the passenger, or passengers, a card not less than two inches by four inches in size which shall have stated thereon the name of the owner, the address and telephone number of the business, the owner's identification number of such vehicle and also the rates of fares to be charged for the use of such vehicle.

(Prior gen. code § 2-52.7)