Committee on Transportation and the Public Way
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 9-64-170(a) of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago is hereby amended by adding the language underlined and deleting the language struck through, as follows:
(6) Residential streets - Exception for taxicabs - When authorized. In the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 35th, 40th. 46th and 50th wards, and on that portion of 108th Place from South Wentworth Avenue on the east to the perpendicular railway line on the west, the prohibition set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection (a) shall not apply to the owner of a taxicab if all of the following requirements are met: (i) the owner of the taxicab has no outstanding debt to the city for parking violations or has satisfied or otherwise resolved any such debt within the meaning of Section 2-32-094, and (ii) the taxicab is not in service, and (iii) the taxicab is lawfully parked at the curb adjacent to the taxicab owner's place of residence in accordance with the general parking requirements of this Code, and (iv) the taxicab bears a valid and current city wheel tax license emblem, and (v) the taxicab bears a valid and current special parking permit issued by the alderman of the ward in which the taxicab owner resides, and (vi) the taxicab is in apparent compliance with this subsection and other applicable requirements of this Code.
Andre Vasquez, Jr. Alderman, 40th Ward
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon passage and publication.
