Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 2 - AIRPORTS DIVISION › Chapter 20.1 - COMMERCIAL SERVICES AT PUBLIC AIRPORT › Subchapter 9 - PREARRANGED GROUND TRANSPORTATION › Section 19-20.1-55 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in
					 this chapter:
"Digital network" means any online-enabled application,
					 software, website, or system offered or utilized by a prearranged ground
					 transportation service that enables a customer's direct prearrangement of a
					 ride with a driver and records data that describe for each driver on the
					 network the following:
(1) The vehicle's registered owner, license plate number,
					 and vehicle identification number or VIN;
(2) Proof of insurance as required by section
					 19-20.1-6;
(3) The total number, date, and time of all rides initiated
					 at a public airport; and
(4) The total receipts earned by each ride initiated at a
					 public airport and an itemization of any tax, tip, and other fees included in
					 the receipts.
"Hotel" includes motel.
"Operator" includes any person who is properly and
					 physically qualified to operate and control any motor or other vehicle in
					 connection with any ground transportation service provided at a public airport
					 by a permittee under this chapter. The operator may be a permittee itself or a
					 qualified employee, contractor, assignee, agent, or other similar
					 representative of the permittee.
"Prearranged ground transportation services" includes the
					 providing or facilitating for hire of a motor vehicle, including off-airport
					 rent-a-car vehicles, at any public airport for the purpose of transporting the
					 hirer of, or passenger in, such motor vehicle and personal property where such
					 hire or transportation was contracted or arranged for by the hirer, passenger,
					 or another on behalf of the hirer or passenger, in advance of the hirer or
					 passenger's arrival at the public airport or, upon or after his arrival at the
					 public airport, by communicating with an operator whose place of business is
					 situated outside the public airport, for ground transportation services to be
					 performed, at least in part, at the public airport.
Prearranged ground transportation services also include
					 passenger transportation services, tours, and courtesy car services for
					 customers and guests upon vehicles owned or leased by the operators even if the
					 services are provided gratuitously or may be an incidental part of another
					 service.
Prearranged ground transportation services do not include
					 the right to solicit, offer, and provide ground transportation services for
					 hire to any person other than to persons for which ground transportation
					 services had been arranged in advance.
"Software application service" shall have the same meaning
					 as the term "Digital network".
"Taxi or taxicab service" includes the service of providing
					 a motor vehicle for hire by the public at, on, or upon a public airport, which
					 motor vehicle shall have a driver other than the hirer and be used for the
					 purpose of transporting the hirer and incidental personal property to a
					 destination and over a route controllable by a hirer.
"Transportation network company" or "TNC" means a person or
					 an entity that uses a digital network or software application service to
					 connect passengers to transportation network company drivers and uses the
					 digital network or software application service to confirm the commercial
					 activity and gross receipts of that activity; provided that the person or
					 entity
(1) does not own, control, operate, or manage the personal
					 vehicles used by transportation network company drivers and
(2) is not a taxicab company or a for-hire vehicle owner.