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V <br />Section 27-21.1. Procedures for changing fares. <br />(a) City council may consider changes in the taxicab fares <br />established by this chapter from time to time, on its own motion, <br />or on petition of one or more taxicab operators. Any such petition <br />from an operator or operators shall include the amount of the <br />increase or decrease requested, the specific factors believed to <br />make such change necessary or desirable, and a projection of the <br />financial impact of the proposed fare change on the petitioners. <br />(b) Before any ordinance changing fares is considered by <br />city council, it shall conduct a public hearing thereon. The clerk <br />of the council shall cause a notice of the time and place of such <br />public hearing to be published in a newspaper of general circula- <br />tion in the city on two dates not less than seven days apart, with <br />the second notice appearing not less than six days before the date <br />of the hearing. The clerk of the council shall also deliver or <br />mail such notice to each registered owner or operator of a taxicab <br />operating in the city, and each such person shall post the notice <br />in a location readily visible to a passenger riding in each taxicab. <br />Such notice shall include the amount of the proposed changes, and <br />the location where the petition, the proposed ordinance and any <br />supporting financial and other reports may be inspected by the <br />public. <br />(c) After conducting a public hearing pursuant to notice as <br />required by law, city council may adopt, modify or deny the <br />proposed changes in rates. it may further condition such changes on <br />the adherence by all taxicab operators to specific service require- <br />ments or regulations established under this chapter. The council <br />shall also direct the clerk of the council to publish a notice of <br />such newly adopted rates in a newspaper of general circulation in <br />the city, on two occasions not less than seven days apart. <br />(d) The mailing or delivery by the clerk of the council of <br />the notices required under subsection (b) to all currently <br />registered owners and operators of taxicabs shall be presumed <br />ipso facto to constitute compliance with the terms of such <br />subsection, notwithstanding the failure of one or more operators <br />to post such notices in their taxicabs. <br />• <br />