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control, as to destination and/or route, of the passenger or passengers being carried therein. TAXICAB TERMINAL shall mean any office, station, building stand, substation or other place of business of a duly authorized holder at which calls are received, or may be received, from prospective passengers for hire, from which place of business the holder directs the dispatch and return of taxicabs used in the taxicab service for which the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity has been granted. TAXIMETER shall mean any mechanical instrument, appliance, device or machine by%hich the charge for hire of a motor vehicle is mechanically calculated, either for distance traveled or time consumed, or both, and on said instrument, appliance, device or machine such charge is indicated by figures. TOP LIGHT shall mean an electrically operated sign with lights of a color and design approved by the Chief of Police. TOTAL STOPPAGE shall mean the complete halting of bus transportation service furnished within the City of Santa Ana resulting from a labor strike or a disaster. VEHICLE FOR HIRE shall mean any ambulance, motorbus, taxi- cab, jitney or other motor vehicle offered in the city for the transportation of passengers for compensation or used or engaged in searching for or soliciting passengers for hire in the city. WAITING TIME shall mean the time when the taxicab is not in motion from the time of acceptance to the time of dis- charge of a passenger, including any time the taxicab is not in motion due to traffic or the request, act or fault of the passenger. The first three minutes elapsing prior to the arrival of the passenger at the beginning of a trip shall not be considered as waiting time, and in no event shall any time be considered as waiting time for any period prior to the time of arrival designated by the pro- spective passenger when requesting a taxicab. SECTION 4: Section 38-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 38-2 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Required. No person shall engage or permit any other person to en- gage in the business of searching for, soliciting or picking up a passenger or passengers in the city in any vehicle for hire owned or controlled by him without having first obtained a cer- tificate of public convenience and necessity for each such ve- hicle for hire as required by this chapter and having affixed to each such vehicle a permit as required by Section 38-18 of this chapter and a device as required by Section 38-20a of this chapter. Provided, however, that no certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the city shall be required for any operation for which a certificate of convenience and necessity is needed and has been granted by the Public Utilities Com- mission of the State of California. -3-