ARTICLE III. FEES

3.1 Per-trip fees.

Except as provided in paragraph B hereof, all motor vehicles providing ground transportation services and picking up passengers, packages or baggage at the airport shall pay a per trip fee of fifty cents ($0.50). The per-trip fee shall be deposited in a coin-control unit established for that purpose; except that in the event the same is inoperable; payment shall be made directly to the ground transportation administrator. No person may place or attempt to place in such coin-operated machine a slug, foreign coin or object other than the coin required by the instructions on the machine or pass through, over, under or by such coin-operated machine without first depositing the required coin.

(Reg. of 10-25-93)

3.2 Exemptions from per-trip fees.

The following are exempt from the per-trip fee:

(1)    Taxicabs or limousines having a valid queue permit unless they are picking up a passenger in response to a call or under contract;

(2)    Courtesy vehicles;

(3)    Buses;

(4)    Baggage-handlers.

(Reg. of 10-25-93)

3.3 Permit fees.

(a)    The annual permit fee is the fee payable for each motor vehicle receiving a ground transportation or queue permit. The annual fee for each ground transportation or queue permit shall be as follows:

(1)    Five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each taxicab or limousine queue permit;

(2)    One hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00) for each courtesy carrier; provided, however, that for each additional courtesy carrier owned by the same permittee, the fee shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00);

(3)    One hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00) for each contract carrier;

(4)    Five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each baggage-handler.

Each motor vehicle shall be issued its own permit.

(b)    The above fees may be modified by the commission by resolution adopted at a duly warned meeting.

(Reg. of 10-25-93)