§ 408-1. Application and Digital Identification Permit.

(a)

Every applicant for a license as a driver of a taxicab, tour vehicle, accessible vehicle, pedicab, low speed vehicle, or animal-drawn carriage shall make application to the director on forms to be supplied by the director. The director, for purposes of Chapter 408, shall be the same definition as Section 407-1-D1. The application shall be notarized, and each applicant must supply information or documentation to show the applicant fulfills the following requirements, and any other pertinent information as the director may require, in order to complete his/her application under Chapter 408:

(1)

Able to speak, read, and write the English language;

(2)

Twenty-one years of age or over and must present a valid operator's license as approved by the director;

(3)

Free of defective vision, defective hearing, epilepsy, vertigo, heart trouble, and any other infirmity, physical or mental, which would render the applicant unfit for safe operation of a public vehicle;

(4)

Not currently engaging in the illegal use of alcohol or drugs.

(5)

Cleared by a criminal background check, which is completed by a law enforcement entity, association, corporation, or firm approved by the director to perform such services.

(b)

Every applicant for a license to drive an accessible vehicle shall also produce satisfactory evidence that the applicant has completed a course in first aid and life saving, approved by the director, and in addition, a certificate from a reputable physician stating that the applicant is free from communicable diseases.

(C.O. 408-1; a. Ord. No. 132-1968, eff. May 3, 1968; a. Ord. No. 195-1969, eff. May 14, 1969; reordained as C.M.C. 408-1, eff. Jan. 1, 1972; a. Ord. No. 489-1974, eff. Jan. 1, 1975; a. Ord. No. 264-1982, eff. July 23, 1982; a. Ord. No. 259-1995, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; a. Ord. No. 0037-2009, §§ 1, 2, eff. March 11, 2009; Emer. Ord. No. 061-2013, § 10, eff. March 14, 2013; a. Ord. No. 309-2014, § 32, eff. Nov. 29, 2014; a. Ord. No. 0127-2019, §§ 5, 6, eff. May 24, 2019)