File #: O-21-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 8/6/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/28/2024 Final action: 10/28/2024
Title: Taxicab Driver License Criteria - For the purpose of updating the criteria for a City taxicab driver license; requiring a Class C driver's license from the State instead of a Class D license; requiring a driver-for-hire tag from the State; limiting the size of a taxicab vehicle; and generally dealing with taxicab driver qualifications.
Sponsors: Gavin Buckley
Indexes: Economic Matters Committee
Attachments: 1. O-21-24 First Reader, 2. O-21-24 Legislative Summary, 3. O-21-24 Staff Report, 4. O-21-24 Fiscal Impact Note, 5. O-21-24 Signed (color), 6. O-21-24 Signed (b&w)
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Taxicab Driver License Criteria - For the purpose of updating the criteria for a City taxicab driver license; requiring a Class C driver's license from the State instead of a Class D license; requiring a driver-for-hire tag from the State; limiting the size of a taxicab vehicle; and generally dealing with taxicab driver qualifications.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 21-24

Introduced by: Mayor Buckley

Referred to:
Economic Matters Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Taxicab Driver License Criteria

FOR the purpose of updating the criteria for a City taxicab driver license; requiring a Class C driver's license from the State instead of a Class D license; requiring a driver-for-hire tag from the State; limiting the size of a taxicab vehicle; and generally dealing with taxicab driver qualifications.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2024 Edition:
7.48.520

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Title 7 - BUSINESS LICENSES, TAXES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 7.48 - TAXICABS
Article IV - Owner/Driver Permitting



7.48.020 Definitions.
B. "Taxicab" means:
1. Except as provided in Subsection (B)(2) of this section, a motor vehicle for hire that:
a. Is designed to carry seven or fewer individuals including the driver; and
b. Is used to accept or solicit passengers for transportation for hire between those points along highways in this City as the passengers request.
Taxicab.
1. Except as provided in Paragraph 2 below, "Taxicab" means a motor vehicle for hire engaged by the passenger for transportation service between points chosen by the passenger.
2. Taxicab does not include a motor vehicle operated on a regular schedule and between fixed termini with the approval of the Maryland pPublic sService sCommission.


Section 7.48.520 - Qualifications.

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