New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter IV - Syracuse Regional Airport Authority › Part 175 - Commercial Ground Transportation Operations › Section 175.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
Airport
shall mean Syracuse Hancock International Airport,
				located at 1000 Colonel Eileen Collins Boulevard, Syracuse, NY.
(b)
Buses-scheduled
shall
				mean an un-metered passenger vehicle for hire, which carries over 15 passengers
				and is licensed as a bus by the New York State Motor Vehicles Department, and
				which is operated on a scheduled basis to transport passengers between the
				airport and a primary service point, and may serve additional points other than
				its primary service point.
(c)
Buses-non-scheduled
shall mean an un-metered passenger vehicle
				for hire, which carries over 15 passengers and is licensed as a bus by the New
				York State Motor Vehicles Department, and which is operated as a charter
				service on a non-scheduled basis to transport passengers between the airport
				and designated sites off airport property.
(d)
Campus shuttles
shall
				mean an educational institution or association having affiliations therewith
				engaged in the operation of a motor vehicle operated for the exclusive use and
				convenience of its students and faculty and used to carry students or faculty
				between the airport and the educational institution without charge.
(e)
Commercial ground transportation
				operator
or
operator
shall mean a person or
				enterprise engaged in any type of commercial ground transportation
				service.
(f)
Commercial
				ground transportation service
shall mean the operation of any of the
				categories of service listed in section
				175.1 of this Part.
(g)
Airport ground transportation
				agreement
shall mean an agreement between the SRAA and a commercial
				ground transportation operator which authorizes the operator to provide
				specified services at the airport.
(h)
Cruising
shall mean the
				unnecessary circling of the terminal area or driving along airport roadways, or
				walking through the terminal building, with the express purpose of soliciting
				passengers.
(i)
Dispatcher
shall mean an individual employed by the holder of
				an exclusive license to provide walk-up customer taxicab services at the
				airport.
(j)
Driver
means any person driving a ground transportation
				vehicle, whether independently or for a ground transportation service
				operator.
(k)
Executive
				director
means the executive director of the Syracuse Regional Airport
				Authority, or his/her designee.
(l)
Hotel/motel shuttles
shall mean the operation of a motor
				vehicle by a hotel/motel for transportation of the hotel/motel's patrons solely
				from the airport to the hotel and to the hotel from the airport and operated
				without cost to the passengers.
(m)
Solicitation
means the initiation of a conversation or other
				form of communication by a driver, representative, employee or agent of a
				ground transportation service with any potential customer for the purpose of
				enticing or persuading said customer to use any service or facilities provided
				by a ground transportation service.
(n)
Taxicab
shall mean a
				motor vehicle, with or without a taximeter, having a seating capacity of not
				more than eight persons, in addition to the driver, and used in the business of
				transporting passengers for compensation from one point to another and not on a
				fixed route.
(o)
Transportation network company (TNC)
means a company or
				organization operating in New York that provides transportation services using
				an online enabled platform to connect passengers with TNC drivers using their
				personal vehicles.
(p)
Waybill
means a document prepared in advance of a ground
				transportation vehicle's arrival at the airport passenger pick-up zone stating
				the name of the operator, the ground transportation vehicle license plate
				number, the name and address of the person requesting the charter and the
				name(s) of the customer(s) if different, the date and time the charter was
				arranged, the number of persons in the party, the time of the scheduled
				customer pickup and the airline and flight number on which the customer is
				scheduled to arrive and the points of origin and destination of the
				transportation services. For a transportation network company, a
waybill
means the prearranged reservation made between the
				passenger and the driver on the TNC application.