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ORDINANCE NO.
962 (GGS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING ARTICLE VI,
CHAPTER 4, 56430 OF THE SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO TAXICAB RATES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article VI, Chapter 4, S6430 of the
Santa Monica Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
S6430. MAXIMUM CHARGE. No person shall charge,
collect, demand, receive, or arrange for any compensat~on for
taxicab service or the service of any automobile for hire in
the City used for the conveyance of passengers, any amount,
rate, or compensation greater than the charges or rates
regulated by the City Council and established as hereinafter
set forth.
The maximum rates or fares to be charged the
public by metered taxicabs operating over any street shall
be and the same hereby are fixed as follows:
a) Eighty (80) cents for the first one-third
(1/3) mile or fraction thereof (flag drop) and twenty (20) cents
for each succeeding one-third (1/3) mile or fraction thereof.
b) Twenty (20) cents for each one and two-
thirds (1-2/3) minutes of waiting time when such waiting time
is at the request of the passenger hiring the cab.
c) Twenty (20) cents for each one and two-
thirds (1-2/3) minutes of traffic delay time.
It is the purpose and intent of the City Council
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of the City of Santa Monica that the first ten (IO) cents
of the fare of each trip undertaken by a metered taxicab is
authorized solely for the express purpose of offsetting~increased
fuel costs, and for no other purpose, and shall not be used
in any manner by any taxicab company in calculating or computing
its driver's compensation.
The maximum rates or fares to he charged the
public by automobiles for hire operating over any street shall
be and the same hereby are fixed as follows:
The maximum hourly rate of fare shall be
Twelve Dollars and Fifty ($12.50) Cents per hour allowing
maximum mileage of twelve (12) miles.
No rate shall be placed in effect, charged, demanded
or collected for automobiles for hire or taxicab service until
the City Council, after hearing upon its own motion, or upon
application, or upon complaint, shall have found and determined
said rate to be just, reasonable, non-discriminatory, non-
preferential, nor otherwise in violation of any provision
herein contained or any provision of law; nor until said rate
to be placed in effect, charged, demanded or collected shall
have been approved and established by the City Council. Said
City Council shall have power upon a hearing or upon its own
motion or upon complaints, to investigate a single rate or fare
or the entire schedule of rates in effect, charged, demanded,
or collected for automobiles for hire or taxicab service and
to establish a rate or schedule of rates in lieu thereof. Nothing
contained herein shall be construed to empower the said City
Council to approve or establish any rate or any schedule of
rates for automobiles for hire or taxicab service that will,
by means of rebate, discount, sale of script books, excursion
or commutation tickets, or otherwise, violate the minimum or
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maximum rate or the provisions contained in this section or
any provision of law.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance. The City
Council hereby declares that ~t would have passed this ordinance
and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase
hereof, irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid
or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk
shall attest to the passage of this ordinance. The City Clerk
shall cause the same to be published once in the official
newspaper within l5 days after its adoption. This ordinance
shall become effective after 30 days from its adoption.
ADOPTED and APPROVED this 23rd day of July
1974.
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STATE F CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City Council
on the ,~6th day of July
, 1974; that thereafter
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Council on the 23rd day of
July
the said ordinance was duly adop~ed at a meeting of the City
, 1974, by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen: Lawson, MCCloskey, Swink, Trives,
van den Steenhoven, Hoover
NOES: Councilmen: Judson
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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