For the purpose of this chapter, unless otherwise specifically stated, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them:
(a) "Independent and/or Subcontractor" means a person who receives payment reported on a 1099 Form.
(b) "Regular employee" means an employee whose wages are reported on a W-2 Form.
(c) "Street" means any public street, alley and public way within the corporate limits of the City.
(d) "Taxicab" means 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 busses, operated on regular schedules and other regularly established routes.
(e) "Taxicab driver" means any person who drives or operates a taxicab.
(f) "Taxicab operator" means every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, person, firm or co-partnership, their licensees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating, maintaining or managing one or more taxicabs within the City.
(g) "Transit vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is engaged to carry one or more persons, excluding the driver, for hire on a per person or hourly basis for the transportation of passengers on public roads and highways along a route under the control of the person hiring the vehicle and not over a defined and regular route. "Transient vehicle" does not include any vehicle that is used exclusively in the business of funeral directing or weddings.
(h) "Transit vehicle driver" means any person who drives or operates a transit vehicle.
(i) "Transit vehicle operator" means every corporation, company, association, joint stock, association, person, firm or co-partnership, their licensees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating, maintaining or managing one or more transit vehicles within the City.
(Ord. 130702-54. Passed 7-16-13.)