This article does not apply to the following:
(a) Transportation provided by a motor vehicle owned, leased or contracted by a governmental entity while said motor vehicle is providing transportation services for or on behalf of the governmental entity;.
(b) Any voluntary sharing of transportation without compensation;
(c) The transportation of passengers by a motor vehicle from a point outside of the city to destination inside the city if the motor vehicle leaves the city without receiving a passenger inside the city and the entity providing the transportation service is licensed by a governmental entity other than the city to provide transportation-for-hire service;
(d) The transportation of passengers picked up from a location outside the city and transported to a location outside the city, only incidentally passing through the city;
(e) A fixed-route transportation-for-hire service that provides transportation to and from destinations outside the city if all of the following are true:
(i) the transportation-for-hire vehicles used to provide the service stop at a designated point inside the city at designated times for purposes of discharging and receiving passengers;
(ii) the transportation-for-hire vehicles used to provide the service do not provide on-demand transportation-for-hire service; and
(iii) the entity providing the transportation-for-hire service is licensed by a governmental entity other than the city to provide said transportation-for-hire service;
(f) Transportation provided by vehicles that are not motor vehicles;
(g) Transportation provided by a motor vehicle that has a manufacturer's rated seating capacity of more than fifteen (15) passengers;
(h) Transportation provided by a motor vehicle that is not used to transport passengers for compensation and is operated by or for a business that provides free transportation to customers as an accessory to the main business activity;
(i) Ambulance transportation, emergency medical transportation, transfer medical transportation, and other medical transportation;
(j) The towing of motor vehicles and any transportation provided incident to such towing;
(k) Transportation provided by a motor vehicle operated for a funeral home in the performance of funeral services;
(l) Transportation provided by a motor vehicle provided by an employer or employee association for use in transporting an employee between the employee's home and the employer's place of business or between workstations, with the employee reimbursing the employer or employee association in an amount calculated only to offset the reasonable expenses of operating the motor vehicle;
(m) Transportation provided by a motor vehicle owned by a nonprofit organization and carrying only passengers associated with that organization, if no compensation is received from any other entity for carrying the passengers.
(Ord. No.4088, § 2, 12-8-16)