Effective 28 Aug 2002

67.1806. Membership of commission, appointments. — 1. The regional taxicab commission shall consist of a chairperson plus eight members, four of whom shall be appointed by the chief executive of the city with approval of the board of aldermen, and four of whom shall be appointed by the chief executive of the county with approval of the governing body of the county. Of the eight members first appointed, one city appointee and one county appointee shall be appointed to a four-year term, two city appointees and two county appointees shall be appointed to a three-year term, and one city appointee and one county appointee shall be appointed to a one-year term. Members appointed after the expiration of these initial terms shall serve a four-year term. The chief executive officer of the city and the chief executive officer of the county shall alternately appoint a chairperson who shall serve a term of three years. The respective chief executive who appoints the members of the commission shall appoint members to fill unexpired terms resulting from any vacancy of a person appointed by that chief executive. All members and the chairperson must reside within the district while serving as a member. All members shall serve without compensation. Nothing shall prohibit a representative of the taxicab industry from being chairperson.

2. In making the eight appointments set forth in subsection 1 of this section, the chief executive officer of the city and the chief executive officer of the county shall collectively select four representatives of the taxicab industry. Such four representatives of the taxicab industry shall include at least one from each of the following:

(1) An owner or designated assignee of a taxicab company which holds at least one but no more than one hundred taxicab licenses;

(2) An owner or designated assignee of a taxicab company which holds at least one hundred one taxicab licenses or more;

(3) A taxicab driver, excluding any employee or independent contractor of a company currently represented on the commission.

­­The remaining five commission members shall be designated "at large" and shall not be a representative of the taxicab industry or be the spouse of any such person nor be an individual who has a direct material or financial interest in such industry. If any representative of the taxicab industry resigns or is otherwise unable to serve out the term for which such representative was appointed, a similarly situated representative of the taxicab industry shall be appointed to complete the specified term.

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(L. 2002 H.B. 1041)