Changes to Federal Law 69 on taxis
The text of the document was adjusted in 2012 and 2014.
In 2012, Law No. 34-FZ dated April 23, 2012 made the following changes:
- Article 9 of Federal Law 69 was supplemented with information that must be included in the application for a permit to work in a taxi. A closed list of documents has been established that may be required from the carrier when obtaining a license.
- In accordance with the new edition of subparagraph D of Part 16 of Article 9, a taximeter is installed in the car if the cost of the trip is determined by the readings of such a device.
- Now you can only get 1 permit for 1 car.
- Taxi chartering is possible only on the territory of 1 subject of the federation. Exception - the destination is in another subject.
When the new law No. 307-FZ of October 14, 2014 came into force, paragraph 4 of paragraph 17 of Article 3 was excluded from the text. It concerned a ban on operating a car after certain traffic violations were identified.
The State Duma is considering a draft of a new law that would provide for changes to the rules for taxi operations. The amendments should regulate the operation of ordering services that provide customers with information about cars and the cost of travel in electronic form (for example, Uber).
Deputy V. Lysakov, in a comment to Rossiyskaya Gazeta in May 2017, argued that the changes would be adopted in the fall of that year. However, there was no further news on this matter.
Fines
Also, one of the possible amendments provides for changes in pricing. If now, despite the law on taxis from January 1, 2017, prices on the market are dictated by intermediaries, that is, ordering service companies, now taxi companies must organize the pricing process directly. The main requirements of the current legislation for companies providing taxi services: it is mandatory to work with a license; when there is no valid license, the minimum fine will be 50,000 rubles. For individual entrepreneurs it will be 100,000 rubles, for commercial legal organizations 400,000, respectively. Repeated violation of this requirement will result in confiscation of the vehicle.
Traffic regulations for taxis
Drivers are required to comply with all regulations. According to traffic regulations, a taxi can move in the lane intended for public transport on the basis of clause 18.2.
But this is not always possible in practice. For example, in Moscow and some other cities, entry to the lane for public transport is limited by sign 3.1. Taxi drivers in such a situation cannot drive in a designated lane.
Taxi drivers do not have the right to stop in places where stopping is prohibited by sign 3.27. Only route transport can deviate from the requirement of this sign.
Drivers are also required to comply with the requirements for transporting children in special restraints. If there is no such element, the driver is obliged to refuse the trip.
