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COUNCIL ORDINANCENO. 20549
COUNCIL BILL 5136
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLE
SERVICES LICENSURE AND FARES; AMENDING SECTION
3.345 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
ADOPTED:February 9, 2015
SIGNED:February 13, 2015
PASSED:8:0
REJECTED:
OPPOSED:
ABSENT:
EFFECTIVE: February 13, 2015
ORDINANCE NO. 20549
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLE SERVICES
LICENSURE AND FARES; AMENDING SECTION3.345 OF THE EUGENE
CODE, 1971; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1
.Subsections 1 through 6 of Section 3.345of the Eugene Code, 1971, are
amended to provide:
3.345Public Passenger Vehicle Services -License and/or Permit Required
.
(1)
Licensure Requirements.
(a)No person or business may operate a public passenger vehicle
company without a public passenger vehicle company license; however,
an unlicensed public passenger vehicle operating outside the
jurisdictional limits of Eugene and Springfield may deliver a fare from
outside those limits to a location within the limits, and if the vehicle waits
for the person, retrieve the person for the return trip back outside the
jurisdictional limits.
(b)No person or business may connect, or attempt to connect, a
prospective passenger to a vehicle for hire by providing a digital or
software application scheduling platform or service without first obtaining
a public passenger vehicle company license.
(c)Unless driving a vehicle for hire for a person or business that has
obtained a public passenger vehicle company license, no person may
drive a vehicle for hire without first obtaining a public passenger vehicle
company license.
(d)Noperson or business required to obtain a public passenger vehicle
license may solicit or accept any passenger within the city limits except
as provided in this subsection.
(e)No public passenger vehicle may operate at the Eugene Airport unless
authorized by the Airport to do so.
(2)
No person or business required under subsection (1) of this section to obtain
apublic passenger vehicle company license may use in its operation a
motorized vehicle which lacks a public passenger vehicle permit.
(3)
No person may drive a motorized public passenger vehicle, and no business
required to obtain a public passenger vehicle company license may hire a
person as a driver, either as an employee or an independent contractor,
unless that person possesses a valid public passenger vehicle driver
certification. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a person who has applied for
such a certification may drive a taxicab if the person has obtained from the
city a temporary certification; such certification shall not be valid for more
than 30 days, or until the city grants or denies the person's application for a
public passenger vehicle driver certification, whichever is sooner.
(4)
No public passenger vehicle company may locate any part of its operation in
a residential zone unless expressly authorized by the city manager or
designee pursuant to this code or the Springfield Code.
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