CHAPTER 1. GROUND TRANSPORTATION
ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL
1.1 Definitions.
Except as may be otherwise provided herein, and unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) Airport shall mean the Burlington International Airport.
(b) Baggage-handler shall mean a motor vehicle utilized to make casual trips on call or under contract subscribed by the party served for the transporting of baggage only from the airport for compensation. No operator of a baggage-handler shall be allowed to pick up any passengers along the route, nor be permitted on a return trip to carry any passenger.
(c) Bus shall include any motor vehicle operated upon public streets and highways along a regular route, and in such operation receiving, discharging and transporting passengers for hire; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to transportation service the route and destination of which are under the direction and subject to the control of the passengers so transported. No motor vehicle shall be operated as a bus unless the owner thereof has authority to so operate the same from the Interstate Commerce Commission, a mass transit authority or regional transit authority pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 127 and/or has obtained and kept in full force and effect the requisite certificate of public good from the Vermont Transportation Board. Buses shall not be subject to the inspection requirements of this chapter.
(d) Chief shall mean the chief of police of the police department providing service to the airport or his/her designee.
(e) Commission shall mean the board of airport commissioners or its designee.
(f) Contract carrier shall mean a motor vehicle being used to make casual trips on call or under contract subscribed by the party served for the transporting of passengers, baggage or packages for compensation; provided, however, that no operator of a contract carrier shall be allowed to pick up any additional passenger along the route, nor be permitted on the return trip to carry any passenger other than those prearranged and scheduled in the original trip plan. It does not include: (a) motor vehicles regularly used in the business of carrying passengers for hire; and (b) service provided by a bus as defined under these regulations.
(g) Courtesy carrier shall mean a motor vehicle not otherwise defined herein being used regularly for the transportation of customers between the airport and any hotel, motel, auto rental office or parking lot without cost to the passengers. Courtesy carriers shall not be subject to the inspection requirements of this chapter.
(h) Driver or operator shall mean any person who drives, operates or attempts to operate a motor vehicle.
(i) Enforcement officers shall include sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, police officers, state’s attorneys, motor vehicle inspectors, state police and duly authorized employees or contractors employed to assist in the enforcement of airport regulations.
(j) Ground transportation permit shall mean a vehicle permit issued to a vehicle upon application and after payment of the fee and satisfactory inspection. No motor vehicle operated as a courtesy carrier, contract carrier or baggage-handler within the jurisdiction of the airport shall pick up any passengers, packages or baggage at the airport unless the same has been issued, and currently has assigned to it, a valid ground transportation permit.
(k) Ground transportation administrator shall mean the person appointed by the airport or with whom the airport contracts to assist in the enforcement of airport regulations and to provide assistance to the traveling public.
(l) Ground transportation services shall mean the operation of a taxicab, bus, baggage-handler, courtesy carrier, contract carrier or limousine.
(m) Manager shall mean the airport manager or his/her designee.
(n) Motor vehicle or vehicle shall include all vehicles propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power.
(o) Owner shall include any person, corporation, partnership or association holding legal title to a motor vehicle or having exclusive right to the use or control thereof. The owner of a vehicle which is permitted hereunder may utilize the services of employees and shall be fully responsible for insuring that his/her employees comply with the provisions of these rules and regulations.
(p) Person shall include an individual, corporation, association, partnership, company, firm or other aggregation of individuals.
(q) Rate card shall mean a card the format and content of which has been approved by the manager and on which is printed all rates for traveling and waiting time applicable within Chittenden County and those rates applicable within such other areas as a motor vehicle is authorized to travel or routinely travels.
(r) Taxicab or limousine shall mean any motor vehicle regularly used in the business of carrying passengers for hire, with or without baggage, on the public highways of the City of Burlington and/or which receives or discharges passengers within the city limits or upon the grounds of the airport, as more fully defined in and licensed pursuant to section 30-17 of article II of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington.
(s) V.S.A. shall mean the Vermont Statutes Annotated as amended.
(t) Taximeter shall mean an instrument or device by which the charge for hire of a taxicab is calculated and on which such charge is plainly indicated as more fully defined in section 30-17 of article II of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington.
(Reg. of 10-25-93)
1.2 Commission findings and determinations and statement purposes.
(a) The board of airport commissioners of the Burlington International Airport hereby finds, determines and declares:
(1) There is a need for ground transportation between the airport and surrounding areas;
(2) There is a need to improve the quality of airport ground transportation service to the traveling public and to provide more efficient movement and control of motor vehicle traffic at the airport at a reasonable cost;
(3) In order to initiate and operate the ground transportation licensing program it is necessary to collect reasonable fees to cover at a minimum the direct and allocated costs of administering the program.
(b) The board of airport commissioners of the Burlington International Airport further finds, determines and declares that a public purpose would be served and the interests of the traveling public would be promoted by the regulation by the airport of all ground transportation services operating at the airport.
(Reg. of 10-25-93)