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Pedicab operator urges council to ease DUI disqualification at public hearing; ordinance laid over
Summary
A local pedicab owner asked the council to revise a pedicab-driver disqualification that bars applicants with a DUI in the last three years. The council closed the public hearing on the pedicab ordinance and laid the matter over for final adoption on July 23.
The council held a public hearing on proposed changes to Chapter 375 of the legislative code that would allow pedicabs to pull a trailer, remove hours restrictions and adopt uniform license procedures. Fernando Scott, a local pedicab owner, urged the council to amend section 375.5(b)(5), which the ordinance text lists as disqualifying anyone with a DUI in the past three years from obtaining a pedicab driver’s license.
Scott told the council he supports…
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