§ 20-4. Lettering on commercial vehicles—Definitions.  


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  • The following words and phrases, when used in sections 20-5, 20-6 and 20-7, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except where the context otherwise requires:

    (1)

    Commercial vehicle includes all vehicles, motor vehicles or trailers drawn by motor vehicles, when designed, used or maintained primarily for the delivery or transport of persons or property in the conduct of, or carrying on of, any commercial or business activity for pecuniary gain or profit and where the owner or operator of such business or commercial enterprise is required to obtain a Broward County occupational license pursuant to sections 20-15 through 20-69, as amended, or for the solicitation of business or customers within Broward County.

    (2)

    For-hire vehicles include all motor vehicles, or trailers drawn by motor vehicles, when used for transporting persons, commodities or materials for compensation; let or rented to another for a consideration; offered for rent or hire as a means of transportation for compensation; advertised in a newspaper or generally held out as being for rent or hire; used in connection with a travel bureau or when offered or used to provide transportation for persons solicited through personal contract or advertised on a "share-expense" basis. When freight or passengers are transported in a motor vehicle outside of a municipal corporation of this state, for compensation or when freight is transported in a motor vehicle not owned by the same person owning the said freight, so that there is identity of ownership between the said freight and motor vehicle, such transportation shall be deemed "for hire." The carrying of goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property in motor vehicles by corporations or associations for their stockholders, shareholders and members, cooperative or otherwise, shall be deemed transportation "for hire."

    (3)

    Implement of husbandry: Any vehicle designed and adopted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock-raising operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry and in either case only incidently used upon the highways.

    (4)

    Limousine: Any unmarked motor vehicle not equipped with a taximeter, providing seating accommodations for not more than eight (8) persons, exclusive of the driver, charge for the use of said limousine is determined by the length of time for which said limousine is engaged, or by a charge for each trip fixed by agreement in advance, and where the route or destination is controlled by the passenger.

    (5)

    Motor vehicle: Any vehicle which is self-propelled and by which any person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

    (6)

    Person or individual: Any natural person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation.

    (7)

    State shall refer to and mean the state of Florida and its various departments, agencies and boards.

    (8)

    Street or highway: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.

    (9)

    Taxicab: A motor vehicle designed to accommodate not more than eight (8) passengers, exclusive of the driver, operated for hire only at lawfully prescribed rates recorded and indicated by a taximeter in operation when the vehicle is in use for transportation of any passenger, and the route or destination of which motor vehicle is controlled by the passengers therein.

    (10)

    Vehicle: Any device, in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

(Ord. No. 76-22, § 1(1.01—1.09), 5-4-76; Ord. No. 77-11, § 1, 3-1-77)