Sec. 3.
As used in this act:
(a) “Certificate of authority” means a certificate of authority issued under the terms of this act unless the context indicates otherwise.
(b) “Department” means the state transportation department.
(c) “For hire” means the remuneration or reward of any kind, paid or promised, either directly or indirectly.
(d) “Lessor” means a person who leases a limousine to any other person for the transportation of passengers for hire over the public highways of this state.
(e) “Limousine” means a self-propelled motor vehicle used in the carrying of passengers and the baggage of the passengers for hire upon a public highway of this state with a seating capacity of 15 passengers or less, including the driver. Limousine does not include a self-propelled motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 15 passengers or less that is used by or on behalf of an employer to transport its employees to and from their place of employment.
(f) “Limo carrier of passengers” means a person who, either directly or through any device or arrangement, holds himself or herself out to the public as willing to undertake for hire to transport by limousine from place to place over the public highways of this state persons who may choose to employ him or her for that purpose.
(g) “Motor vehicle service and repair act” means Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1974, being sections 257.1301 to 257.1340 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
(h) “Person” means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity or the lessee, trustee, or receiver of any of these entities; this state; a city, village, township, or county; the federal government; or an employee, officer, or agent of any of these units of government.
(i) “Public highway” means a highway, road, street, avenue, alley, or thoroughfare of any kind, or a bridge, tunnel, or subway used by the public.
(j) “The public” means that part or portion of the general public which the limo carrier is ready, able, willing, and equipped to serve.
(k) “Through any device or arrangement” means any and all methods, means, agreements, circumstances, operations, or subterfuges under which a person undertakes for hire to conduct, direct, control, or otherwise perform the transportation of passengers by limousine upon the public highways of this state.
History: 1990, Act 271, Imd. Eff. Dec. 3, 1990
Last modified: October 10, 2016