Arizona Laws 28-9556. Transportation network services; civil penalty; street hails prohibited; records
A. A transportation network company driver shall accept rides booked and paid for exclusively through a transportation network company’s digital network or software application. The department may impose a civil penalty of not more than one thousand five hundred dollars per violation against any transportation network company driver who is found to be soliciting or accepting street hails.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-9556
- Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Digital network or software application: means any online-enabled application, software, website or system that is offered or used by a transportation network company and that enables a potential passenger to arrange a ride with a transportation network company driver. See Arizona Laws 28-9551
- Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Transportation network company: means an entity that has been issued a permit pursuant to this article, that operates in this state, that uses a digital network or software application to connect passengers to transportation network services provided by transportation network company drivers and that may but is not deemed to own, operate or control a personal motor vehicle of a transportation network company driver. See Arizona Laws 28-9551
- Transportation network company driver: means an individual who receives connections to potential passengers and related services from a transportation network company in exchange for payment of a fee to the transportation network company and who operates a motor vehicle that is both of the following:
(a) Owned, leased or otherwise authorized for use by the individual. See Arizona Laws 28-9551
B. A transportation network company shall maintain individual trip records for at least one year after the date each trip was provided and transportation network company driver records until the one-year anniversary of the date of the driver’s activation on the transportation network company’s digital network or software application has ended and shall make the records available to the department on request.