Prohibited conduct

The following acts by any pedicab driver are prohibited:

(a)

Carrying more than four passengers, or while carrying a number of passengers that exceeds the number of passenger seats which such pedicab was designed to accommodate, or while any passenger is standing or while any passenger is sitting anywhere other than the passenger seat. Children under the age of five may be seated securely in the lap of another passenger and will not count as an additional passenger.

(b)

While the pedicab is in motion, the pedicab driver shall not collect fares, make change, or embark or debark passengers.

(c)

Any act that violates any city ordinance, county ordinance, or state law or disrupts the flow of vehicular traffic on public streets.

(d)

Leaving the pedicab unattended.

(e)

Operating, maneuvering, inclining, spinning, tilting, tipping, sloping or otherwise positioning a Pedicab in any manner that would unnecessarily place a passenger in other than an upright, seated position.

(f)

Operating a pedicab upon a sidewalk portion of a public right-of-way, except at the direction of a law enforcement officer or when there are no visible pedestrians on that entire block.

(g)

Operating a pedicab upon any street listed on the prohibited streets list established under this article.

(h)

Operating a pedicab on any street with a posted speed limit of more than 30 miles per hour.

(i)

Operating a pedicab with sound produced by radio, tape, CD, DVD, record player, or any other mechanical sound device or instrument from the pedicab so that the sound is plainly audible at a distance of 25 feet or more from the pedicab. The pedicab cannot have a loudspeaker or amplifier.

(j)

Operating or riding more than two abreast, except when overtaking and passing a bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction.

(k)

Using indecent or profane language while operating a pedicab.

(l)

Allowing any passenger or occupant of the pedicab to drink or consume alcoholic beverages or to possess an open container of alcoholic beverages.

(Ord. No. 13102, § 1, 10-8-09)