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engage in chewing tobacco or using snuff when any passenger being carried in his Taxicab • requests that he not do so. Sec. 32-64. Length of working day. No driver of any Taxicab shall operate drive, nor shall Taxicab owners or their agents require drivers to epefate drive, more than thirteen (13) hours in any consecutive twenty -four- hour period. Sec. 32-65. Loading and unloading. (a) Taxicab drivers shall not stop to load or unload passengers or their belongings in the intersection of any streets or on any crosswalk. No Taxicab shall be loaded or unloaded in any manner that will in any way impede or interfere with the orderly flow of traffic on the streets. (b) Drivers shall not permit passengers to enter or to leave Taxicab from the left side except at the left curb of one-way streets or while parked perpendicular to the curb in places where such parking is permitted. See. 32-66. Transporting excess passengers. Drivers shall not permit more persons to be carried in a Taxicab at any one (1) time than • the seating capacity of the Taxicab, as rated by the manufacturer, including the driver but excepting children in arms. Sec. 32-67. Permitting excess occupancy of front seat. No Taxicab driver shall permit more than two (2) persons, in addition to the driver, to ride on the front seat of the Taxicab, a child in arms excepted. Sec. 32-68. Acceptance of additional passengers. Whenever any Taxicab is occupied by a passenger, the driver shall not permit any other person, except a paid employee of the Taxicab owner being transported for bona fide business purposes, to occupy or ride in such Taxicab if the original passenger objects thereto. Sec. 32-69. Transporting nonpaying passengers. No Taxicab driver shall transport a nonpaying passenger with a paying passenger, except bona fide officers or employees of the owner, driver trainees, or a police officer engaged in the performance of his duties and unable to obtain other adequate means of transportation.