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ORDINANCE NO. 947
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA AMENDING ARTICLE VI, CHAPTER 4,
SECTION 6430, OF THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE
PERTAINING TO TAXICAB RATES
THE CITY COL~CIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDA IN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Article VI, Chapter 4, Section 6430 of the Santa
Monica Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 6430. Maximum Charge. No person shall
charge, collect, demand, receive or arrange for any compensa-
tion 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.
Minimum and maximum rates or fares to be charged
the public by automobiles for hire and metered taxicabs oper-
ating over any street shall be and the same hereby are fixed
as follows:
(a) Seventy (70) 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.
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SECTION 2. The above rates shall not be placed in effect
until after the expiration of the Executive Order of the President of
the United States (issued on June 13, 1973) providing for a freeze on
all prices paid by the consumer; provided, however, that when an in-
crease in rates authorized herein is no longer prohibited by said
Order or any subsequent action by paramount authority, said rates
shall be placed in effect.
SECTION 3. 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 it 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 4. 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 fifteen
days after its adoption. This ordinance shall become effective after
thirty days from its adoption.
ADOPrED this 22nd day of
January, 1974. /
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELE S ) s s .
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
8th
day of
January
1974. that thereafter the said
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ordinance was duly adopted at a meeting of the City Council on the
22nd day of January 1974, by the following vote:
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AYES: Councilmen: Lawson, McCloskey, Swink,
Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Judson
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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