Chapter 423

2003 -- H 6423

Enacted 08/06/03

A N A C T

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - - TAXICABS AND LIMITED

PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLES

Introduced By: Representatives Menard, Gallison, and T Brien

Date Introduced: May 07, 2003

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Sections 39-14-11, 39-14-20, 39-14-21 and 39-14-22 of the General Laws

in Chapter 39-14 entitled "Taxicabs and Limited Public Motor Vehicles" are hereby amended to

read as follows:

39-14-11. Penalties for violations. -- (a) Any person or the officers of any association or

corporation who shall violate any provision of sections 39-14-1 -- 39-14-14, 17, 39-14-20 (b), 39-

14-25 and 39-14-26, or any order, rule, or regulation adopted or established under any provision,

shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100) or imprisoned not more than sixty (60)

days or both, and his or her certificate may be revoked, and the violation shall be a separate and

distinct offense for each day during which it shall continue.

      (b) The administrator may in his or her discretion in addition to seeking criminal

sanctions, impose upon its regulated taxicabs and limited public motor vehicles an administrative

civil penalty (fine) in addition to revoking or suspending the taxicab's and limited public motor

vehicle's operating authority as conferred under this chapter. The fine shall not exceed one

thousand dollars ($1,000) per each violation of the sections contained in this chapter or the

division's orders, rules and regulations issued and promulgated thereunder.

39-14-20. Licensing of operators. -- (a) No person shall operate a taxicab or limited

public motor vehicle upon the public highways until the person shall have first obtained an

operator's license as provided for in chapter 10 of title 31. , and shall also have obtained a special

license from the division of motor vehicles to operate a taxicab or limited public motor vehicle

under such rules and regulations as the division shall require.

(b) Further, no person shall operate a taxicab or limited public motor vehicle upon the

highways until the person shall have first obtained a special license from the division of public

utilities and carriers under such rules and regulations as the division of public utilities and carriers

shall require.

39-14-21. Penalty for violations. -- Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the

provisions of sections 39-14-15 18 -- 39-14-20 (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than

fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) for each violation.

39-14-22. Enforcement of provisions. -- The administrator of the division of motor

vehicles shall enforce the provisions of sections 39-14-15 18, -- 39-14-23. 39-14-19, 39-14-20

(a), 39-14-21, and 39-14-22.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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