(1) “Digital dispatch system” means an internet-based software application, website, platform, or interface that allows for the solicitation, arrangement, or provision of vehicle for hire services and the display of rates, calculation of fares, or acceptance of payment for vehicle for hire services.

(2) “Driver” means any individual person who operates a vehicle for hire within the City.

(3) “Limousine” means a luxury motor vehicle for hire whose chassis and wheelbase have been lengthened beyond the original manufacturer’s specifications, whether at the time of production or after.

(4) “Limousine Company” means any person operating one or more limousines for hire, other than as a driver, regardless of the legal form of the entity and regardless of whether the limousines so operated are owned by the company, leased, or owned by individual members of an entity.

(5) “Operators” means a person engaged in the business of furnishing or operating a business defined by this ordinance, whether upon contract or by offering such service to the public generally.

(6) “Taxi” means a motor vehicle for hire, other than a limousine or transportation network vehicle.

(7) “Taxi Company” means any person operating one or more vehicles for hire, other than as a driver, regardless of the legal form of the entity and regardless of whether the taxis so operated are owned by the company, leased, or owned by individual members of an entity. Taxi Companies do not include Transportation Network Companies.

(8) “Transportation Network” means one or more drivers working as independent contractors and utilizing a digital dispatch system, and using personal motor vehicles in the provision of transportation services.

(9) “Transportation Network Company or TNC” means a person that operates or facilitates a transportation network.

(10) “Transportation Network Vehicle or TNV” means a personal motor vehicle which is used as a vehicle for hire and is part of a transportation network.

(11) “Vehicle for Hire” means a motor vehicle used for the ground transportation of passengers for compensation within the City, including taxis, limousines and transportation network vehicles. The following vehicles shall not be considered vehicles for hire for the purposes of this ordinance, and are forbidden from operating as a taxi, limousine, or transportation network vehicle: (a) Ambulances equipped and staffed so as to be capable of providing emergency medical services in conjunction with passenger transportation; (b) Courtesy vehicles used by a hotel, motel, car rental company, residential home, parking facility, or other business to transport that business' clients when transportation is secondary to the business' primary purpose and the transportation is free or contained in the general overhead of the business; (c) Non-motorized vehicles such as horse-drawn vehicles; (d) Property delivery vehicles used for delivering property exclusive of passenger transportation; (e) Shuttle vehicles and buses used for providing passenger transportation over a fixed route and time schedule; and (f) Volunteer-driven vehicles operated by a driver who is reimbursed for basic mileage expenses and who does not receive wages, salary, or other compensation.

(12) “Vehicle for hire agency” means a business engaged in furnishing or providing one or more vehicles for hire through a digital dispatch system or by any other means, regardless of whether such business has employees or delivers its services through independent contractors, including a transportation network company.

(13) “Vehicle for hire driver” means a person who carries on the vocation of driving a vehicle for hire.