Ordinance 1004 ORDINANCE NO. 1004
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE
CREATION OF TAXI STANDS AND
BUS STOPS AND REGULATING THE
USE THEREOF; AND REPEALING
SECTION 37.61 OF "THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA,
1950. "
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: The Chief of Police, with the approval of the City
Manager, is hereby authorized and required to
establish bus stops on the public streets in such
places and in such number as he shall determine to be of the
greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and shall
appropriately designate such bus stops .
SECTION 2: The Chief of Police, with the approval of the City
Manager, shall designate certain locations on
public streets or other public places in the City
of Miami Beach as Taxi Stands in a number sufficient to allow
at lease one parking place for each taxicab licensed to operate
within the City of Miami Beach. The Chief of Police shall
designate the number of vehicles which shall be allowed to stand
in each Taxi Stand so designated and shall mark by appropriate
signs the location of each Taxi Stand so designated and the
number of vehicles allowed to be parked therein.
SECTION 3: Only taxicabs in such numbers as are set forth on
the taxi stand signs may remain at the stand while
waiting for employment , and only in single file
pointed in accordance with the traffic regulations. No taxicab
standing at the head of any such line shall refuse to carry
any orderly person applying for a taxicab who agrees to pay the
proper fare, but this shall not prevent any person from selecting
any taxicab he may desire on the stand whether it be at the head
of the line or not, and as the taxicabs leave the line with
passengers, those behind shall move up, and any taxicab seeking
a space on the stand shall approach same only from the rear of
the stand and shall stop as near as possible to the last cab
already in the line.
SECTION L : The driver of a taxicab shall not attempt to avoid
taking his place in a taxi stand by any subterfuge
whatsoever, including, but not restricted to turning
into the curb ahead of such taxi stand, or by turning into or
parking in the driveway of any building adjacent to such taxi
stand.
SECTION 5: No taxicab owner nor any taxicab driver nor employee
of either, shall offer or give any money or anything
of value to the owner, lessee, or employee thereof
of any building adjacent to a taxi stand for the purpose of
obtaining patronage ahead of taxicabs standing in such adjacent
taxicab stands.
SECTION 6: For the purpose of this ordinance a building adjacent
to a taxi stand shall be considered as any building
within a radius of 200 feet of such taxi stand with
the main entrance of such building being visible to
such taxi stand.
SECTION 7: Section 37.61 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" and all ordinances or parts
of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 8: Any person violating any of the terms of this
ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punished as provided in Section 1.8 of "The
Code of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, 1950. "
SECTION 9: This ordinance shall go into effect immediately
upon its passage and posting as required by law.
PASSED and ADOPTED thi s It day of January A.D. ,
1952.
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Mayor
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Attest : vI.
City Clerk
1st reading - January 9, 1952
2nd reading - January 9, 1952
3rd. rear ng - January 16, 1952
POSTED- - January 16, 1952
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STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE:
I, C. W. TOMLINSON, City Clerk in and for the City
of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that Ordinance No.
1004, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF TAXI
STANDS AND BUS STOPS AND REGULATING THE USE THEREOF; AND REPEALING
SECTION 37.61 OF 'THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA,
1950' ", having been passed and adopted by the City Council of the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, has been posted by me in three
conspicuous places in the City of Miami Beach, one of which was
at the door of the City Hall in said City on thel6th day of January,
A.D. 1952, and that said Ordinance remained posted for a period of
at least thirty days in accordance with the requirements of the
City Charter of the said City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida,
on this the 5th day of March, A.D. 1952.
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City Clerk
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