§ 6.12. Condition and Inspection of Horse-Drawn Vehicles.

(a)

Each horse-drawn vehicle shall be kept in a safe and sanitary condition at all times. The City shall have the right to inspect or cause to be inspected any horse-drawn vehicle as often as may be necessary for the purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any unsafe or unsanitary conditions or any violations of this article or any other rule, regulation, ordinance or law relating to the operating of such horse-drawn vehicles.

(b)

The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to establish a fee for each such inspection, and is further authorized to establish and promulgate rules and regulations and minimum standards for the inspection and condition of horse-drawn vehicles.

(c)

If any horse-drawn vehicle shall fail to pass such inspection, it shall be removed from service on the day of inspection, and shall remain out of service until it has passed inspection.

(d)

All horse-drawn vehicles used by a permittee shall have conspicuously displayed on the exterior of the vehicle the name of the permittee or the trade name under which such permittee operates. No signs other than those required by this article shall be allowed on any horse-drawn vehicle.

(Ord. of 12-14-1981, § 2; Ord. of 1-24-2000, § 6, Doc. #32625)