IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Every business, vehicle and driver operating for-hire within Broome County MUST be licensed with the Security Division. A vehicle providing “medical transportation” is not an exempt vehicle, and the business/vehicle/driver require licensing.
EXEMPT VEHICLE – Any motor vehicle which is used for commercial transportation purposes
for charge or hire by paying passengers or persons for whom a fare has been paid but which is,
or is being used as, an ambulance; a truck carrying freight or otherwise engaged in interstate
commerce; a van or other like vehicle used for transportation of disabled, frail or elderly persons;
a bus or van used for school or educational purposes; a bus or other vehicle used for mass transit;
or a vehicle being used in a funeral or for such other purpose as the law or the Director may
determine to be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Notwithstanding this definition,
taxicabs providing transportation services under the New York State Medicaid program are not
exempt vehicles and must comply with all requirements of this chapter, unless expressly provided
otherwise.
Passengers
Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
Drivers/Owners
§ 336-1. Applicability.
This chapter shall apply to all taxicabs, limousines ( except where exempted), vans and/or other vehicles, utilized in the business of transporting passengers for compensation, as defined herein, which nonexclusively load or discharge passengers in the County of Broome and the taxicab drivers and operators of those vehicles. For purposes of this chapter, the actions of taxicab drivers shall be treated as actions of the owner of said vehicles.
