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ORDINANCE NO.
993. (CCS)
(City Counc~l Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ~lliNDING ARTICLE VI,
CHAPTER 4, SECTION 6430 OF THE SA~TA
MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO
TAXICAB RATES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOHS:
SECTION 1.
Article VI, Chapter 4, Section 6430
of the Santa Monlca Mun~cipal Code lS hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 6430.
~~XIMUM CHARGE. No person shall
charge, collect, demand, rece~ve, or arrange for any compensatlon
for tax~cab service or the serVlce of any automobile for hlre in
the Clty used for the conveyance of passengers. any amount, rate,
or compensatlon greater than the charges or rates regulated by
the Clty Councl1 and established as hereinafter set forth.
The maximum rates or fares to be charged the
publ~c by metered taxlcabs operatlng over any street shall be
and the same hereby are fixed as follows:
a) Eighty (80) cents for the first one-
fourth (1/4) mile or fraction thereof (flag drop) and twenty
(20) cents for each succeed~ng one-fourth (1/4) ~~le or fractlon
thereof.
b) Twenty (20) cents for each one and two-
thirds (1 2/3) m~nutes of wa~ting time when such walt~ng time is
at the request of the passenger hlrlng the cab.
c) ~venty (20) cents for each one and two-
thirds (1 2/3) mlnutes of trafflC delay tlme.
It is the purpose and intent of the City
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Councl1 of the C~ty of Santa Mon1ca that the flrst ten (10) cents
of the fare of each trip undertaken by a metered taxicab 15
authorized solely for the express purpose of offsetting increased
fuel costs, and for no other purpose and shall not be used ln
any manner by any tax~cab company in calculating or computing
its driver's compensation.
The maximum rates or fares to be charged the
publlC by automobiles for hire operatlng 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 allOWlng maximum
mileage of twelve (12) miles.
No rate shall be placed ln effect, charged,
demanded or collected for hlre or taxicab service until the
City Council, after hearing upon its own motion, or upon
appl~cation, or upon cornpla~nt, shall have ,found and determlned
said rate to be just, reasonable, non-discriminatory, non-
preferential, nor otherwise in vlolation of any provls~on herein
contained or any provlSlon of law; nor until sald rate to be
placed in effect, charged, demanded or collected shall have
been approved and estab12shed by the Clty Council. Sa~d City
Councll shall have power upon a hear~ng or upon ~ts own motion
or upon complalnts, to investigate a single rate or fare or the
entire schedule of rates in effect, charged, demanded, or collected
for automob~les for hire or tax~cab service and to establlsh a
rate or schedule of rates ~n lieu thereof. Nothlng contained
herein shall be construed to empower the sald Clty Council to
approve or establ~sh any rate or any schedule of rates for
automobiles for hlre or taxicab serv~ce that will, by means of
rebate, dlscount, sale of script books, excursion or commutation
tickets, or otherwlse, violate the IDlnimum or maximum rate or
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the prov~slons contalned ~n th~s sect~on or any prOV~Slon of law.
SECTION 2.
If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase of thlS ordlnance is for any reason held to be
~nvalid or unconst~tutlonal by a dec~sion of any court of
competent Jur~sd~ctlon, such dec~s~on shall not affect the
val~dlty of the remaining portions of the ord1nance. The C~ty
Council hereby declares that it would have passed thlS ordinance
and each sect~on, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof,
~rrespectlve of the fact that anyone or More sectlons, sub-
sectlons, sentences, clauses or ohrases be declared inval~d or
unconstitutlonal.
SECTION 3.
The Mayor shall s~gn and the C~ty Clerk
shall attest to the passaqe of thlS ordinance. The Clty Clerk
shall cause the same to be publ~shed once in the officlal
newspaper w~thin 15 days after ~ts adoptlon. The ordinance
shall become effect~ve after 30 days from its adopt~on.
ADOPTED and APPROVED thlS
day of
March
18th
1975.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
I do hereby cert~fy that the foregoing ordinance was
duly and regularly introduced at a meetinq of the Clty Counell
on the
day of
March
, 1975: that there-
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City council on the
18th day of
}1arch
after the sald ordlnance was duly adopted at a meeting of the
, 1975,
by the fo11owlng vote:
AYES:
Councilmen: Judson, Lawson, McCloskey, Swink,
van den Steenhoven, Trives
NOES:
Councllmen: None
ABSENT:
Councllmen: Hoover
APPR6~ AS TO FO~1:
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TO:
Mayor and C~ty Councll
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SUBJECT:
Tax1.cab Rates
THlS r ~'iJ2T at.
rETUf.:S"'') TO TH!
CITY Ci. ..'S O;:;'I,;~
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Introdu:::.:t1.on
The s~-~~ Monica Cab Company, Inc. has applied to the Clty for a general
incre~s~ ~n tax1.cab rates. Tn1.s l.TIcrease, l.f approved, will regu1.re re-
V1.S1.0~ ~= Santa Mon1.ca Mun1.Clpal Code Sect1.on No. 6830 as amended by city
Ordl-::3.:-__ -= '';0. 962 (CCS} adopted July 23, 1974 (copy attached) .
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The L~~~~~~~ l.u ~a~_ Lj =~tes provlded under Ord1.nance No. 962 was for the
l1Itll-:~': ;. ~-cse .::: -. ~ ... ~~ g the operator to offset increased fuel costs to
the ex:--:;::.: :::= ::I:E'
.~~ (10) cents of fare for each trip. This ten {I D)
cent-.>
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_:~ calculat1.ng driver compensatlon.
The most recent
gene=~: ~~~e ~4C~~~~~ ~~5 author1.zed by C~ty Ordinance No. 947 adopted Jan-
uary 2~, :974, ~~c~~c~~.q Section No. 6430 of the Municlpal Code (copy attached).
The S~~~3 ~on~ca C~ CO~?~~y's operatlng expenses have lncreased substant~ally
s~nce the last general lncrease was authorlzed. Slnce July, Lhe operat1.ng ex-
penses of the Santa t~niea Cab Co. have far surpassed the increase granted at
that tlffie. Durlng the past three months (October, Novewber and Dec~~er) the
Sa~ta Monica Cab Company's dlrect expenses (wages, gas and oil, car lnsurance,
ete) have lncreased s~x percent (6%) and ~ndlrect expenses (supervlslon, offlce
expenses, taxes, util~tles, etc) have 1ncreased thirty-s~x percent (36%). The
resultlng overall lncrease 1.h operatlng expenses amounts to ten percent (10%).
7a~lnq luto acco~qt the current rate of ~nflatlon (12%), lr th~s trend con-
t~nues there w~ll be lncreases 1.n costs a~ountlng to forty percent (40%) for
Sa.'1.ta Monlca Cab COr:\pany's fiscal year, October thru September: Of c;ourse,
any further Lncrease Ln the rate of LnflatLon wlll result In more than a forty
percent (40t) ~ncrease for the year.
Our staff has4!!nsulted w1th the st~ff of the Los Angeles Boartltf Pub1~c
Ut111t1es and Transportat1on wh1ch has recommended and passed by ord1nance
a general 'increase to tax1Cab compan~es franchlzed by the City of Los Angeles.
The rate recommended and passed ~s $1.30 for the first mile and $.70 for the
second and subsequent m11es. The Los Angeles staff has a substantial amount
of ex~er~Lse 1n analyz~ng tax~cab rate 1ncrease requests. The rate being
reco~~~~eC below (alternate 1) has been requested by the taxicab companies
franch::.~c:: ~n Los Angeles Clty and 1S under study by their Board of Publl.c
Utlll~_2s. The rates estab11shed III Los Angeles are used only as a gUl.de
in aS3~_":_:; Santa Menica. 1n settl.ng tax1Cab rates. It t-lOuld not be real-
1stlC t,j -i~::e2t th~ ~-~::,=5 t.hey establl.sh wl.thout consideratl.on for the Sl.ze
of tJ1.€ :: -~';:'-;:J..see;s __ r~_ .1q.j. Los Angeles estab11shes rates primarily for
Yellow
",-:::i .~ a.~c ~, ~~' ~=~er Cab. Yellow Cab has 700 shifts per day oper-
at~ng ;.-~-~~ "'- -':';:>':3:
. -'..,. _ _--evenue of $15,800,000 and Val1.ey Checker Cab
has 83 ~~;~~5 pe~ ~~. ~==~ting w~th a total annual revenue of $1,200,000.
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total
a~:l~al reve:1U~
';634,000.
Therefore, Santa Monica Cab has only
4% and SQ% ~espectlv~ly of the dollar volume of Yellow Cab and valley Checker
Cab. The staff flnds that cer~aln costs assoclated with tax1Cab operatl.ons
are affected by the s~ze of the operat~on (overhead, volume bUYlng, lnsurance
pr~~~ums, etc}. The blgger operat1on provldes a larger base over whlch to
spread overhead and 1nsurance prenlums, and ~ore potentlal for vol~~e buy~ng.
Therefore, the staff feels that the Santa Monica Cab is not dlrectly comparable
to those cab companles In Los fu.geles C~ty but that the rates developed for
Los &~geles 1S a gU1de to be used to prohlblt Santa Monlea from settlng ex-
cesslvely h~gher or lower rates than our ne~ghborlng munlcipalltles.
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Compar~son of Rates
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Los Angeles
Santa Monica
1st nile
2nd Hl.le
1st M11e
2nd Mile
EX.l.stl.ng Rates
1.30
.70
1.20
.60
Requested Rates
1.40
.80
1.40
.80
AIL:er'"la.-:.:.-:;-es
I. ~~?~ove rates wh1ch call for a 16.7% increase 1n the first m11et a
_~_3~ ~ncrease ~n second and subsequent mlles, or a 25% overall in-
~~ase based on ~he 1974 average tr~p of 3.07 miles per trlp. These
~~~S have ~e~~ ~;p~oved 1n Culver C1ty for the same cab company.
First Ml.le
Subsequent Miles
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.60
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1.40
.80
2. ~~=ove r3~~~ ~r_~~ call for an 8.3% lncrease 1n the flrst fille, a
:S.;~ incr~~~~ >~ ~he second and subsequent ffille, or a 12.7% over-
a:: lncreasa ~a5ed on the 1974 average tr1p of 3.07 mlles per trip.
First Nlle
Subsequ~nt Mlles
Old Rate
1.20
.60
New Rate
1.30
.70
Re.conmendatlon
The staff recommends alternate n~~er 1. This rate should allow Santa Malllea
Cab Co:npa...'1.Y to operate effect1vely and to glve the management some smal~ rate
of return on the~r lnves~~ent. ThlS lncrease lS cons1dered by staff to be
ad~~ate for the current year, absent any narked ~ncrease In the rate of
.lnflation.
Prepared by: J. E. CO~'1.o11y
r. A. W.lIson
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ORDINANCE
NO 962. (ees)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDIl'i ANCE OF THE
CITY COUNClL OF THE
CITY 0 F SANTA
MO~ICA A:\oIENDING
ARTICLE VI, CHAPTER
4 ~6430 OF THE SANTA
MONICA MUI\ICIPAL
CODE PERTAI~ING TO
TAXICAB RATES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS
SECTIO~ 1 Article VI
Chapter 4, Q6430'of the Sanb
Momca MUniCIpal Code is
hereby amended to read as
follows
~6430 MAXIMUM
CHARGE No person
shall charge. collect. de-
mand. receive. or arrange
for anv compensatiOn for
taxicab service or the ser-
vice of any automobile for
hire m the City used for
the conveyance of passen-
gers. any amount. rate. or
compensatIOn greater
than the charges or rates
regulated bv the City
Council and estabhshed as
heremafter set forth
The maximum rates or
fares to be charged the
public by metered tax-
Icabs operatmg over any
street shall be and the
same herebv are flxed as
follows .
a} Eighty (80) cents for
the hrst one-third (1f3)
mile or fraction thereof
(flag drop) and twenty
i 20} cents for each suc-
ceeding one-third (113)
mile or fractIOn thereof
bl Twenty (20) cents faT
each one and two-thirds
(F'::) mmutes of waltmg
tIme when such waibng
tIme IS at the request 01
the passenger hmng the
cab
c) Twenty (20) cents for
each one and two-thirds
( 12,'1) mmutes of traffiC
delay time
It IS the purpose and In-
tent of the City CounCil of
the City of Santa MODIca
that the first ten (10)
cents of the fare of each
tnp unde rtaken by a
metered taXicab is
a uthonzed solely for the
express purpose of offset-
tmg IDcreased fuel costs,
and for no other purpose
and shall not be used I~
any manner by any tax-
Icab company m calculat-
Ing or compllhng ItS
driver's comperlsatlOn
The ma~nmum rates or
fares to be charged the
pubhc by automobiles for
hire operatmg over any
street shall fie and the
same hereby are fixed as
follows
The maximum hourly
ra te of fare sh all be
Twelve Dollars and FIfty
($1250) Cents per hour
allOWIng maXImum
mileage of twelve (12)
miles
No rate shall be placed
In effect, charged. de-
manded or collected for
hire or taXicab service un-
tIl the City Council after
hearmg upon its oWn mo-
hon, or upon appl1cation,
or upon complamt, shall
have found and detenmD-
ed saId rate to be Just.
reasonable, non-dIS-
criminatory. nonpreferen-
hal, nor otherWIse 10
ViOlatIon of any prOVISion
herem con tamed or any'
prOViSIOn of law, nor until
said ra te to be placed In
effect, charged, demand-
ed or collected shall have
been approved and estab-
lished by the City CounCIL
Said City Council shall
have power upon a hear-
Ing or upon Its own motIon
or upon complamts, to in-
vestIgate a smgle rate or
fare or the entIre schedule
of rates 10 effect, charg-
ed, demanded, or col-
lected for automobiles for
hire or taxicab serVIce
and to establish a rate or
schedule of rates 10 heu
thereof Nothmg contam-
ed herem shall be con-
strued to empower the
saId CIty CouncIl to ap-
prove 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
mmImum or maXImum
ra te or the prOViSIOns con-
tamed In thiS sectIon or
any provIsion of law
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SECTION 2 If any section.
subsectlOn. sentence. clause
or phrase of thIS ordmance IS
for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstItutiOnal
bv a deciSIon of any court
of competent Junsdl~ctlOn.
such decISIon shall not affect
the vahdlty of the remammg
portiOns of the ordmance
The Cltv counCIl hereby
declares -that it would have
passed thiS ordmance and
each sectIOn, subsectIOn.
sentence, clause or phrase
hereof, Irrespecuve of the
fact that anyone or more
secl1ons. subsectIOns, sen.
tences, clauses or phrases be
declared lDvahd or un-
constltutIonal
SECTION 3. The Mayor
shall SIgn and the CIty Clerk
shall attest to the ~sage of
thls ordmance. The City
Clerk shall cause the same to
be publIshed once ID the
OffiCIal newspa~r wlthm 15
days after its adoptIOn The
ordInance shall become
effective after 30 days from
its adoptI~E:
ADOPTED and APPROV-
ED this 23rd day of July,
1974
CLO HOOVER,
Mayor
ATTEST
K 0 GRUBB,
City Clerk
State of Cal1forma . }
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CIty of Santa Momca )
I do hereby certlfy that the
foregomg ordInance was
duly and regularly mtroduc-
ed at a meeting of the CIty
Councll on the 16th day of
July, 1974, that thereafter
the said ordinance was duly
adopted at~a rneetmJ{ of the
Clty eounCJlat the Urd day of
July, 1974. by the foUow\ng
vote
AYES councilmen' Law-
son. McCloskey. SWlDk,
Tnves, van den Steenhoven.
Hoover.
NOES: Councilmen: Jud-
son
ABSENT CQuncllmen
None
K 0 GRUBB.
Ci ty Cleric
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GRDINA:'\CE NO 947
(CITY COlJNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDI~A!,;CE OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SAI\TA
MONICA AMENDING
ARTICLE VI. CHAPTER
4. SECTION 6430 OF
THE SANTA MoinCA
:\lUNICIP AL CODE
PERTAINING TO TAX-
ICAB RATES
THE CITY COUl'iCIL OF
THE CITY OF SANTA
.MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS
SECTION 1 Article VI
Chapter 4, SectIOn 6430 of th~
Santa MOnica MUnICIpal
Code is herebv amended to
read as follows
SECTION 6430 Max.
irnum Charge No person
shall charge, collect, de-
mand. receIve or arrange
for any compensatiOn for
taxlCab servIce or the ser-
VIce of any automobIle for
hire In the CIty used for
the conveyance of passen-
gers, any amount, rate or
compensatiOn greater
than the charges or rates
regulated by the CIty
Council
MInimum and max-
Imum rates or fares to be
charged the publIc by au-
tomobIles for hIre and
metered taxicabs operat-
mg over any street shall
be and the same hereby
are fIxed as follows
(a) Seventy (70) cents
for the fIrst one-thud
(1/3) mIle or fractIon
thereof { "flag drop") and
twenty 120) cents for each
succeedmg one-third \ 11'3}
mIle or fraction thereof
{bi Twenty (20) cents
for each one and two.
thIrds (1.2/3) mmutes of
waIting time when such
waitmg hme IS at the re-
quest of the passenger hlr-
mg the cab
(c) Twenty (20) cents
fOf each one and two-
thirds (1-2;3) mmutes of
traffIC delay hme
SECTION 2 The above
rates shall not be placed In
effect untIl after the expira-
t10n of the Executive Order
of the PreSIdent of the
Untted States (Issued on
June 13, 1973) provldmg for a
freeze on all prices paid bv
the consumer, prOVided,
however. that when an in-
crease in rates authorIzed
herem IS no longer
prohIbited by saId Order or
any subsequent actiOn by
paramount authority, saId
rates shall be placed lD
effect
SECTION 3 If any sectlOn,
subsectIOn, sentence, clause
or phrase of thIS ordmance IS
for any reason held to be
Invalid or unconstltutlOnal
by a declstOn of any court of
competent JurisdlctlOn. such
decISiOn shall not affect the
validIty of the remammg
portions of the ordmance
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 any one or more
sections, subsectIons, sen-
tences, clauses or phrases be
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declared InvalId or un-
canstl tutlonal
SECTION 4 The Mayor
shall SIgn and the CIty Clerk
shall attest to the passage of
thIS ordInance The CItv
Clerk shall cause the same to
be pubhshed once lD the
offICIal newspaper wIthm fIf.
teen days after Its adoption
ThIS ordmance shall become
effective after thIrty days
from Its adoption
ADOPTED thIS 22nd day
of J anuarv. 1974
CLO HOOVER,
Mayor
ATTEST'
K.O GRUBB,
CIty Clerk
State Of Cal1fornia )
County Of Los Angeles) SS.
CIty Of Santa Momca )
(SEAL)
I do hereby cerbfy tbat the
foregolOg ordinance was
duly and regularly introduc.
ed at a meeting of the CIty
Councll. on the 8th day of
January, 1974; that
thereafter the said ordmance
was duly adopted at a meet-
Ing of the City CounCIl on the
22nd day of January, 1974, by
the fonowm~ vote.
A YES CouncIlmen La w-
son, McCloskey, SWInk.
Tnves. van den Steenhoven
Hoover .
NOES CounCIlmen' None
ABSENT CounCIlmen.
Judson
K. O. GRUBB,
CIty Clerk.
(SEAL)
Pub Jan 30-1974