Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:467 – Commercial passenger vehicles operated under municipal franchises
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:467
- Commissioner: means the secretary of the Department of Public Safety as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Trailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and designed to be drawn by a truck, tractor, or another motor vehicle and having two or more load carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person, property, or thing is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purpose of this Chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle, and provided further that a trailer or semitrailer shall be held and deemed each to be and constitute a separate vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
Notwithstanding any provision of this Chapter where a bus or passenger coach or passenger carrying trailer or semi-trailer is operated wholly within the corporate limits of an incorporated municipality and also operates within seven miles of the corporate limits thereof under a franchise from the municipality, an annual registration or license tax of three dollars and twenty-five cents ($3.25) per passenger seat shall be collected by the commissioner or through such agency as he might designate. The term “franchise” as used in this section means a legal franchise granted by the governing authority of a municipality, which authorizes the operation of a general public transportation system. Any vehicle licensed and registered for city use only in a municipality of a population of twenty-five hundred or less, and actually maintained and domiciled and kept therein, may be operated beyond the seven mile limit for an occasional trip, in no event to exceed four during each calendar month, provided that such trip be reported to the director of public safety prior to making the said trip.