For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
TAXICAB. Includes all motor-driven vehicles engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire on the streets of the village. TAXICAB as defined in this chapter, does not include any of the following:
(1) Vehicles such as, but not limited to, limousines, which are exclusively for hire in connection with special or ceremonial events such as weddings, high school proms, transportation of dignitaries, anniversaries, or funerals;
(2) Vehicles such as, but not limited to, buses which operate upon village streets;
(3) Private vehicles belonging to the passenger which are driven by a chauffeur, the chauffeur being the employee of the passenger and therefore capable of being hired or fired from employment by the passenger;
(4) Vehicles engaged exclusively in the transportation of freight; or
(5) The transportation of persons characterized by the use of only one’s private motor vehicles, titled in the driver’s name and operated exclusively on an irregular, infrequent, or occasional basis to transport friends, relatives, or acquaintances of the vehicle owner/driver, with the owner/driver neither having or using any other means of advertisement suggesting an intention, desire, or willingness to operate a taxicab company, and which activity is not connected in any manner with a passenger or freight transportation business.
TAXICAB DRIVER. Any person authorized and assigned to drive a taxicab, and includes every person actually in charge of the physical operation of a taxicab, whether as owner, agent, sub-agent, servant, independent contractor, or employee of the owner.
TAXICAB OWNER/OPERATOR. Any person, firm, partnership, 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, on or over the streets of the village, whether as owner, operator, licensee, or otherwise, except a driver as hereinabove defined.
VILLAGE. The Village of Wellsville, Ohio.
(Prior Code, § 115.01) (Ord. 99-7, passed 4-20-1999)