Unless otherwise expressly stated, when used in this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
(a) "Taxicab Operator" means and includes every corporation, company, person, firm or copartnership, their Lessee's, Trustees, Receivers or Trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating, maintaining or managing one or more taxicabs within the City;
(b) "Street" means and includes any public street, alley or public way within the corporate limits of the City;
(c) "Taxicab" means and includes any motor vehicle engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire or fare or offered for hire or fare to the public for transportation, operating within the City, except motor buses on regular schedules and other regularly established routes and school buses and vans for transportation of students to schools located either within or outside the City, and chauffeured limousines.
(d) “'Taxicab Driver" means any person who drives or operates a taxicab for hire or fare and who is in actual control of a taxicab on the streets of the City;
(e) "Chauffeured Limousine" means a motor vehicle designed to carry fewer than nine passengers and operated for hire on an hourly basis pursuant to a prearranged contract for the transportation of passengers on public roads, streets and highways along a route under the control of the person hiring the vehicle and not over a defined regular route. "Prearranged Contract" means an agreement, made in advance of boarding, to provide transportation from a specific location in a chauffeured limousine at a fixed rate per hour. "Chauffeured Limousine" does not include any vehicle used exclusively in the business of funeral directing.
(Ord. 105-99. Passed 12-6-99.)