Rhode Island General Laws 39-13-1. Definitions
(a) “Coordinated paratransit services” means paratransit services coordinated by the department of transportation, to be provided under a brokerage or other contractual model to provide, promote, and coordinate new or existing paratransit operations to enable all state, municipal, and private agencies access to appropriate paratransit services.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 39-13-1
- Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Street railway: means and includes every railway by whatsoever power operated or any extension or extensions, branch, or branches thereof, for public use in the conveyance in this state of persons or property for compensation, being mainly upon, along, above, or below any street, avenue, road, highway, bridge, or public place in any city or town, and including all switches, spurs, tracks, rights of trackage, subways, tunnels, stations, terminals, and terminal facilities of every kind, used, operated, controlled, or owned by or in connection with any street railway. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
(b) “Jitney” means and includes any motor bus or other public-service motor vehicle operated in whole or in part upon any street or highway in such manner as to afford a means of transportation similar to that afforded by a street railway company, by indiscriminately receiving or discharging passengers; or running on a regular route or over any portion thereof; or between fixed termini.
(c) “Paratransit services” means flexible transportation services provided on a demand-responsive and advance-reservation basis, for any destination within the scope of a service program provided by a state or municipal agency, the fee for which is determined pursuant to a contract between the service provider and the state or municipal agency. Paratransit includes single or group trips or trips made on a recurring basis such as for work, school, medical, nutrition, and sheltered workshops.
(d) “Public-service motor vehicle” shall include all motor vehicles as defined in § 31-1-3, used for the transportation of passengers for hire.
(e) “Transportation operator(s)” means an entity(ies) providing flexible transportation services that are operated publicly or privately, and are distinct from conventional fixed-route, fixed-schedule transit, and are generally operated with low-capacity vehicles that provide curb-to-curb or door-to-door service that typically involves transportation of elderly, disabled, low-income, or the otherwise transportation-dependent population.
History of Section.
P.L. 1922, ch. 2221, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 254, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 125, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 1, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 39-13-1; P.L. 1992, ch. 279, § 1.