§ 9.20.010. Fraud on for hire vehicles.

A.

Definitions. The term "vehicle for hire" means and includes any taxicab, ambulance, rent service car, or self-propelled motor vehicle employed in the business of carrying passengers for hire within and without the city, and not operated over fixed routes or between certain definite points. The term "licensed" as applied to the term "vehicle for hire" means any vehicle for hire duly licensed in any city or county of the state of Nevada.

B.

Refusal of Passenger to Pay Legal Fare. It is unlawful for any person to refuse to pay the legal fare of any licensed vehicle for hire after having hired the same, and it is unlawful for any person to hire any vehicle herein defined with the intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired of the value of such service.

C.

Presumption of Intent. When any person, after having hired a licensed vehicle for hire, fails to pay the legal fare, it shall raise a presumption that the vehicle was hired with the intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired of the value of such service.

D.

Section Supplemental to Other Regulations. This section is supplemental to any other ordinances regulating vehicles for hire.

(Prior code §§ 7.40.010—7.40.040)