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other carrier without written permission from the person operating such terminal or carrier. No taxicab stands shall be provided upon the streets of the city. No ambulance owner, operator or driver shall solicit passengers at the scene of the accident unless the same has been summoned by telephone communication, and no ambulance shall go to the scene of the accident discovered by monitoring short wave police calls. Section 38-67. Vehicles and Drivers Licensed Elsewhere. The operator of a motor vehicle licensed by any juris- diction as a taxicab shall be deemed, upon soliciting passengers in the City of Santa Ana for transportation, to be operating for hire. A person licensed as a taxi- cab driver by any jurisdiction who solicits passengers in the City of Santa Ana shall be deemed to be operating for hire. Section 38-68. Penalty for Violation of Chapter Provisions. Any person, partnership, corporation, firm, registered owner, or holder of a Certificate either by himself or through his direction, consent, assent, permission or acquiescence who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person who shall aid, abet or assist in the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and each separate violation shall constitute a separate offense, and each and every day the offense is continued in cases where the offense is a continuous one, shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Section 38-69. Authority to Arrest. Every police officer of the city is hereby given authority and is enjoined to watch and observe the con- duct of holders and drivers operating under this chapter. Upon discovering a violation of the provisions of this chapter, every such officer shall take immediate steps to enforce the law, by report to proper officials, by citation, by arrest, or by impounding vehicle used in the commission of a violation of this chapter. ~-~_ection 3: If.any section, s~bsecti~n, sentence, clause, I~ ~ portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. -30-