2004-94 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 34 - TRAFFIC - CHAPTER 60 - TAXICABS AND TAXI DRIVERS - CHAPTER 61 - LIVERY VEHICLES

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. B. No owner of a taxicab, operator or other employee or agent, shall solicit patronage of persons assembled at the termini of any common carrier, nor at intermediate points along any established route of such carrier, when such persons have so assembled far the purpose of using the service of such common carrier, nor shall they make a practice of following the established routes of such common carriers. This rule is not intended to prohibit, or interfere with response to any call for taxicabs, made by telephone or by signal from a pedestrian, or from accepting patronage of debarking passengers of any such common carrier. 26. DRUGS, ALCOHOL. Any driver of a taxicab, while on duty as such driver, found to have any amount of alcohol, cannabis, or controlled substance (as defined in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act) within his or her system, shall, upon conviction therefor, be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and his or her taxicab driver's license shall be revoked in addition thereto. Any driver of a taxicab while on duty as such driver, found to be impaired in his or her ability to safely operate a motor vehicle as a result of the presence of any amount of a drug, compound, or substance in his or her system, whether taken pursuant to the direction of a licensed physician or not, shall upon conviction therefor, be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and his or her taxicab driver's license shall be revoked in addition thereto. 27. HORNS. Unnecessary, loud, or continuous blowing of the horn is prohibited. 28. USE OF TAXI FOR UNLAWFUL ACT. It shall be unlawful for any licensed river or operator of any vehicle, to misrepresent the name of his employer, or to knowingly receive or transport any person, or persons, who intend to commit any unlawful act in said vehicle during the trip or at the termination thereof, whether within