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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> subservient to the right of the City Council of the City of <br /> Paris to fully exercise its rights or control over said <br /> streets, alleys and public ways. <br /> Section 6. The grantee shall, during the life of <br /> this franchise, pay to the City of Paris at the office of <br /> the City Clerk in lawful money of the United States, a sum <br /> equal to $50.00 per vehicle used in the operation of said <br /> taxicab business, which remittance shall be made annually on <br /> or before the lOth day of December each year. The payments <br /> stipulated and provided in this section shall be in lieu of <br /> any other tax or assessment or charge by the City of Paris <br /> which may now or may hereafter be in force during the term <br /> of this franchise, excluding only ad valorem taxes. <br /> Any neglect, omission or refusal by the grantee herein <br /> to pay such tax when due and specified, shaii ipso facto <br /> work a forfeiture of this franchise and of all rights <br /> hereunder. <br /> Section 7. The City of Paris expressly reserves the <br /> right to modify, amend, alter, change or eliminate any of <br /> the provisions of this franchise, during the life of the <br /> same, for the following purposes, to-wit: <br /> (1) To eliminate or delete from the same such <br /> conditions as then prove obsolete or impractical; <br /> <br /> (2) To impose such additional conditions upon the <br /> grantee as may be just and reasonable, such conditions to be <br /> those as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of insuring <br /> adequate service to the public. <br /> Section 8. Notwithstanding what may be said in any <br /> other portion of this instrument with reference to the <br /> termination thereof, this right is granted subject to the <br /> provisions of Article 1, Section 17 and 26 of the Consti- <br /> tution of the State, the applicable state laws, charter <br /> provisions and such future laws as may be enacted by the <br /> Legislature, or amendments to the Constitution and the <br /> Charter of the City of Paris. Furthermore, the City Council <br /> of the City of Paris reserves the absolute right upon notice <br /> and a hearing, which said notice shall be given to the <br /> grantee not less than thirty (30 ) days before such hearing, <br /> to absolutely terminate this grant for any violations of the <br /> terms and provisions of this ordinance. <br /> Section 9. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for <br /> the grantee, its officers, agents or employees, operating <br /> any automobile for hire within the City of Paris, to cruise. <br /> Cruising shall consist of seeking, searching or soliciting <br /> employment while operating an automobile for hire, by <br /> repeatedly and persistently driving such automobile for hire <br /> to and fro on the public streets of the City of Paris and <br /> offering accommodations thereof to prospective passengers, <br /> either by signal, word of mouth or by carrying a sign with <br /> the word "Vacant" thereon, or some other word of similar <br /> import or otherwise or in any manner whatsoever operating <br /> said vehicle upon the public streets of the City of Paris <br /> for the purpose of soliciting passengers or driving an <br /> automobile for hire upon the public streets while unoccupied <br /> by a passenger without having a fixed destination thereof. <br /> Section 10. At all times during the effective period <br /> of this franchise grantee shall have procured and kept in <br /> full force and effect policy or policies of public liability <br /> insurance, covering each motor vehicle to be operated and <br /> operated under this franchise, conditioned that the holder <br />