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 Cincinnati
 Code of Ordinances
 Title IV. PUBLIC UTILITIES
 Chapter 407. PUBLIC VEHICLES

  § 407-77. Taximeter Inspection and Fees.  

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  • No person owning or operating any taxicab shall offer or let the same for hire unless the taximeter affixed thereto has been inspected and tested by the director, and has been found to calculate and register the fare correctly in accordance with the rates filed with the director and posted in the taxicab, and a seal attesting thereto has been placed on such taximeter.

    Whenever the owner of a taxicab shall file an amended rate schedule, in which the taximeter rate is alerted, the taximeter on the taxicab involved shall be adjusted to the new rate and the taximeter shall be inspected, tested and sealed by the director as hereinbefore provided before the taxicab shall be placed in operation under the new rate.

    It shall be the duty of the director to inspect, test and seal every taximeter used on a taxicab at least once in every twelve months.

    In the event complaint is made to the director that any taximeter registered incorrectly, or not in accordance with the rate card posted in the taxicab, or not in accordance with the rate on file in the office of the director, it shall be the director's duty immediately to inspect such taximeter.

    Every inspection shall include the examination and inspection of the taximeter affixed to the taxicab, every wheel, tire, gear, shaft, and every part of the mechanism which may affect or control the operation of such taximeter, registering both as to distance and as to time; and the standards of measures and tests given hereafter shall be used therein by the director; and it shall be the duty of the director to seal all taximeters found correct and in accordance with the taximeter rates on file with the director and posted in the taxicab.

    The director shall keep a record of the identification number of every taximeter and the date of inspection thereof.

    If the director shall find any taximeter not accurate and correct or not calculating and registering in accordance with the rates filed with the director and posted in the taxicab, it shall be unlawful for the licensee of the taxicab containing such taximeter to operate or permit the same to be operated until its taximeter has been repaired and has been inspected and tested and found accurate and correct and registering in accordance with the rates filed with the director and posted in the taxicab and a seal has been placed thereon.

    The standards used by the director in testing and inspecting taximeters shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

    (a)

    Distance register. For both individual and average distance intervals, tolerances shall be allowed not exceeding one percent to the prejudice of the passenger nor 4 percent in favor of the passenger.

    (b)

    Time register. For individual time intervals, tolerances shall be allowed not exceeding 5 percent to the prejudice of the passenger nor 15 percent in favor of the passenger.

    (c)

    Time register. For average time intervals, omitting the initial interval, tolerances shall be allowed not exceeding 10 percent in favor of the passenger. No tolerance to the prejudice of the passenger shall be allowed.

(C.O. 407-77; a. Ord. No. 132-1968, eff. May 3, 1968; reordained as C.M.C. 407-77, eff. Jan. 1, 1972; a. Ord. No. 489-1974, eff. Jan. 1, 1975; Emer. Ord. No. 061-2013, § 4, eff. March 14, 2013)

Cross reference

Penalty, § 407-999-C.