Court Opinion

ID: 9865856
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 22:25:42.59668+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:57:36.902138
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
On a petition for rehearing the cities of Louisville and Lexington have filed briefs amicus curiae expressing the fear that our decision destroys their right to regulate the operation of taxicabs upon city streets under local police powers. These cities also maintain the present decision is in conflict with certain holdings in the *729ease of Beavers et al. v. City of Williamsburg et al., 306 Ky. 201, 206 S. W. 2d 938. Our opinion as now modified cannot be so construed. Local regulation of the operation of taxicabs consistent with a city’s police power is not condemned by this decision. The scope and extent of state and local supervision is founded in our statutes, and if cities are in need of greater powers to deal with this problem, the appeal should be directed to our General Assembly.