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<br /> -2- <br /> ( 5) The experience of the applicant in the <br /> transportation of passengers. <br /> (6) Any facts which the applicant believes tend to <br /> prove that public convenience and necessity <br /> require the granting of a certificate. <br /> (7) The name, usual trade description, seating <br /> capacity, equipment, motor number, state <br /> license number, rated horsepower and factory <br /> number of each motor vehicle to be operated or <br /> controlled by applicant, and the year in which <br /> each automobile was manufactured. <br /> (8) The name and address of the person who will be <br /> in active charge and control of the limousine <br /> serVlce. <br />Sec. 15 1/2-4. Public hearing. <br /> Upon the filing of an application, a time and place <br />shall be set for a public hearing. Notice of the <br />hearing shall be given to the applicant and to all <br />persons to whom certificates of public convenience and <br />necessity have been previously issued. Due notice shall <br />also be given to the general public by publication at <br />least ten (10) days prior to the date set for the <br />hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the <br />city. <br /> Any interested person may file with the city <br />council a statement in support of or opposition to the <br />issuance of a certificate. <br />Sec. 15 1/2-5. Issuance of certificate. <br /> If the city council, after the public hearing <br />required by section 15 1/2-4, finds that further <br />limousine service in the city is required to adequately <br />serve the public convenience and necessity and that the <br />applicant is fit, willing and able to perform public <br />transportation and to conform to the provisions of this <br />chapter, then the city council shall issue a certificate <br />stating the name and address of the applicant, the <br />number of vehicles authorized under the certificate and <br />the date of issuance. <br />Sec. 15 1/2-6. Insurance required. <br /> Each holder of a certificate of convenience and <br />necessity for the operation of a limousine service in <br />the city shall at all times during the term of such <br />certificate maintain a policy of liability insurance <br />issued by an insurance company authorized to do business <br />in the state on each motor vehicle operated under the <br />terms of said certificate in the amount of one hundred <br />thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for bodily injury to any <br />one person; in the amount of three hundred thousand <br />dollars ($300,000.00) for injuries to more than one <br />person which are sustained in the same accident and one <br />hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for property <br />damage resulting from anyone accident. The policies <br />shall be approved by the city attorney and filed with <br />the city secretary. The policies shall not be cancelled <br />or surrendered except after ten (10) days' written <br />notice to the city secretary. Failure of the cerificate <br />holder to procure and file the policies as required by <br />this section, or failure to keep them in force, shall <br />immediately forfeit and make null and void the <br />certificate and all rights under it shall at once cease <br />without the necessity of further action by the City <br />Council. <br />