Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2021-2861

• Record #: SO2021-2861
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 6/25/2021
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Committees and Rules
• Final action: 10/14/2021
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Title 9 by modifying Sections 9-52-070 and 9-52-130 and adding new Chapter 9-103 entitled "Scooter Sharing"
• Sponsors: Brookins, Jr., Howard
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 52 Bicycles-Operation, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 103 Scooter Sharing

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
10/14/2021	37486	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
10/13/2021		Committee on Transportation and Public Way	Recommended to Pass
10/13/2021		Committee on Transportation and Public Way	Substituted in Committee
7/21/2021	32804	City Council	Re-Referred
7/20/2021		Committee on Committees and Rules	Recommended for Re-Referral
6/25/2021	32608	City Council	Referred

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THECITY OF CHICAGO:


SECTION 1. Title 9 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding a new Chapter 9-103, as follows:


CHAPTER 9-103 SCOOTER SHARING

9-103-010 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
"Commissioner" means the City's Commissioner of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.
"Department" means the City's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.
"License" means a scooter sharing license issued pursuant to this chapter.
"Licensee" means the holder of, or a person that is required to hold, a scooter sharing license issued pursuant to this chapter.
"Lock-to scooter" means a scooter which has a mechanism that enables the scooter to be locked to a fixed physical object when a scooter user ends a scooter trip.
"Place of business in the City of Chicago" means a location in the City where (1) the City may send, and the licensee shall accept, notices of hearing or other notices from the City; and (2) the licensee maintains its business and financial records relating to its license.
"Scooter sharing business" means any business that provides the renting of, or access to, scooters in the City, where the storage and renting ofthe scooters is performed from the public way, including scooter trips that start or end on the public way.
"Scooter trip" means the period that commences when a scooter user unlocks a scooter and ends when the scooter user finishes using the scooter and locks the scooter to a fixed physical object to make it available for other scooter users.
"Scooter user" means any individual who rents, or who has access to, a scooter provided by a licensee pursuant to a license issued under this chapter.
"Scooter" means a low-speed electric mobility device, as that term is defined in Section 9-4-010 of this Code.
9-103-020 Scooter sharing license - Required.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this sec...