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AN ORDINANCE
Amending Title 3, Chapter 17, Section 9 of the Evanston City Code,
"Senior Citizen/ Persons with Disabilities Taxicab Program"
NOW BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS THAT:
SECTION 1: Title 3, Chapter 17, Section 9, "Senior Citizen/ Persons with
Disabilities Taxicab Program," of the Evanston City Code of 2012, as amended, is
hereby further amended as follows:
3-17-9. — SENIOR CITIZEN/PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES TAXICAB PROGRAM
Owners, operators and drivers of taxicabs are eligible to provide Senior Citizen/Persons
with Disabilities Taxicab Program services to City residents.
Persons eligible to participate as a passenger in the Senior Citizen/Persons with
Disabilities Taxicab Program must be Evanston residents of sixty (60) years of age or
older, or those residents who are persons with disabilities as defined by the Illinois
Vehicle Code, 625 ILCS 5/1-159.1. The availability of assistance for senior citizens will
be limited to those senior citizens who provide a written affidavit of need and meet
income eligibility requirements. Eligible senior citizens will be those individuals whose
annual income does not exceed thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) for a single person
or fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for married persons filing a joint income tax return.
Eligible persons with disabilities will be those individuals who give the City a written
disability determination pursuant to 625 ILCS 5/1-159.1.
The fixed rate for a ride for persons registered to participate in the Senior
Citizen/Persons with Disabilities Taxicab Program is ten dollars ($10.00), based upon
subsidies from the City, with a participant share of five dollars ($5.00). Eligible
passenger participants may purchase a coupon for service. Passenger participants may
be taken only within the corporate boundaries of the City of Evanston.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: If any provision of this ordinance or application thereof to
any person or circumstance is ruled unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid provision or invalid
application of this ordinance is severable.
SECTION 4: The findings and recitals herein are declared to be prima
facie evidence of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as provided by
the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
SECTION 5: This Ordinance will be in full force and effect from and after
its passage, approval, and publication in the maniner provided by law.
Introduced: 1�1QC�� q , 2018 Approved:
Adopted: f , 2018 .2G/ , 2018
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Attest:
Devon Reid, City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Michelle L. Masoncup, Inte im Corporation
Counsel
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