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<br />?t:: <br />N',' <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />MARCH 12, 1974 <br /> <br />with delay in the delivery of the vehicles and that to grant the Dealer's request would be <br /> <br />a bad precedent for the City. Mayor West explained that while Council had sympathy for <br /> <br />the position of the dealer, Council felt that it would not be proper for the City to <br /> <br />supplement the amount arrived at in the bidding procedure. On motion made, seconded, <br /> <br />and carried unanimously, Council regretfully denied the request of Piedmont Dodge. <br /> <br />,,- <br /> <br />Mr. John J. Hartley, Attorney at Law, appeared before Council on behalf of the owners- <br /> <br />operators of taxicabs licensed to operate in the City of Martinsville and requested <br /> <br />certain increases in the rates or tariffs heretofore established by Council, citing <br /> <br />considerable operational cost increases which have taken place over the last several <br /> <br />years as a basis for the requested rate increases. Council approved said requested <br /> <br />increases through its adoption of the following ordinance amending Section 16-41 of <br /> <br />the City Code: <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in <br />regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of March, 1974, that Section <br />l6-4l of the CODE OF THE CITY OF MARTINSVILLE (l97l), and as amended, be <br />and is hereby further amended to read as follows: <br /> <br />Section 16-41. <br /> <br />Meter, etc., rates. <br /> <br />No owner or operator of any taxicab operated under a <br />certificate of public convenience and necessity issued <br />under this article shall charge for the hire thereof a <br />sum that shall be greater or lesser than in accordance <br />with the following rates of hire: <br />For the first one-fourth of a mile, or <br />fraction thereof . . . . . . . . . . $0.50 <br />For each succeeding one-seventh mile, <br />or fraction thereof . . . . . . $O.lO <br />In addition to the foregoing charges: <br />For each trunk, if handled by the <br /> <br />driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... $0.30 <br /> <br />For placing large bundles or packages <br />or groceries into a cab and removing <br />therefrom into a residence or other <br />bu il ding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 0 . 30 <br />For each two minutes waiting time ..... $0.l5 <br />There shall be no charge for extra passengers or <br />handbags. <br /> <br />BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that this ordinance shall be in effect <br />on and after April l, 1974. <br />