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File #: 030792    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Placed On File
File created: 9/23/2003 In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 5/20/2008
Effective date:    
Title: A substitute ordinance prohibiting taxicab companies and cooperatives from adopting certain names.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLES, TAXICABS, TRANSPORTATION
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Note.pdf, 2. Letter -City Attorney.PDF, 3. Yellow Cab Transcript.pdf
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultTallyAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
12/17/20131 COMMON COUNCIL HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
4/30/20131 COMMON COUNCIL HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
5/20/20081 COMMON COUNCIL PLACED ON FILEPass13:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
5/8/20081 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILEPass4:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/20051 CITY CLERK REFERRED TO   Action details Meeting details Not available
3/17/20051 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
1/18/20051 LICENSES COMMITTEE HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR

Minutes note: Speakers: Mike Cross - Cross Law Firm Kavada Singh Bajwa - lives in Germantown - owner of 4 Yellow Cabs Justice Khalsa - lives in Glendale Ahmad Al Kaleefa - lives in Brown Deer Devonar Singh - lives in Oak Creek Devroj Dhenda - Barb Miles - Manager of Yellow Cab Co-op Suvetner Singh - lives in Saint Francis Muhammad Arif - lives in Milwaukee Mohander Singh - lives in Milwaukee Malik Ahmad - lives in Greenfield Mahander Singh - lives in Greenfield Chaman Singh - lives in Oak Creek Anthony Brelough - lives in Wauwatosa Red Christianson - General Manager for Yellow Cab of Milwaukee, Inc.
Pass5:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
12/28/20041 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
11/25/20031 COMMON COUNCIL REFERRED TO

Minutes note: ---This ordinance prohibits taxicab companies and cooperatives from adopting names "substantially similar" to those of any of the entities granted body colors by the code. It also includes findings which clarify the legislative intent of the city's already-adopted color system for taxicabs.
Pass15:1 Action details Meeting details Not available
11/11/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIRFail1:3 Action details Meeting details Not available
11/11/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGEPass5:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
11/6/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
11/6/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
10/23/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
10/23/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
10/22/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
10/9/2003  LICENSES COMMITTEE REFERRED TO   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/20031 LICENSES COMMITTEE HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIRPass3:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/20031 CITY CLERK DRAFT SUBMITTED   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/20030 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/20030 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/20030 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/20030 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/20030 LICENSES COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
9/23/20030 COMMON COUNCIL ASSIGNED TO   Action details Meeting details Not available
Number
030792
 
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
 
Reference
 
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
 
Title
A substitute ordinance prohibiting taxicab companies and cooperatives from adopting certain names.
 
Sections
100-2-6  am
100-51-7-a-7  cr
 
Analysis
This ordinance prohibits taxicab companies and cooperatives from adopting names "substantially similar" to those of any of the entities granted body colors by the code.  It also includes findings which clarify the legislative intent of the city's already-adopted color system for taxicabs.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
 
Part 1.  Section 100-2-6 of the code is amended to read:
100-2.  Purpose.  The purpose of this chapter is to:
6.  Eliminate conflict and confusion among users between different types of services >>, particularly, although not exclusively, through the establishment and enforcement of an equitable taxicab color system intended to insure that the various taxicab companies may be readily identified by the largest possible number of people<<.
 
Part 2.  Section 100-51-7-a-7 of the code is created to read:
100-51.  Vehicle Inspection.
7.  GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.
a-7. Because a substantial number of the individuals who use taxicab services are developmentally disabled or lack an ability to speak, read or understand English; and given the policy of the common council as set forth in s. 100-2-6 which expresses the common council's desire to reduce confusion among patrons of the different taxicab companies, the common council finds that the taxicab color system set forth in this paragraph is an effective means of serving its residents who are also taxicab patrons.  Consequently, no person, corporation, entity or firm doing business as a taxicab company or taxicab cooperative shall be allowed to operate under any name substantially similar to the name of any of the entities granted body colors in this paragraph.
 
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
 
 
_________________________
Legislative Reference Bureau
Date:_____________________
 
Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
 
 
________________________
Office of the City Attorney
Date:____________________
 
Requestor
 
City Attorney
 
Drafter
LRB03333-1
jro
09/25/03