As used in this chapter:
(a) “City” means the City of New Carlisle, Ohio, but whenever the word “City” is used in a territorial sense it shall be held to mean and include not only the present limits of the City of New Carlisle, Ohio, but also the corporate limits as they may be hereafter extended and such annexed territory as may for the purpose of this ordinance come under the jurisdiction of the City.
(b) “Police Administrator” means the Administrator of the City's Police Division.
(c) “Compensation” means any fare, charge, reward, reimbursement, tip, donation, or other thing of value which a driver or owner of a motor vehicle accepts or receives or offers to accept or receive from any person in return for the transportation of any person or persons.
(d) “City Manager” means the city manager of the City of New Carlisle.
(e) “Disabled person” means any individual who, by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, is unable without special facilities or special planning or design to utilize mass transportation facilities and services as effectively as persons who are not so affected; excepting therefrom any person whose incapacity or disability is solely due to the consumption of alcohol or the use of any “drug of abuse” as the same is defined in Ohio R.C. 3719.011.
(f) “Owner or Operator” means any person, firm or corporation who or which has control, direction of operation, maintenance or the benefit of the collection of revenue derived from the operation of a taxicab as herein defined, on or over the streets of the City, whether as owner, licensee, bailee or otherwise, except a driver as hereinafter defined.
(g) “Taxicab” shall mean all passenger motor vehicles carrying the public generally, upon hail or request made on a public street, or public or quasi-public place (or which also accepts any person or persons in response to an order for service previously given, in which case a “not for hire” sign shall be exhibited) as passengers for hire, reward, gift, donation or other consideration either direct or indirect on the streets of the City, where route traveled and trip destination are controlled by the passenger and at a charge or fare based upon time and/or mileage. In addition to such motor vehicles as are commonly known as taxicabs, the term “taxicab” includes all motor vehicles of every kind, character, and description which are used as taxicabs, cabs or for-hire cars, and engaged as such in the carriage of passengers for hire, reward, gift, donation or other consideration, either direct or indirect. The following vehicles are specifically excluded from the definition of a “taxicab”:
(1) “Church bus,” being a vehicle licensed and registered by the State of Ohio as a church bus;
(2) “Funeral vehicle,” being a motor vehicle owned or leased by a funeral director and used exclusively for funeral services or motor vehicles for hire while being used for funeral services.
(3) “Motor bus,” being a vehicle owned or leased by a registered common carrier and registered by the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Ohio (PUCO), and being operated for the purpose of intrastate or interstate commerce on regulated routes or schedules or a vehicle which, by virtue of a franchise granted by the City, is driven upon fixed routes and generally according to a fixed schedule.
(4) Vehicles operated by day care facilities and automobile dealers for its customers and patrons at no cost to said customers and patrons.
(5) “Hotel and motel courtesy vehicle,” being a luxury limousine, specialized passenger motor vehicle, omnibus or similar vehicle operated by a hotel or motel as a courtesy for its patrons or its employees at no cost to its patrons or employees.
(6) “Ambulance,” being any motor vehicle that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for the transportation of persons who are seriously ill, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless; including any motor vehicle specifically designed and used solely for the transportation of nonstretcher-bound, hospitalized, or disabled persons confined to a wheelchair.
(7) “Limousine,” being a vehicle which is used exclusively for hire in connection with special or ceremonial events such as weddings, high school proms, transportation of dignitaries, anniversaries, or funerals or a vehicle belonging to the passenger which are driven by a chauffeur (the chauffeur being the employee of the passenger and therefore hired by the passenger or capable of being removed from employment by the passenger).
(Ord. 00-16. Passed 5-15-00.)