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.