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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> with the rendering of service to the public under this <br /> franchise; <br /> <br /> (c) To make such other rules and regulations as may be <br /> reasonably necessary to facilitate adequate service to be <br /> rendered to the public under this franchise, any such rules <br /> and regulations when adopted to be binding upon the grantee <br /> herein. <br /> Section 14. Motor vehicles operated by grantee under <br /> this franchise shall be known as "public service vehicles" <br /> and when not in use in the exercise of the privileges granted <br /> herein each of such vehicles shall be stationed or parked at <br /> the headquarters of the grantee herein, which headquarters <br /> shall be located on private property. <br /> Section 15. The word "taxicabs" as used in this <br /> ordinance sha11 mean any passenger vehicle with not more than <br /> two seats and a normal capacity not in excess of six persons, <br /> which is not operated over a fixed route or routes and which <br /> is engaged for the purpose of carrying a passenger or <br /> passengers, by special trips to and from specified addresses <br /> as designated by any such passenger or passengers. <br /> Section 16. That the grantee shall promptly pay all <br /> lawful ad valorem taxes, and such other levies and assess- <br /> ments, if any, that may be lawfully imposed upon it. Failure <br /> to pay any of such charges or either of them shall be deemed <br /> a breach of the privilege granted herein and the City, upon <br /> the happening of such event, may declare the rights of the <br /> grantee hereunder forfeited for such breach. <br /> Section 17. This grant is made upon the express <br /> conditions that the nonexercise ot the power to regulate <br /> rates and charges which the grantee may charge to the public <br /> in the operation of its business shall never be construed as <br /> an acquiescence or recognition of the justness or correctness <br /> of said grantee's established rate, and that so long as the <br /> governing body of the City of Paris does not exercise its <br /> legislative and governmental power to tix and regulate the <br /> rates that the grantee herein shall charge to the public, the <br /> question of property values used and useful in the rendering <br /> of the service prior to rate regulation shall never stop the <br /> City from determining the real or actual value of property <br /> used or useful in rendering such service. If, and when, the <br /> City Council or other governing body shall exercise the power <br /> to fix the rates to be charged for such service in the City <br /> of Paris no allowance in the way of said rate shall be made <br /> as compensation for any property used or consumed in <br /> rendering the service by the grantee herein for such service. <br /> If, and when, the City Council decides to regulate rates, <br /> then at such time the Council will fully exercise its rate <br /> regulatory power under the provisions of law applicable <br /> thereto, and the failure to provide under this ordinance the <br /> machinery for the administrative, legislature or executive <br /> control of such matter shall not preclude the Council from <br /> fully exercising that power c1TId providing suitable provisions <br /> to enforce such power. <br /> Section 18. Should it be determined that any clause, <br /> condition, or covenant of this franchise is, for any reason, <br /> illegal or unenforceable, such clause, condition or covenant <br /> shall be disregarded and the existence of the same shall not <br /> affect the remaining clauses, canditions or covenants of this <br /> franchise. <br /> Section 19. That any unwarranted and intentional <br /> neglect, failure or refusal of said grantee to comply with <br /> any of the conditions and stipulations contained in said <br />