"Carrier" means and includes every person, corporation, partnership, joint venture or other form of business organization, their lessees, receivers or trustees, engaged in operating for hire, taxicabs as defined in subsection (C) of this section.

"Driver" means and includes every person driving, operating, or in charge of any vehicle as defined by this section as a taxicab.

"Taxicab" means and includes every vehicle used for the transportation of passengers over the streets of the city, but not over defined routes, at rates for distance traveled, or for waiting time, or for both, the charge to patrons being determined and indicated by the mechanical calculation of a taximeter as defined in subsection (D) of this section.

"Taximeter" means and includes a mechanical instrument, or device, by which the charge for hire of a taxicab is mechanically calculated, either for distance traveled, or for waiting time, or both, and upon which such charge is plainly registered by means of figures, indicating dollars and cents.

"Taxi stand" means a place on a public street designated by the city manager for the use, while awaiting employment, of any vehicle covered by this chapter. (Ord. 473 §1, 2002).