§ 270-8. Rules and regulations; taxi stands; solicitation of passengers.

A. 

The Mayor and Council may establish, by resolution, rules and regulations relating to the operation of taxicabs/autocabs and the conduct of licensees. A copy of the rules and regulations shall be furnished to each licensee.

B. 

Taxi stands. No person shall park or place any taxicab/autocab on any of the streets of the Borough at any time except at such place or places as the Mayor and Council may, by resolution, from time to time designate as Borough taxi stands.

C. 

Prohibited solicitation of passengers. No person shall cruise the streets of the Borough with any taxicab at any time for the purpose of soliciting passengers.

D. 

No taxicab driver or other person shall solicit, attempt to solicit or otherwise seek to engage a passenger of any public street and/or sidewalk in the Borough.

E. 

Refusal to carry certain passengers. Every person so licensed as aforesaid shall not refuse to carry local fares or passengers unless the fare or passenger is unruly or intoxicated

F. 

Owners and drivers of taxicabs/autocabs licensed out of the jurisdiction of the Borough, and who have their principal office or place of business out of the jurisdiction of the Borough, shall be allowed to enter into the Borough on a specific call while in the process of discharging a passenger transported from outside of the Borough limits to a point within the Borough limits or picking up a passenger in the Borough as a result of having been specifically called to do so by the prospective passenger. Drivers of such taxicabs/autocabs shall not cruise on the streets of the Borough at any time for the purpose of soliciting passengers, nor shall they in the nighttime or other periods of darkness, when in the Borough, permit any advertising lights on the taxicab to remain lighted.