Explanation
This ordinance is needed to amend two sections of City Code related to Taxicabs.
CC Sections 591.04(a)(2) and (a)(3) were recently amended by Ordinance Number 2924-2024 to increase the fare rate schedule from $0.45 to $0.50 for each additional two-ninths (2/9) mile and waiting time, respectively; however, it has been determined that CC Section 591.04(b) also should have been amended to increase the hourly rate from twenty-seven dollars ($27.00) to thirty dollars ($30.00) per hour.
CC Section 587.17(b)(2) needs to be revised to clarify that interest earned on an account held by the Treasurer’s office for liability protection for corporate taxicab owners may be returned to the owner.
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
Title
To amend City Code Sections 591.04 and 587.17 relating to Taxicabs in order to make minor corrections and clarifications. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend two sections of City Code relating to Taxicabs in order to make minor corrections and clarifications; and
WHEREAS, CC Sections 591.04(a)(2) and (a)(3) were recently amended to increase the fare rate schedule from $0.45 to $0.50 for each additional two-ninths (2/9) mile and waiting time, respectively, however, it has been determined that CC Section 591.04(b) also needs to be amended to increase the hourly rate from twenty-seven dollars ($27.00) to thirty dollars ($30.00) per hour; and
WHEREAS, CC Section 587.17(b)(2) needs to be revised to clarify that interest earned on an account held by the Treasurer’s office for liability protection for corporate taxicab owners may be returned to the owner; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Building and Zoning Services to amend two sections of City Code relating to Taxicabs; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Code Sections are hereby amended as set forth in the attachments hereto.
SECTION 2. That the existing sections Columbus City Codes amended by SECTION 1 are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.