Urban Transport Regulations for Passengers in Cadiz

Posted on Dec 12, 2024 in Law & Jurisprudence

Article 1: Purpose

The purpose of this regulation is the regulation of urban transport services of passengers within the municipality of Cadiz, with or without a taximeter device approved by Royal Decree of March 16, 1979, No. 763/9.

Article 2: Terms

Class A) Auto taxis with a meter, within the town.

Class B) Self-tourism: no meter counter, inside or outside the village.

Class C) Special or fertilizer: Vehicles operated inside or outside the village, have more power, luxury ability, dedication, purpose.

Section 1: General Rules

Article 3: Vehicle Ownership and Insurance

The vehicle must be shown as the license holder’s property in the Register of the DGT. The owners must agree on the insurance policy, which must cover the risks outlined in existing legislation.

Article 4: Vehicle Replacement

Holders may replace the vehicle with another; simply change the formal communication, which will be subject to approval by the municipality.

Article 5: Vehicle Transfers

Transmissions by inter vivos acts of rental vehicles require a change in formal communication and authorization by the municipality.

Article 6: Vehicle Bodywork and Interior

  • Bodywork must be closed with doors for easy access and operation to facilitate the maneuver smoothly.
  • The minimum size inside the vehicle and seat comfort are those needed to own such vehicles.
  • Doors should be equipped with a mechanism to trigger your glasses at the user’s will.
  • The back will have adequate windows for maximum visibility, light, and ventilation, provided with transparent and shatterproof glass.
  • Inside, you can install the required electrical lighting.
  • It shall be equipped with a fire extinguisher.

Article 7: SP Plate Requirements

Vehicles must have an SP plate at the front and one at the back with a white background and black letters. Dimensions are as follows:

  • Length of plate: 225 mm
  • Height: 120 mm
  • Width of each letter: 60 mm
  • Letter Spacing: 35 mm
  • Thickness of Stroke: 8 mm

Article 8: Vehicle Capacity

The capacity of the vehicle must not exceed 7 seats for classes A and B, including the driver. Exceptions may allow up to 9 seats. Children aged 3 to 10 years will be counted as two children per seat.

Article 9: Vehicle Age Limit

This article does not authorize the commissioning of a car older than 5 years for taxis and auto cars.

Article 10: Vehicle Inspections

No vehicle may enter service without prior review of security, maintenance, and documentation by the Delegations for Industry and Energy and the respective Local Authority, except for new vehicles. Extraordinary revisions checking vehicles for safety, conservation, and documentation are made by the Delegation of Industry and Energy and the City on the same day and time. This inspection is produced in the first quarter. Revisions may be made at any time, without charge, but they can motivate, in case of violation, the appropriate sanction. Any car that does not meet the safety requirements for this municipal regulation may not serve again without prior recognition by the competent body or authority in which it declares to remedy the deficiencies noted, conceptualized as serious misconduct contravention of it.

Article 11: Radio Usage

A radio may be used if the traveler wants.

Article 12: Advertising

With permission from the City Council and with relevant legal requirements, advertisements may be placed inside the car, provided they do not impede visibility and retain aesthetics. Advertising outside the vehicle is subject to the provisions of the highway code.

Article 13: Vehicle Condition

Vehicles must be in good condition regarding presentation, security, and performance requirements for the provision of correct service. Vehicles may be withdrawn from circulation if they do not meet these conditions. Bags and inappropriate upholstery are not permitted.

Section 2: Licenses

Article 14: License Publication and Objection

For the provision of these regulations, it shall be provided to hold the Municipal License. The council will publish the list in the official gazette of the Province, and it can be argued that choosing to protect their rights, within 15 days. By Contest: The procedure shall be subject to local procurement rules.

Article 15: License Granting Criteria

The granting of licenses by the city council is determined by the necessity and convenience of the service to the public. The following will be analyzed:

  1. The status of the service quality and length before granting new licenses.
  2. The type, size, and growth of towns.
  3. The need for improved and comprehensive service.
  4. The impact of new licenses granted in the overall transport and traffic.

In the file being processed for this purpose, a report of the Standing Committee of traffic and transportation and communications in the province of government shall be requested, and professional associations of employers and employees representing the industry, as well as users and consumers, shall be heard for a period of 15 days.

Article 16: License Applicants

The following may apply for licenses for Auto-Taxi:

  1. Drivers employed by license holders of Class A and B providing full-time service in the profession, accredited by possession and validity of driver licenses issued by the City of Cadiz and the registration and trading on such a concept of social security.
  2. Holders of licenses issued by the City of Cadiz in Class B, provided they are holders of one of the Self-tourism and reverse it when they obtain the Self-taxis.
  3. Individuals can go out for open tender.

Licenses may apply Auto-tourism drivers employed in Class B of paragraph a) and natural or legal persons referred to in paragraph c) both of the above. The natural and legal persons may freely apply for Class C License in accordance with the provisions of Article 15 of this regulation.

Article 17: License Application Process

The license will be sought through a request addressed to the Mayor of Cadiz, which will include the following:

  1. Name, surname, address, age, sex, marital status, occupation, and length of residence of the municipality of Cádiz. If the applicant is a legal entity, it must certify that it has its registered office in Cadiz and residence of more than one year.
  2. Make, type or model, power, number of seats of the vehicle with which he has to provide the service as requested license, and the address of the garage in which to save.

Article 18: Ineligible Applicants

The following may not apply for licenses:

  1. Council members during their term or their spouses and direct descendants or collateral.
  2. Officials and municipal employees, either personally or through third parties, or their spouses and lineal descendants.
  3. Heads, officers, enlisted men, and officers of the traffic police.

Article 19: License Award Priority

The award of licenses for Class A Self-taxis follows this order of priority:

  1. Continuity will be interrupted when he voluntarily abandons the profession of drivers employed for a period equal to or exceeding 6 months.
  2. Through open tender, those who adjudicate permits are not under the preceding paragraph.

The priority (preference for a case must be addressed with respect to another) for the allocation of Class B licenses Auto-tourism will be for drivers employed by the license holders of Class B, which referred the paragraph a) of paragraph 1, by strict seniority and not so regulated by open competition before.

Article 20: License Transferability

The license shall not be transferable except in the following cases:

  1. The death of the owner, for his widowed spouse or heirs (women or children).
  2. When the widowed spouse and legitimate heirs to the retiree cannot exploit the license as the sole and exclusive activity and consent of the council. Any other heir in possession of the registration certificate.
  3. When it is impossible to practice the licensee, by reason of illness, accident, and others who can qualify as force majeure (including the final withdrawal of the Driving license required) to be seen in his file, for applicants above.
  4. Where the license shall be older than 5 years, the owner may pass the authorization of the council to the employee driver with a driving license and exercise the profession for one year, failing to first obtain the new license in the City of Cadiz within 10 years by any of the methods provided in this regulation, or re-transmit the customer, but in the cases reviewed in this article.

Licenses whose ownership corresponds to legal persons shall be transferable only when taking the age of 5 are disposed (move to another property) all the titles. The license class C can only be passed when having a 5-year older than respect the ownership thresholds of Article 27 of this regulation. The broadcasts are made in contravention of (work against) the previous sections produce the revocation (cancellation) of the license file after processing initiated by the court, at the request of trade unions, professional associations, and other interested parties.

Article 21: Class C License Requirements

Applicants for licenses for services in class C must demonstrate to the council within 30 days of granting the license that they are discharged as a contributor in the Industrial tax license tax, transforming Tribute Local by Law 44/1978 of September 8, and to open in the town, have an office or establishment registered name or title for the administration of indicated services.

Article 22: License Classification

The license will be granted specified for each class of service expressed in article 2, differing according to the following:

  1. Class A will cross with a red stripe from right to left diagonally.
  2. Class B, the strip will be blue.
  3. Class C, take the green stripe.

In no case shall the processing of licenses in a different class, except as provided in paragraph b) of Article 16 and in the event that holders of Class A and B, a town to agree to convert the class B in A to condition its approval realization Hall and disappears within a period to be determined, the type of class B final.

Article 23: License Revocation

The ownership of the license is lost by an express waiver thereof; for breach of the obligations associated with those, as provided in these rules, and for loss of personal conditions that led to the concession.

Article 24: License Withdrawal

The Council can withdraw the license for the following reasons:

  1. No vehicle permanently dedicate the service of the License without due cause.
  2. Retired Failure to periodic review.
  3. Failing to comply with other provisions of these regulations that refer to the ownership of the vehicle.

Article 25: License Leasing Prohibition

License holders may not lease, assign, or lend the use of cars equipped with the License. Violation of this rule will imply the cancellation of the license.

Article 26: Lost and Found

The drivers of public service vehicles for urban transport are required to check inside the car every time they become vacant to check for valuables left in them. They must report any lost items to the Municipal Police Headquarters within 24 hours.

Article 27: Class C Vehicle Minimum

The holders of Class C shall not be employed to have 3 vehicles, at least with the relevant licenses.

Article 28: License Operation

A holder of License Class A and B will be required to exploit personal or joint by recruiting drivers to the SS membership scheme complete and exclusive dedication and incompatibility with other profession. When you can not fulfill this obligation, there will be a transfer of licenses in cases admitted in Article 20, or his resignation.

Article 29: Service Time Limits

Within sixty calendar days from the date you acquired the License City, the owners are required to serve immediately and depending on the vehicle license. Shall not be left to pay services 30 consecutive days or 60 alternate in each calendar year unless good cause, and the license expires and the City Council proceed with its new award or depreciation as it deems appropriate.

Article 30: License Register

The Municipality shall keep a register of licenses granted where it will note the different incidents on the holders, such as accidents, substitutions.

Article 31: Licensee Responsibilities

The licensees are responsible for their drivers’ subsidiary employees in all matters relating to the service. Shall also be required to meet the payment of fines imposed, without prejudice to its right to claim the amount of drivers.

Section 3: Rates

Article 32: Tariff Regime

The tariff regime applicable to urban and interurban services covered in this regulation shall, as appropriate, by the Ministry of Transport and Communications or by the City. In this case, it will be heard for 15 days, the professional associations of employers and workers and to consumers and businesses. Rates of application will be visible to the user from inside the vehicle. Will contain the same extras and special rates apply to certain services required. The fees referred to enforcement will be required for holders of licenses, drivers of vehicles, and users.

Article 33: Rate Review

The review of charges will be made under the procedure in the previous article for approval.

Section 4: Auto-Taxis

Article 34: Taximeter Requirements

Auto-taxis should be fitted with a taximeter device checked and sealed, located on the front inside the body, visible to the traveler’s reading of the rate or price, and must be illuminated from dusk until dawn.

Article 35: Taximeter Operation

The apparatus taximeter brought into operation by lowering the flag or replacing the mechanical element. You can put the meter in neutral, there may be an accident, damage, replacement of fuel, and not have to pay the customer.

Article 36:

Article 37: Free Status Indication

During the day, taxis indicate free status becoming visible through the windshield that word, which should be read also in the flag of the taximeter. At night, they must carry on, green light outside the car in taxis, on the right side of the body and connected to the flag of the taximeter apparatus for on or off of it, depending on the situation of the vehicle. You can also carry a lighted sign at the top center of the body by putting off.

Article 38: Intercity Services

Cars of different classes of licenses may make intercity services whenever they have the required authorization from the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Article 39: Auto-Taxi Service Obligation

The Auto-taxi with the license is required to attend daily at stops to provide the services of its kind, combining the schedule so that those persons are adequately met.

Article 40: Required Documents

During the service should bring the documents:

a) reference to vehicle:

  • License
  • Plate with the license number of the vehicle Municipal and indication of the number of places on the same
  • The vehicle registration certificate
  • Insurance policies in force
  • General identification card, marked with the affiliation of the license holder, driver or drivers employed, rest days, hours of meals, etc.

b) Concerning the driver:

  • Meat of lead
  • Municipal permit to drive.

c) regarding service:

  • Book claims
  • Addresses of the relief, nursing, police, firefighters, and other emergency services.
  • Street-level city
  • Checkbook-bill approved by the City by the perceived amount of hours of waiting, the outputs of the territory of the jurisdiction of the City
  • Official copy of the current rate

Article 41: Driver Attire

Clothing correct.

Article 42: Auto-Taxi Stops

The Auto-Taxi stops are located in places and the number of places indicated:

  • San Juan de Dios, Samuel: 16
  • San Juan de Dios, Novelty: 16
  • San Juan de Dios Puerta del Mar Gran Turismo: 4
  • San Antonio, Junquera: 9
  • San Antonio, Zaragoza: 12
  • Plaza San Francisco: 9
  • General Varela-Plaza: 5
  • Plaza Hispanidad: 12
  • Paseo Canalejas Diputación: 8
  • Plaza Pius XII: 11
  • Glorieta Ingeniero La Cierva: 6
  • Jimenez-Guerra, Post: 4
  • Elios-Plaza: 3
  • Square Trade Zone: 5

Neighborhood of Peace:

  • Plaza San José C / Poeta Nieto: 5
  • Plaza de la Victoria: 4
  • Barriada Spain, Ciudad De Santander: 3
  • Plaza Vista Hermosa: 8
  • Barrio Loreto: 4
  • Railway Station, Gate Spring: 5
  • Hospital-Mora: 4
  • Moreno-Guillen Barriada: 5

Article 43: Night Service Surcharge

The night service will be 50% between 22:00 and 08:00.

Article 44: Vehicle Maintenance

Each vehicle will stop for a day a week for review, cleaning, and tuning, no service except for special reasons is authorized by the City. In the rear side will be a letter that day to rest.

Article 45: Driver Meal Breaks

Hours Catering taxi car drivers will be in 2 shifts and with a duration of two hours. Of the 13:00 to 15:00 hours and another round of 15:00 to 17:00 hours. To control this time carried on the front windshield sticker with the meal schedule has been applied.

Section 5: Self-Cars

Article 46: Vehicle Specifications

Being a service considered luxury vehicles for car-touring must have a power of 12 HP, a maximum age of 5 years, and its body and its interior will own range of service they are intended. SP will have to carry front and rear. The color will be the same.

Article 47: Kilometer Counter

The Auto-cars have the account km duly sealed by the Delegations for Industry. The fixed rate will be approved by the City.

Article 48: Free Status Sign

When the vehicles are unemployed carried a sign on the windshield of 30 X 20 cm. In put: Auto-free tourism without distinctive exterior that SP 2 plates of an anterior and a posterior.

Article 49: Urban Transport Service

Vehicles class b) of paragraph 2 º be obliged to attend the stops marked for the provision of urban transport services, subject to the provisions in Article 39.

Article 50: Required Documents

The Auto-tourism, be provided with the documents specified in Articles 38 and 40 for Auto-taxis.

Article 51: Passenger Solicitation

Vehicles Auto-tourism will not move indicating free to get passengers.

Section 6: Vehicles for Special Services and Fertilization

Article 52: Vehicle Characteristics

The services must be the same characteristics as described for car-cars in the previous section.

Article 53: Kilometer Counter and Inspections

The special vehicles and fertilizer will seal the account km and will be periodically reviewed according to Article 10.

Article 54: Service Recruitment

The subscription service recruitment should take place is situated in the offices where the management, administration, representation, or branch companies to be prohibited to park on public roads or driving on it pending clients. Prices are for self-determination by enterprises, shall be valid for 6 months.

Article 55: Driver Identification

The standard that may lead the drivers of the special service vehicles or fertilizer, be identified by the companies themselves.

Article 56: Driver Authorization

All vehicles assigned to the procedure A, B, and C shall be taken only by those they hold the corresponding specific legal authorization. When it comes to vehicles carrying out urban transport service, driving the municipal permit must be issued by the City of Cadiz for those who meet the following requirements apply:

  1. Be in possession of a driving license class C or higher.
  2. Be free from infectious and contagious disease or physical disability which hinders the normal practice.
  3. Demonstrate through good conduct certificate issued by the mayor.
  4. Negative certificate of criminal records.
  5. Those that would have expressly generally DGT.

Article 57: Municipal Permit Application

The Municipal Permit driver must be requested by an application addressed to the Mayor of Cadiz, where stating the name, address, occupation, and residence time in Cadiz.

Article 58: Driver Information

Licensees must notify the council of the names and addresses of their drivers, as well as the number of the Municipal Permit and Driver’s date of issue and number and date of issue of ID. If the change occurs to the driver before the service is supplied by the new driver, should report back to City Hall with the aforementioned data.

Article 59: Service Organization

The City of Cadiz organize and order the service: schedules, calendars, breaks, and holidays. Pending Professional associations / employers and employees.

Article 60: Driver Regulations

Irrespective of working conditions regulated by relevant legislation, drivers are required to comply scrupulously with the provisions and National Regulation.