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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1394 PAGE TWENTY-ONE of any vehicle for hire to make proper returns to his employer, shall result in immediate suspension of the driver's permit until such time as such permit is either reinstated or revoked. Sec. 32-31.6. Same - Restitution. The person or the employer of a person , responsible for any charge, other than that authorized by this chapter, shall be required to make restitution jointly and severally to any overcharged patron for the amount of the overcharge. Sec. 32-32. Solicitation of fares; taxicab stands. No driver shall solicit passengers for a taxicab except when seated in the driver's compartment of such cab, or while standing immediately adjacent to the curbside thereof, No taxicab driver, or other person, shall solicit patronage in the terminal of any common carrier, or in the street within one hundred (100) feet of such terminal, or at any regular pickup point of any other common carrier without written per- mission from the person operating such terminal or from such common carrier. No fixed taxicab stands shall be provided upon the streets of the city. Sec. 32-33. Transporting Persons for Purpose of Prostitution, etc. It shall be unlawful for any driver of a taxicab knowingly to transport any passenger to the abode of a prostitute, or knowingly to transport any criminal, narcotic peddler, prostitute or boot-legger in the commission of a crime or infraction of the law in any manner, or act in any manner as a panderer for prostitutes or a contact for unlawful establishments of any character. Sec. 32-34. Taximeter - Operation. No holder of a permit shall operate, drive, cause or permit to be driven or operated any taxicab in the City of Santa Aha unless and until the taximeter for such taxicab shall have been approved by the director of finance, and it shall be the duty of the holder operating such taxicab, and also the driver thereof to keep such meter operating at all times within such standards of accuracy as may be prescribed from time to time by the director of finance. No passenger shall be carried in any such cab unless said taximeter shall be in operation. This provision shall apply regardless of whether a taxicab is engaged for a trip entirely within the boundaries of the City of Santa Ana or partially outside thereof, and such meter shall be kept operating continuously during the entire time that it is engaged in the transportation of passengers, regardless of the point of destination. Sec. 32-34.1. Same - Visibility. A taximeter shall be placed in each taxicab so that the reading dial showing the amount to be charged shall be well lighted and readily discernible to the passenger riding in any such taxicab.