Gebremariam v. District of Columbia Hackers' License Appeal Board

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Petitioner is a District of Columbia taxicab driver. His hacker’s license was suspended for six months because of his refusal to transport a passenger waiting at Washington National Airport in Virginia.1 Before us, he principally2 asserts that the D.C. taxicab regulations did not and could not apply to his activity at Washington National Airport, and that the D.C. Hackers’ License Appeal Board (the “Board”) thus had no power to suspend his license.3 We affirm.

Petitioner was charged with violating 15 DCMR 819.5 (1987), which provided: “No driver of a taxicab shall…