Los Angeles Municipal Code § 71.06 Application for Driver and Ambulance Attendant Permits

(Amended by Ord. No. 173,901, Eff. 5/31/01.)

Every applicant for a driver permit or an attendant permit shall file with the Department an application upon a form furnished by the Department, containing such information as is required by the rules and regulations of the Board. Any money due the Department of Transportation by any applicant for a driver or attendant permit including money owed for outstanding parking tickets or other fines assessed by the Department, must be paid, or the matter otherwise resolved to the satisfaction of the Department, prior to the issuance of such permit. Every application for a driver permit or an attendant permit shall be accompanied by a non refundable processing fee in the amount specified in Section 71.06.1 or Section 71.06.2.

Each applicant for a taxicab driver permit must also be issued an identification badge and shall pay a non refundable processing fee in the amount specified in Section 71.06.1.

Every application for a driver permit for a non- motorized vehicle shall be accompanied by a non refundable processing fee in the amount specified in Section 71.06.1.

The Board may require an applicant to furnish via live-scan capture or on forms prescribed by the Board, the fingerprints of the applicant. A non refundable fingerprint processing fee in the amount specified in Section 71.06.1, which is in addition to the application processing fee, shall accompany the application for which fingerprint processing is required.

Upon approval of the application, the Department shall issue to the permittee a conditional permit in the form prescribed by the Board, pending receipt of applicant’s criminal history record. If such record proves to be satisfactory to the Department, the permit issued shall no longer be considered conditional.

Notwithstanding Sections 71.07, 71.08 and 71.09 hereof, falsification of an application for driver permit shall be grounds for immediate cancellation of a permit and/or denial of an application for a permit by the Department.

(Amended by Ord. No. 187,449, Eff. 3/5/22.)

The Department shall collect the following fees for processing the indicated permit applications or providing the indicated items:

New Company Application Fee $4,463.00 Initial and Renewal Company Permit Fee $1,081.00 Initial and Renewal Taxicab Vehicle Permit Fee $304.00 (Per Vehicle) Initial Vehicle Inspection and Decal - Taxicab $237.00 (Per Vehicle)

Annual Vehicle Inspection - Taxicab $174.00 (Per Vehicle) Annual Technology Fee $100.00 (Per Vehicle) Initial Driver or Attendant Permit $98.00 Driver or Attendant Permit Renewal $104.00 Identification Badge $9.00 Driver or Attendant Permit Replacement (For Lost Permits, $112.00 Name Changes, or Company Transfer) $107.00 (Includes costs paid directly to Fingerprint Processing the Department of Justice for Processing)

(Re-added by Ord. No. 171,247, Eff. 9/27/96.)

Upon request to the Department of Transportation with respect to matters involving the regulation of vehicles defined in Section 71.00, the Department may assign staff to provide services outside of normal working hours, subject to payment to the City of its costs as hereinafter provided:

(a) Each such request must be received by the Department no less than one week prior to the time for which services are requested.

(b) In each such instance the Department of Transportation shall charge and collect the total costs of Departmental work, services, and materials provided outside of normal working hours.

(c) Prior to the Department proceeding pursuant to any such request, the applicant requesting services outside of normal working hours shall deposit with the City that sum estimated by the Department to be sufficient to pay the City for all City costs with respect thereto.

(d) The deposit may vary in amount from time to time depending upon the scope of the costs and expenses reasonably anticipated as necessary to provide the work, services, and materials to be used for the services requested, provided that the estimated sum required to be deposited shall be based upon and not be inconsistent with the actual costs of similar work done by, and materials used by, the Department in the regular course of its duties.

(e) The Department shall estimate the amount of the deposit in conformity with a schedule adopted by the General Manager on a semiannual or less frequent basis which sets forth and applies then current salary schedules and verifiable time and materials costs of the City with respect to those types of Departmental activities. The schedule shall be kept on file by the Department and be available to any applicant depositor at the time an application is made or as otherwise requested.

(f) Money received as a deposit from an applicant shall be deposited into the Department of Transportation Trust Fund and shall be transferred to the General Fund to first reimburse the Departmental costs incurred in providing services and materials referred to in Subsection (b) above for the applicant- depositor.

(g) As a condition to the Department proceedings set forth above, any deposit accepted pursuant to this section shall be adjusted at the completion of the services requested to conform to actual costs as follows:

1. In the event actual costs incurred by the City are less than the deposit received by the City, the applicant shall be entitled to reimbursement of the excess from the deposit; and

2. In the event the costs exceed the sum on deposit, all such additional costs shall be paid by the applicant-depositor to the City upon demand.

(Added by Ord. No. 180,541, Eff. 3/28/09.)

The Department of Transportation shall provide an annual review of the vehicle and driver permitting fees designated in Section 71.06.1, subsections (a) through (s), and shall submit recommendations for changes in these fees for special services to the Council, as follows:

(a) By May 1st of each odd numbered year, the Department shall provide a comprehensive study of fees for services, and shall provide a report and proposed draft ordinance to the Mayor and the City Council detailing any requested changes in the fees for special services for any particular item listed in Section 71.06.1. The comprehensive study shall include: 1) measurement of the average salary increase in effect for all vehicle-for-hire staff members from the previous calendar year; 2) measurement of changes in material, equipment and contract costs related to any and all fee-for-service items; 3) adjustment of any changes required in the amount of personnel time necessary to complete any fee-for-service activity; and 4) current indirect costs for labor provided by the City’s Cost Allocation Plan. Cost figures shall be compared to the current baseline established for each fee. Recommended fee changes shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar. The recommended fee changes shall be requested to take effect beginning July 1st of the reporting year.

(b) By May 1st of each even numbered year, the Department shall provide a proposal for adjustment of fees for services, and shall provide a report and proposed draft ordinance to the Mayor and the City Council detailing any requested changes in the fees for service for any particular item listed in Section 71.06.1. The adjustment shall include a measurement of the average salary increase in effect for all vehicle-for- hire staff members from the previous calendar year. Current indirect costs for labor derived from the City’s Cost Allocation Plan also shall be included as part of the adjustment and assessment report. Cost figures shall be compared to the current baseline established for each fee. Recommended fee changes shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar. The recommended fee changes shall be requested to take effect beginning July 1st of the reporting year.