Unless otherwise expressly stated, whenever used in this chapter,
the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them in this section:
A passenger automobile with a seating capacity in the interior
thereof for seven or fewer passengers, operated for the purpose of
transporting passengers for hire from points of origin within the
City of Yonkers, which either receives calls from dispatchers for
the purpose of transporting passengers for hire or is parked in a
location approved by the Police Department for Class A taxicabs.
[Added 10-28-2014 by G.O. No. 13-2014]
A passenger automobile with a seating capacity in the interior
thereof for seven or fewer passengers which transports fares for hire.
A Class B Taxicab shall not secure business by soliciting fares in
public places or at taxicab stands, but will do so by call or other
communication from a dispatcher.
[Added 10-28-2014 by G.O. No. 13-2014]
Driving a vehicle slowly and when there is no traffic or
other obstruction requiring the driver to slow down, along a public
street in search of or soliciting prospective passengers for hire.
The metal badge issued by the Police Commissioner to be worn
by the driver to display the driver's license number.
Includes permission granted by the City of Yonkers to any
person to drive upon the streets of the City any licensed taxicab
or Class B taxicab, and to transport paying passengers.
The carrying of goods, packages, merchandise, parcels or
other property when the same is not accompanied by a passenger.
The situation in which more than one passenger makes common
use of a taxicab or Class B taxicab during all or part of a trip.
The card issued by the Police Commissioner with each taxicab
license, which shall display the City license number of the vehicle
and the rate of fare.
The metal plate issued by the Police Commissioner with each
taxicab license for displaying the City license number of the taxicab
on the exterior of the vehicle.
Includes any person owning or having control of the use of
one or more taxicabs used for hire upon the streets of the City of
Yonkers or engaged in the business of operating a taxicab.
One person traveling alone or two or more persons who have
arranged in advance, on entering a taxicab, to use the taxicab together
in traveling to the same destination.
Includes one or more persons of either sex, natural persons,
corporations, partnerships, associations, joint-stock companies, societies
and all other entities of any kind capable of being sued.
The Police Commissioner of the City of Yonkers.
The Police Department of the City of Yonkers.
Includes any vehicle engaged in the use or business of carrying
passengers for hire or for rental other than taxicabs, as defined
in this section.
A motor vehicle, designed to comfortably seat and carry eight
or more passengers, operating for hire from a fixed point in the City
of Yonkers to a place or places of interest or amusement, and shall
also include a vehicle designed as aforesaid, which, by an oral or
written contract, is let and hired or otherwise engaged for exclusive
use for a specific or special trip or excursion from a starting point
within the City of Yonkers.
Includes any street, avenue, highway, alley, bridge, plaza,
lane or public place within the territorial limits of the City of
Yonkers.
Includes any Class A or Class B taxicab as defined in this
chapter or any vehicle engaged in the business of carrying persons
for hire, whether operated by radio-telephone or electronic equipment
of any type, for the purpose of receiving and relaying designated
proposed passenger information, whether the same is operated from
a street stand or from or in a railroad station or subject to calls
from a garage, office or other place of business, except vehicles
subject to the provisions of the Transportation Corporations Law of
the State of New York or vehicles used as private ambulances or by
undertakers in the course of their business or by others for specially
planned religious, civic, social and allied functions.
Any person who drives a taxicab, whether such person is the
owner of such taxicab or employed by a taxicab owner or operator.
Includes permission granted by the City of Yonkers to any
person to operate or keep for hire any taxicab in said City.
Includes any place alongside the curb of a street or elsewhere
which is reserved by ordinance or by regulation of the Police Commissioner
exclusively for the use of taxicabs.
A mechanical instrument or device, approved by the Police
Commissioner, by which the charge for hire of a taxicab is mechanically
calculated and on which such charge is plainly indicated.
