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File #: 131578    Version: 0
Type: Ordinance Status: Placed On File
File created: 3/4/2014 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 4/14/2020
Effective date:    
Title: An ordinance relating to public passenger vehicle regulations and clarifying definitions.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLES, TAXICABS
Number
131578
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
An ordinance relating to public passenger vehicle regulations and clarifying definitions.
Sections
100-3-6.7 am
100-3-11 am
100-3-19 am
100-3-20 am
100-3-20.5 cr
100-70-3-b-2-e am
Analysis
This ordinance amends public passenger vehicles to clarify the difference between providing passenger services on hail or demand from providing passenger service on a prearranged basis. Hail or on demand service means that a vehicle may be hired by signaling the driver at the point of passenger pickup or by telephone or other electronic means requesting transportation service immediately or in less than 30 minutes from the time of the request.

Prearranged service is defined to mean a request for transportation service for one or more passengers with an agreed time of initial passenger pickup not less than 30 minutes from the time of request.

The definition of plying is clarified to include solicitation of taxicab customers by Internet or other electronic messaging. An application for certification of a taxicab affiliation is required to include a description of all methods to be employed in plying for customers.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 100-3-6.7, 11, 19 and 20 of the code is amended to read:

100-3. Definitions.

6.7. HAIL >>OR ON DEMAND <>for service at the point of passenger pickup or by other means, including telephone or other electronic means requesting transportation service immediately or at a time less than 30 minutes of hail or demand for service<<.

11. LIMOUSINE means a category of for-hire, unmetered, unmarked uniformed, chauffeur-driven, ground transportation vehicles solely engaged in the business of carrying passengers on a [[prereserved]]>>prearranged service<< basis only>> and not on hail or on demand<<.
19. PLYING means solicitation of potential...

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