07 Lone Star Cab Co Franchise Ordinance

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(3) To make such other rules and regulations as may be reasonably necessary to facilitate clean and professional taxicab service to be rendered to the public under this franchise, any such rules and regulations, when adopted, to be binding upon the Grantees herein. Section 14. That motor vehicles operated by Grantees under this franchise shall be known as "taxicabs" and, when not in use in the exercise of the privileges granted herein, shall be stationed or parked at the headquarters of the Grantees, which headquarters shall be located on private property . Section 15. That the word "taxicab," as used in this ordinance, shall mean any passenger vehicle with not more than three rows of seats and a normal capacity not in excess of seven passengers which is not operated over a fixed route or routes and which is engaged for the purpose of carrying a passenger, or passengers, by special trips to and from specified addresses as designated by any such passenger or passengers. Section 16. That the Grantees shall promptly pay all lawful ad valorem taxes and such other levies and assessments, if any, that may be lawfully imposed upon them. Failure to pay any of such charges, or either of them, shall be deemed a breach of the privilege granted herein, and the City, upon the happening of such event, may declare the rights ofthe Grantees hereunder forfeited for such breach. Section 17. This grant is made upon the express condition that the non-exercise of the power to regulate rates and charges which the Grantees may charge to the public in the operation of their business shall never be construed as an acquiescence or recognition of the justness or correctness of said Grantees' established rate, and that, so long as the City Council of the City of Paris does not exercise its legislative and governmental power to fix and regulate the rates that the Grantees shall charge to the public, the question of property values used and useful in the rendering of the service prior to rate regulation shall never stop the City from determining the real or actual value of property used or useful in rendering such service. If, and when, the City Councilor other governing body shall exercise the power to fix the rates to be charged for such service in the City of Paris, no allowance in the way of said rate shall be made as compensation for any property used or consumed in rendering the service by the Grantees for such service. If, and when, the City Council decides to regulate rates, then, at such time, the Council will fully exercise its rate regulatory power under the provisions oflaw applicable thereto, and the failure to provide under this ordinance the machinery for the administration, legislative, or executive control of such matter shall not preclude the Council from fully exercising that power and providing suitable provisions to enforce such power. Section 18. That any unwarranted and intentional neglect, failure, or refusal of the Grantees to comply with any of the conditions and stipulations contained in this franchise shall thereupon immediately, ipso facto, effect a forfeiture hereof, and the City Council may, thereupon, declare this franchise forfeited and may exclude the Grantees from further use of the streets of the city under this franchise, and the Grantees shall thereupon and immediately surrender all rights in and to the same, and this franchise shall become null and void and of no effect. Section 19. That the grant ofthis franchise shall be and is hereby expressly conditioned upon the right of the City Council to adopt an ordinance or ordinances regulating the activities authorized herein, and upon adoption of said ordinance or ordinances, the City Council reserves the right at its discretion to supersede this ordinance with the requirements of said regulatory ordinance or ordinances, even if the term of this ordinance has not expired. Page 4 of 5 r"r-.