Baytown |
Code of Ordinances |
Chapter 102. VEHICLES FOR HIRE |
Article II. TAXICABS |
Division 1. GENERALLY |
§ 102-29. Responsibility for solvency of insurer; suits on insurance policy.
Neither the city nor any officer thereof shall be held liable for the pecuniary responsibility or solvency of any insurer or in any manner become liable for any sum on account of any such claim or act or omission relating to any taxicab nor shall the liability of the owner of any taxicab or his insurer be in any manner limited or changed in connection with this article, but the judgment creditors having causes of action secured thereby shall be authorized to sue directly on such policy of insurance without impleading the city. All persons known to any insurer to have been injured or damaged in the same accident and claiming damages thereunder may be parties without priority of claim on payment in any suit had or instituted because of such matters.
(Code 1967, § 29-19; Ord. No. 6926, § 1, 2-10-94)