CARRIAGE: Any horse or other animal drawn cart, wagon, vehicle or attached apparatus used for the purpose of transporting persons for compensation.
LICENSING AUTHORITY: The city council or its designee, herein referred to as the city.
LIMOUSINE: Any luxury motor vehicle driven by a chauffeur used for the purpose of transporting persons for hire.
OPERATION: The conducting of a general taxicab, limousine, pedicab or carriage business including, but not limited to, owning the business, contracting or leasing the business or an individual vehicle.
OPERATOR OR DRIVER: An individual, including a taxicab or limousine owner, authorized to operate, drive, or staff a taxicab or limousine upon and through the streets, avenues and alleys of the city.
PEDICAB: Any human powered vehicle that is able to be pedaled without any motor assistance, used for the purpose of transporting persons. A motor assist may be permitted so long as it does not replace or become the primary source of power in moving the unit and is seven hundred fifty (750) watts or less, is one horsepower or less, and cannot exceed twenty (20) miles per hour.
TAXICAB: Any motor vehicle used for the purpose of transporting persons for hire, providing the "taxicab", as herein stated and defined, shall not include school buses or other motor vehicles used exclusively for the transportation of children to and from school, nor a motor bus with a seating capacity of over seven (7) passengers operated on a regular schedule over regularly designated streets, nor companies operating for the purpose of carrying United States mail or other United States property.
TAXICAB, LIMOUSINE, PEDICAB OR CARRIAGE OWNER: The person, firm, copartner, corporation, individual or association securing a license to operate a taxicab(s), limousine(s), pedicab(s) or carriage(s) upon and through the streets, avenues and alleys of the city. (Ord. 1215, 7-17-2009)