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Section 37-37. Driver's manifest. Each public vehicle owner shall furnish the driver with a manifest on forms to be approved by the City Manager which forms shall have spaces provided for a record of the origin and time of all calls, trips, destinations and the fares paid. Such information shall be entered on the manifest at.the time of occurrence. The manifest shall be retained by the owner of the public vehicle for a period of thirty (30) days. The manifest shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to the City Manager or his duly authorized agent and to any members of the police department of this city or other cities. Any manifest that may be taken from the possession of the driver before it has been turned in to the owner shall, before the same is used in any proceeding, civil or criminal, if requested, be exhibited to the owner in order that a copy may be had of the same. No owner shall permit any driver who comes on duty to drive such public vehicle unless he has such manifest in the vehicle. The manifest shall be delivered to the owner at the termination of each driver's assignment. Section 37-38. Disposition of money, property left in public vehicle. The person in charge for any public vehicle shall carefully preserve any money or other property left in such vehicle by any passenger and the same shall be promptly deposited with the owner of the vehicle who shall deliver a receipt for same and file in writing a report to police headquarters and shall keep the same at some convenient point within the city where the same may be called for by the owner. When such money or other property shall have been identified and ownership properly established, the same shall be promptly delivered to such owner. Any property~ whether money or other thing, which shall not be called for within sixty (60) days, shall be disposed of according to law. Section 37-61. Required. It shall be unlawful to operate, or cause to be operated, within the city any public vehicle unless a certificate of public convenience and neGessity therefor has been issued pursuant to this division. Section 37-67. Personal nature of certificate. Each certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be issued subject to the conditions that the public vehicle shall be operated only by the person to whom such certificate is issued or his bona fide employee, and that public vehicle shall not be loaned, rented, assigned or such