Section 160-AAA. Definitions

For the purposes of this article:
    1.   "Independent  livery  driver"  means  a  livery  driver  that  is
  dispatched by an independent livery base.
    2. "Annualized basis" means  the  product  of  the  number  of  livery
  drivers  affiliated  with  a  dispatching  livery base and the number of
  months each such driver is affiliated with the livery base,  divided  by
  twelve.
    3.  "Covered  services"  means  all  dispatches  from  a  livery  base
  regardless of where the pick-up or discharge occurs.
    4.  "Fund"  means  the  independent  livery  driver  benefit  fund  as
  established in this article.
    5.  "Independent  livery  base"  has  the same meaning as set forth in
  section eighteen-c of the workers' compensation law.
    6. "Livery" means a for-hire vehicle licensed  by  a  local  taxi  and
  limousine  commission,  carrying  no  more  than five passengers or such
  other limited number as set by a local taxi  and  limousine  commission,
  which  charges  for  service on the basis of flat rate, time, mileage or
  zones, and which is dispatched by a livery dispatch facility, but  shall
  not  include  a  vehicle  owned  or  driven  by a black car operator, as
  defined in article six-F of this chapter.
    7. "Livery driver" means  an  individual  that  drives  a  livery,  is
  dispatched by a livery base, receives compensation for such driving, and
  is licensed to do so by a local taxi and limousine commission.
    8.  "Livery  base" means a central facility that manages, organizes or
  dispatches liveries, and is licensed to  do  so  by  a  local  taxi  and
  limousine commission.
    9.  "Livery  registrant"  means  a  person  in  whose name a livery is
  licensed by a local taxi and limousine commission.
    10. "Local taxi and  limousine  commission"  means  a  unit  of  local
  government  in  New  York  city,  Nassau  county  or  Westchester county
  authorized to license and regulate liveries.