2834                               Municipal Charters

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED BY THE COUNTY
COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND, That this Act shall
take effect sixty (60) days after its enactment.

This Bill, having been approved by the Executive and returned to
the Council, stands enacted on November 5, 1969.

1969 Legislative Session, Legislative Day No. 22
Council Bill No. 39

An Act to repeal Sections 295 through 302 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Howard County and to enact Sections 14.500 through
14.507 of the Howard County Code providing for the regulation and
control of the operation of taxicabs in Howard County, providing
for the promulgation of rules and regulations governing said business
by the Bureau of Inspections, Licenses and Permits, appeals from
decisions of said Bureau and penalties for violations of this Act and
regulations issued pursuant thereto, and also containing a severability
clause.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF
HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND, That Sections 295 through 302 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County be and are hereby
repealed.

Section 2. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED BY THE COUNTY
COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND, That Sections 14.500,
14,501, 14.502, 14.503, 14.504, 14.505, 14.506 and 14.507 of the Howard
County Code, title "Licenses, Permits, and Inspections", and subtitle
"Taxicabs" be adopted to read as follows:

14.500—Definition; Exceptions

The term "Taxicab" as used in this subtitle shall embrace any motor
vehicle for hire, designed to carry seven persons or less, including driver,
operated upon any public street or highway in Howard County, or, on
call or demand, accepting or soliciting passengers indiscriminately for
transportation for hire between such points along the public streets and
highways in Howard County, as may be directed by the passenger or
passengers so being transported; provided that nothing in this subtitle
shall be construed to include as a taxicab, a motor vehicle operated, with
the approval and under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission,
on fixed routes and schedules.

14.501—Permit Required; Regulations; Appeal; Penalty

(a)    No person, association or corporation shall, on or after the
effective date of this Act, operate a taxicab or taxicabs, in Howard County,
except as hereinafter provided, until such person, association or corporation
shall have obtained a permit from the Bureau of Inspections, Licenses
and Permits of Howard County to operate such taxicab, or each of such
taxicabs.

(b)     Such permit shall be issued only after written application for
the same shall have been made to the Bureau of Inspections, Licenses and
Permits of Howard County. It shall be the duty of the Bureau, upon such
application, to investigate the expediency of granting such permit, the