Definitions. The following definitions shall
govern the interpretation of this chapter unless otherwise expressly
defined herein:
Includes any single act of transporting a passenger or passengers
in a motor vehicle for hire or for compensation of any kind upon the
public streets, roads and highways within the City of Glen Cove.
Includes all areas within the City of Glen Cove.
Due authorization in writing, as provided herein, which permits
a person to engage in the business of transportation for hire, to
operate a motor vehicle engaged in the business of transportation
for hire, or to employ others for said purposes.
Includes any motor vehicle engaged in transportation for
hire, in connection with funerals, weddings, proms, and other events
or functions of a similar nature, or in connection with general transportation
for hire when, at the prior request of the passenger(s), an unmarked
livery is used and pickup is made by prior arrangement, whether hired
by the hour, by the day or for a fixed fare, and/or so licensed by
the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles.
Includes a person who is entitled to obtain in his or her
own name proper New York State licensing for the operation of a motor
vehicle for the purpose of transportation for hire.
Includes a person, as defined herein, who is a business owner,
principal, director and/or officer of a business, a purchaser under
a reserve title contract, conditional sales contract or vendor's lien
agreement and a lessee who is entitled to obtain in his or her own
name proper New York State registration of the vehicles engaged in
the business of transportation for hire, and/or a person owning or
controlling one or more taxicabs or limousines and operating/driving
or causing to be operated/driven any such vehicle for hire.
Includes any person other than the operator/driver who is
an occupant of a taxicab or limousine upon public streets, roads and
highways within the City of Glen Cove.
Includes natural persons, corporations, partnerships, unincorporated
associations or any other organization of two or more persons.
Includes any motor vehicle engaged in the business of transportation for hire, other than vehicles as described in § 256-2.
Includes any motor vehicle used in the transporting of a passenger or passengers, for hire or for compensation of any kind, upon the public streets, roads and highways within the City of Glen Cove, other than vehicles as described in § 256-2.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply
to vehicles solely owned and operated for the activities set forth
herein:
A.
Private vehicles not engaged in the business of transportation
for hire.
B.
Business vehicles engaged in a business other than
transportation for hire, wherein said vehicles are used solely for
transportation of clients of said business, whether for a fee or not,
and are not made available for hire to persons other than clients
of the principal business.
C.
Hotel vehicles engaged in the transportation of hotel
guests only.
D.
Club vehicles engaged in the transportation of club
members only.
E.
Public or private school vehicles engaged in the transportation
of school pupils only.
F.
Buses, as defined by the New York State Vehicle and
Traffic Law.
G.
Vehicles for hire engaged in transportation from a
point within the City to a point outside the City.
H.
Vehicles for hire engaged in transportation upon a
defined route under a franchise therefor from the City of Glen Cove.
A.
Inspection, certification of vehicles.
(1)
No vehicle shall be licensed, nor the license therefor
renewed, without a current New York State inspection sticker.
(2)
No vehicle shall be licensed, nor the license therefor
renewed, until it has been inspected by or under the direction of
the Chief of Police and certified by him or her to be in safe condition
for the transportation of passengers, clean, fit and of good appearance
and insured as required by law.
B.
Rules for administration and enforcement. The Chief
of Police is hereby authorized and empowered to establish reasonable
rules and regulations for the inspection of taxicabs and limousines
for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and to cause
inspections of licensed taxicabs and limousines to be made from time
to time to see that they are kept in a condition of continued fitness
for public use. Written reports of all inspections shall be kept by
the Chief of Police or his/her designee.
