Section 160-CC. Definitions

As used in this article:
    1.  "Black  car  operator"  means  the  registered owner of a for-hire
  vehicle, or a driver designated by such registered owner to operate  the
  registered owner's for-hire vehicle as the registered owner's authorized
  designee,  whose  injury  arose  out  of  and in the course of providing
  covered services to a central dispatch facility  that  is  a  registered
  member  of  the  New York black car operators' injury compensation fund,
  inc.
    2. "Board" means the workers' compensation board.
    3. "Central dispatch facility"  means  a  central  facility,  wherever
  located, that (a) dispatches the registered owners of for-hire vehicles,
  or  drivers acting as the designated agent of such registered owners, to
  both pick-up  and  discharge  passengers  in  the  state,  and  (b)  has
  certified  to the satisfaction of the department of state that more than
  ninety percent of its for-hire business is on a payment basis other than
  direct cash payment by a passenger; provided, however,  that  a  central
  dispatch  facility shall not include any such central facility that owns
  fifty percent or more of the cars it dispatches.
    4. "Covered services" means, with respect to dispatches from or  by  a
  central dispatch facility located in the state, all dispatches from such
  central  dispatch  facility regardless of where the pick-up or discharge
  occurs, and, with respect to dispatches from or by  a  central  dispatch
  facility  located  outside the state, all dispatches involving a pick-up
  in the state, regardless of where the discharge occurs.
    5. "Department" means the department of state.
    6. "Fund" means the New York black car operators' injury  compensation
  fund, inc.
    7.  "Fund  liability  date"  means  the earlier of: (a) the date as of
  which the board first approves the  fund's  application  to  self-insure
  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section one hundred sixty-ii of this
  article, or (b) the date on which coverage commences under  the  initial
  insurance  policy purchased by the fund pursuant to subdivision three of
  section one hundred sixty-ii of this article.
    8. "Local licensing authority" means the governmental  agency  in  the
  state,  if  any,  that  is  authorized  to  license  a  central dispatch
  facility.
    9. "Secretary" means the secretary of state.