As used in this Part 1, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
AIRPORT
The Pittsburgh International Airport, as it now exists or hereafter
may be changed, modified or expanded.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Such public officials and public bodies as may by operation of law
succeed to any of the rights, powers or duties which as of the date of enactment
of this Part 1 lawfully reside in the Board of County Commissioners.
COUNTY
The County of Allegheny.
COURTESY VEHICLE
Any automobile, van, station wagon, bus, limousine or other motor
vehicle regularly operated for the transportation of customers or baggage
between the airport and a motel, hotel, parking facility, or auto rental facility
situated off airport premises, except a carrier for hire certificated by a
State Public Utility Commission or operated or authorized for operation by
an authority created pursuant to an act of the State Legislature. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a motor vehicle operated pursuant to a contract in which the
County has granted authority to operate either directly or through a third
party shall not be considered a courtesy vehicle for purposes of this Part
1.
COURTESY VEHICLE SERVICE
The regular transportation by courtesy vehicle of customers or baggage
between the airport and a motel, hotel, parking facility or auto rental facility
situated off airport premises.
DIRECTOR
The Director of the County's Department of Aviation and includes
such persons as from time to time may be authorized by the Board of County
Commissioners or by the Director to act for the Director.
PERMITTEE
Any person who has been issued a permit by the Director to operate
a courtesy vehicle pursuant to this Part 1.
PERSON
Every natural person, partnership, association and corporation who
is an owner, operator or lessee of any motor vehicle.
All permits issued pursuant hereto shall be in such form as the Director
shall from time to time determine, shall be expressly conditioned upon permittee's
observance of all federal, state, County and municipal laws, ordinances, rules
and regulations and such directives and procedures as may from time to time
be established by the Director, and shall include such additional terms, conditions
and other provisions as the Director may from time to time reasonably establish
for the public health and safety, the security and good order of the airport,
and the expeditious flow of traffic to, from, at and about the airport.
All persons required to operate under a permit as herein provided shall
drive only upon such ways, and pick up and discharge passengers only at such
locations, and remain thereon only for such periods of time, as the Director
shall from time to time designate and determine.
[Amended 12-13-1990]
The Board of County Commissioners shall establish fees for all courtesy
vehicle service at the airport.
The Director may revoke any permit issued hereunder if the permittee
or any driver or other person in charge of a courtesy vehicle shall violate
any law, ordinance, rule or regulation of any governmental entity (including,
but not limited to, any law, ordinance, rule or regulation pertaining to motor
vehicles), or any provision of the permit, or any rule, regulation, order
or directive established by the Director for the airport. The Director shall
give permittee written notice of revocation, and permittee shall have 30 days
from the date of revocation to appeal such revocation to the Board of County
Commissioners. A permittee whose permit has been revoked shall not be entitled
to any refund of any permit fee paid hereunder.
The County police shall have the power and the duty to enforce this
Part 1, and the Director shall have the power and duty to design and require
the use of such forms, and to establish such procedural rules as he shall
from time to time deem necessary or conducive to the proper and efficient
administration of this Part 1.