Pennsylvania Code › Title 67 - TRANSPORTATION › Part I - Department of Transportation › Subpart B - Nonvehicle Code Provisions › Article II - Mass Transit › Chapter 425 - SHARED-RIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICE REIMBURSEMENT › Section 425.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Act
-The Pennsylvania Urban Mass
						Transportation Law (55 P. S. §§
												600.101-600.407).
Area agency on aging
-The local agency
						designated within a planning and service area to administer the delivery of a
						comprehensive and coordinated plan of social and other services and
						activities.
Contractor
-The eligible applicant under
						§
											425.3 (relating to eligible
						applicants) or a coordinator responsible for shared-ride services.
County transportation system
-Buses, vans
						or other vehicles purchased, maintained and operated by a county and used to
						provide free or reduced rate transportation within the county to persons 65
						years of age or older.
Demand-responsive
-Services which are
						available only upon advance reservation by the passenger.
Department
-The Department of
						Transportation of the Commonwealth.
Health care facility
-A general or
						special hospital including tuberculosis and psychiatric hospitals,
						rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, kidney disease treatment
						centers, intermediate care facilities, drug or alcohol abuse or dependence
						centers, county health departments, community mental health centers, mental
						retardation centers and ambulatory surgical facilities. These facilities are
						both profit and nonprofit and include those operated by State or local
						governments. The term does not include offices used exclusively for private or
						group practice by health care practitioners and facilities providing health
						care services exclusively to a religious organization or for persons in the
						religious profession.
Live vehicle hours
-The number of clock
						hours vehicles are used in providing shared-ride transportation services and
						passengers are on board the vehicle.
Local transportation organization
-A
						political subdivision or mass transportation, port, redevelopment or airport
						authority organized under the statutes of the Commonwealth or under an
						interstate compact or otherwise empowered to render, contract for the rendering
						or assist in the rendering of transportation service in a limited area of this
						Commonwealth, even though it may render or assist in rendering transportation
						service in adjacent states.
Nonambulatory persons
-Persons 65 years
						of age or older who are confined to wheelchairs, require the use of a lift or
						ramp in order to board and exit a van or small bus, or who, because of mental
						disability, are unable to travel alone and require the assistance of an escort,
						who cannot also serve as the driver, employed by the contractor.
Nonambulatory service
-Service to persons
						who, because of a physical disability, require the use of vehicles specially
						equipped with wheelchair lifts or ramps.
Nonprofit social service organization
-A
						nonprofit corporation organized exclusively for the purpose of promoting social
						welfare or for charitable purposes, excluding organizations primarily concerned
						with providing religious or spiritual services.
PACE
-The Pharmaceutical Assistance
						Contract for the Elderly program (62 P. S. §§
												2901-2908).
Program
-Grants authorized by section
						203(5)(ii) and (iii) of the act (55 P. S. §
												600.203(5)(ii)
						and (iii)).
Senior citizen
-A person 65 years of age
						or older.
Shared-ride
-Public transportation
						services which include demand-responsive transportation that is available to
						the general public, operates on a nonfixed-route basis and charges a fare to
						riders. The term does not include exclusive ride taxi or call or demand
						service, charter, special excursion and sightseeing service, nonpublic
						transportation, and school bus or limousine service. The first farepaying
						passenger to enter the public transportation vehicle may not refuse to share
						the vehicle with other passengers during a given trip.
Transportation company
-A person, firm or
						corporation rendering public passenger or public passenger and mail
						transportation service, with or without the rendering of other service, in this
						Commonwealth under common carrier authorization from the Pennsylvania Public
						Utility Commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission. The term includes a
						person, firm or corporation arranging for public passenger or public passenger
						and mail service and includes service offered under broker authorization from
						the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission or the Interstate Commerce
						Commission.
Urbanized area
-An area so designated by
						the United States Bureau of Census and considered as such under the Urban Mass
						Transportation Act of 1964 (49 U.S.C.A. §§
												1601 -
						1618).