[Adopted 3-22-1979]
As used in this Part 1, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Pittsburgh International Airport, as it now exists or hereafter
may be changed, modified or expanded.
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.
The County of Allegheny.
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.
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.
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.
Any person who has been issued a permit by the Director to operate
a courtesy vehicle pursuant to this Part 1.
Every natural person, partnership, association and corporation who
is an owner, operator or lessee of any motor vehicle.
A.
No person shall drive or cause to be driven any courtesy
vehicle upon the premises of the airport, or provide or cause to be provided
any courtesy vehicle service to passengers or other persons at the airport
unless a written permit shall have been first obtained for such courtesy vehicles
from the Director, as hereinbelow provided, the fee hereinbelow established
for such permit shall have been paid, and there shall be displayed on the
courtesy vehicle such evidence of the permit as the Director shall from time
to time determine, in such manner as the Director shall from time to time
determine.
B.
No person shall drive or cause to be driven any courtesy
vehicle upon the premises of the airport, or provide or cause to be provided
any courtesy vehicle service to passengers or other persons at the airport
in violation of any of the terms, conditions or other provisions of a permit
issued pursuant to this Part 1, or under color of an expired or revoked permit.
A.
Any person desiring to drive any courtesy vehicle upon the premises of the airport or to provide any courtesy vehicle service to passengers or other persons at the airport shall first obtain a written permit from the Director. Each person wishing to obtain a permit shall make written application therefor to the Director in such form as the Director shall prescribe, setting forth the name, address, telephone and type of business of applicant, the types of vehicles to be used, the vehicle identification number and state vehicle registration number of each vehicle, and such other information as the Director may require. Each application shall be accompanied by cash or by a check or money order payable to the County of Allegheny, in the amount determined in accordance with the provisions of § 705-6 hereof.
B.
The Director shall, within a reasonable time after the receipt of the permit application and fee described in Subsection A above, issue to the applicant a courtesy vehicle permit valid for one calendar year or the remaining portion of any calendar year, unless it shall appear that:
(1)
The application is incomplete.
(2)
The application contains false statements by applicant.
(3)
The permit is sought in furtherance of or in connection
with some unlawful enterprise or activity.
(4)
Due to the nature, size, configuration or other characteristic
of the courtesy vehicle, it can reasonably be expected that the granting of
the permit would create a threat to the health or safety of persons or property
in or about the airport, or would be likely to interfere with the safe, orderly
and expeditious flow of traffic to, from, at or about the airport.
(5)
The applicant is in violation of a previously issued
courtesy vehicle permit.
C.
In the event that a permit application hereunder is denied,
the Director shall give prompt written notice thereof to the applicant advising
of the reason for the denial, and shall refund to applicant the permit fee
submitted by applicant in connection with the application. The applicant shall
have 30 days from the date of denial to appeal such denial to the Board of
County Commissioners.
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.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The current fees for airport courtesy vehicle service
are on file in the County offices.
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.
A.
Any person violating any provision of this Part 1 shall,
upon conviction thereof at a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine
not in excess of $100 to be paid to the use of the County, with costs of prosecution,
or to be imprisoned in the County jail for not more than 30 days.
B.
In addition to any sums paid pursuant to Subsection A of this section, any person violating any provision of this Part 1 may, at the discretion of the County, be required to pay a fine of $500, which fine may be collected by suit brought in the name of the County in like manner as like amount may be sued for.
C.
Each violation hereunder shall constitute a separate
offense subject to the penalties and fines set forth in this section.
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.
