The following words shall have their respective meanings when used in this chapter:

    "Liquor" includes "alcoholic beverage."

    "Taxicab" means every motor driven vehicle used within the limits of the city for public hire and to carry passengers for hire or furnishing passengers transportation for hire along or over public streets, avenues or other highways in the city, where a charge is made for such service, the designation or route of which is under the direction of a passenger transported therein; provided, however, that such term shall not be taken to mean or include any such vehicle known as a bus operated between definite or substantially fixed points or along a definite or substantially fixed route or routes; and such term shall not be taken to mean any funeral bus, school bus, railroad car or railroad locomotive; and such term shall not be taken to mean or include any municipally operated bus or transit vehicle. (Prior code § 29-1)