Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2011-5535

• Record #: O2011-5535
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 7/6/2011
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Joint Committee: License and Consumer Protection; Transportation and Public Way
• Final action: 5/20/2015
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 2, 3 and 4 to regulate pedicabs
• Sponsors: Tunney, Thomas
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 14 Dept. of Administrative Hearings, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 3 - Revenue & Finance - Ch. 46 Chicago Ground Transportation Tax, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 5 License Fees for Title 4 Licenses, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 156 Amusements

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/20/2015		City Council	Failed to Pass	Fail
7/25/2011		Committee on Transportation and Public Way	Held in Committee	Pass
7/6/2011	3715	City Council	Referred

|1010|ORDINANCE
BE IT ODRAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO: SECTION I. title 4 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding a new chapter 4-248, as follows:
4-248-010 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter,
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of business affairs and consumer protection.
"Licensee" means any person that holds a pedicab business license. "Operator" means an individual who operates a pedicab in the city. "Owner" means a person who owns a pedicab in the city.
"Pedicab" means a bicycle used to provide transport for hire upon which a person may ride, propelled exclusively by human power, and is constructed in such a manner as to allow the carrying of one or more passengers.
"Pedicab business" means the business of operating or authorizing the operation of one or more pedicabs to provide transport for hire in the city.
"Pedicab business license" means a pedicab business license issued by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
4-248-020 Pedicab business license - Required.
No person shall engage in a pedicab business without having secured a pedicab business license. The pedicab business license shall be in addition to any other license required by law.
4- 248-030 Pedicab business licence - Fee.
The license fee for a pedicab business license shall be as set forth in Section. 4-
5- 010 ofthe Code. A pedicab business license shall be valid for a maximum period of one year from the date of its issuance. A pedicab business license shall be renewed as provided by rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner. A pedicab business license is non-transferable.
4-248-040 Pedicab business license - Application.
Chapter 4-248
Pedicabs|10
10|Application for a pedicab business license shall be made in writing to the commissioner or the commissioner's designee on a form provided by the commissioner and signed and sworn to by the owner or, if the owner is a corporation, by its authorized agent. Each applica...