2026 ORD AMENDING ORDINANCE NO 1953 SECTION 6 TO PROVIDE FOR FRANCHISE TAX OF $50 PER VEHICLE USED IN OPERATION OF TAXICAB BUSINESS

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ORDINANCE NO. 2026 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1953, SFCTION 6, TO PROVIDE FOR A FRANCHISE TAX OF $50.00 PER VEHIRI' UNGITHE E OPERATION OF THE TAXICAB BUSINESS; SECTION 9, ES2UIRI HOLDER OF THE FRANCHISE LIABILITY INSURANCE TO BE CONDITIONED ON PAYMENT DIRBCTLY TO EVERY JUDGMFNT CREDITOR, RATHER 'rHAN PAYING TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PARIS FOR THE BENEFIT OF JUDGMENT CREDITORS, AND REQUIRING A COPY OF THE INSURANCE PO- LICY, WITH AMENDMFNTS, TO BE MAINTAINED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF PARIS; AND SECTION 12, BY DELETING AND REDESIGNATING SUB-PARAGRAPH (d) AS SUB- SUB-PARAGRAPH (c) PARAGRAPH (c REPEALING ALL ORDINANCFS OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEFZEWITH; AND PROVIDING FOR AN F~FECTIVE DATE OF JULy l, 1971. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS : Section l. That Sections 6 and 9 of Ordirmce No. 1953 of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, be amended so that such shall read as follows: "Section 6. The grantees shall, during the life of this franchise, pay to the City of Paris at the office of the City Clerk in laeTU Vehicle usedhinUtheed States a sum equal to $50.00 p operation of said taxicab business, which remittance shall be made annually on or before the lOth day of July each year. The payments stipulated and provided in this section shall be in lieu of any other tax or assessment or charge by the City of Paris which may now or may hereafter be in force during the term of this franchise, excluding only ad valorem taxes. Any neglect, omission or refusal by the grantees herein to pay such tax when due and as specified, shall ipso facto work a forfeiture of this franchise and of all rights hereunder." "Section 9. At all times during the effective period of this franchise grantees shall have procured and kept in full force and effect policy or policies of public liability insurance, covering each motor vehicle to be operated and operated under this fran- chise, conditioned that the holder of thefranchise ment shall well and truly pay directly to every jud9 cre.ditor who has been injured through the negligent operation of any such motor vehicle by the grantees or their employees, or whose property has been da- maged, any amount or amounts of money that shall have been awarded by final judgment of any court of com- petent jurisdiction against such grantees on account of any such injury or damage, not exceeding for bodily injury or death to any one person the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or the sum of Z~venty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00) for all persons injured in any one accident or occasion, anty damages Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000 00) for proper arising out of any one accident or occasion. Any such