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02014-1367
Chicago, April 30, 2014
To the President and Members of the City Council:
Your Committee on License and Consumer Protection, having under consideration a substitute ordinance introduced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Alderman Emma Mitts (which was referred on February 5, 2014), to amend the Municipal Code of Chicago regarding the establishment of a Transportation Network Provider license, begs leave to recommend that Your Honorable Body pass the substitute ordinance which is transmitted herewith.
This recommendation was concurred in by a viva voce vote of the members of the committee, Aldermen Fioretti and Arena opposed, on April 24, 2014.
Respectfully submitted,
MA MITTS CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON LICENSE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
S U B STITUJE ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION I. Title 9 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding a new Chapter 9-115, as follows:
Chapter 9-115 TRANSPORTATION NETWORK PROVIDERS
9-115-010 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply:
"Active driver" means a transportation network driver who has provided service in response to four or more prearranged transportation service requests within a 30-day period.
"Commissioner" means the city's commissioner of business affairs and consumer protection.
"Compensation" means any payment or donation received, or economic or business benefit obtained, for providing a transportation network service.
"Department" means the city's department of business affairs and consumer protection.
"Licensee" or "transportation network licensee" means the holder of, or a person that is required to hold, a transportation network provider license issued pursuant to this chapter.
"License" means a transportation network provider license.
"Operation of a transportation network vehicle" or "operating a transportation network vehicle" or "operate a transportation network vehicle" means offering, mak...
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