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Any interested person may file with the city council a statement in support of or opposition to the issuance of a certificate. Sec. 27-5. Issuance of certificate. If the city council, after the public hearing required by section 27-4, finds that further taxicab service in the City of San Marcos, Texas, is required by the public convenience and necessity and that the applicant is fit, willing and able to perform such public transportation and to conform to the provisions of this ordinance, then the city council shall issue a certificate stating the name and address of the applicant, the number of vehicles authorized under said certificate and the date of issuance otherwise the application shall be denied. Sec. 27-6. Insurance required. Each holder of a certificate of convenience and necessity for the operation of a taxicab business in the City of San Marcos, Texas, shall at all times during the term of such certificate maintain a policy of liability insurance issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in the State of Texas on each and every motor vehicle operated under the terms of said certificate in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for bodily injury to any one person; in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) for injuries to more than one person which are sustained in the same accident and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for property damage resulting from any one accident. Said policies shall be approved by the city attorney and filed with the city secretary. Said policies of insurance shall not be cancelled or surrendered except after ten (10) days' written notice to the city secretary. Failure of the certificate holder to procure and file the policies of insurance as required by this sec- tion, or failure to keep the same in force, shall immediately forfeit and make null and void. such certificate and all rights thereunder shall at once cease. Sec. 27-7. Fees. No certificate shall be issued or continued in operation unless the holder thereof has paid an annual license fee of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and Sixty Dollars ($60.00) each year for each vehicle operated under a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Said fees shall be paid to the city to compensate the city for its superintendence of the taxicab business operated hereunder, and for the use of the streets, alleys and public ways of the city. Sec. 27-8. Transfer of certificates. No certificate of public convenience and necessity may be sold, assigned, mortgaged or otherwise transferred without the consent of the city council. Sec. 27-9. Suspension and revocation of certificate. A certificate issued under the provisions of this ordinance may be revoked or suspended by the city council for any of the following reasons: