The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
PRIVATE LIVERY AUTOMOBILE
An automobile of the private passenger type, the designed seating capacity of which does not exceed seven persons, excluding the operator, rented for hire and operated by the owner or by an operator in the employ of the owner, and used for weddings, social functions, funeral purposes, shopping trips, touring and similar purposes, and excluding the following:
A. 
Vehicles operated for hire from a stand at a hotel, station, dock or place of public resort;
B. 
Vehicles operated as a bus or on a schedule along a regular route;
C. 
Vehicles used for trips at fares determined by zone or taximeter;
D. 
Vehicles carrying any sign that such motor vehicle is for public hire; or
E. 
Motor vehicles while actually used in the conduct of funerals or by a funeral director or his agents in connection with the conduct of a funeral. This exclusion shall apply only to motor vehicles registered in the name of the undertaker or funeral director in charge of the funeral.
No person having charge of or driving a private livery vehicle shall knowingly receive or permit to be placed therein, or convey in or upon the vehicle, any body of a deceased person.
No person driving a private livery vehicle shall have in his possession a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe while any passenger is being carried therein.
Every person having charge of or driving a private livery vehicle shall deliver any article left therein by any passenger to the Chief of Police not later than 24 hours after finding the article and shall receive from the Chief of Police a receipt therefor, and the Chief of Police shall take proper steps to return the article to the owner. All such articles delivered to the Chief of Police and not claimed by the owner within 90 days of such delivery shall be delivered to the licensee of the vehicle in which they were left.