(a) As used in this section, "motor transportation company," or "common carrier by motor vehicle," includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, person, firm, or copartnership, and their lessees, legal or personal representatives, trustees, and receivers or trustees appointed by any court, when engaged or proposing to engage in the business of transporting persons or property, or the business of providing or furnishing such transportation service, for hire, whether directly or by lease or other arrangement, for the public in general, in or by motor-propelled vehicles of any kind, including trailers, over any public highway in this State.
(b) No motor transportation company or common carrier by motor vehicle operating under a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) pursuant to Ohio R.C. 4921.07 et seq. shall carry persons whose complete ride is wholly within the territorial limits of the City of Ashtabula, or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipal corporations immediately contiguous to it, without complying fully with the provisions of Sections 755.01 through 755.04.
(c) Pursuant to Ohio R.C. 4921.05, consent is hereby granted to any such motor transportation company to operate within the City of Ashtabula under the terms set forth in the foregoing paragraph. No such consent is granted to any motor transportation company engaged in such activity which has not met the foregoing requirements. The City Manager is directed to report violations to the PUCO and request enforcement action by said agency against any alleged violator. (Ord. 2009-123. Passed 8-17-09.)