209581 ORDINANCE NO. 20,958
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3 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND LITTLE ROCK, ARK., ORDINANCE NO.
4 20,956 (NOVEMBER 18, 2014) TO CLARIFY THAT SUPRLUS LINES
5 INSURERS ARE CONSIDERED TO MEET THE INSURANCE
6 REQUIREMENT FOR A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY;
7 TO CLARIFY THE INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR A
8 TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY WHEN THE
9 APPLICATION FOR AN AUTOMOBILE TO BE AVAILABLE IS ON BUT
10 NO RIDE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY;
11 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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13 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY
14 OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
15 Section 1. Little Rock, Ark., Rev. Code § 34-20 (a) (1988), as amended, on insurance requirements
16 is hereby amended to read as follows:
17 Section 1. Little Rock, Ark., Rev. Code § 34-20 (a) (1988), as amended, on insurance requirements is
18 hereby amended to read as follows:
19 (a) Insurance requirement. No person, firm or corporation authorized by a permit to this
20 chapter may operate a vehicle for the transportation of passengers within the City, without first
21 securing, and maintaining in force at all times, a commercial auto liability policy insurance policy
22 issued by a company licensed and regulated by the Arkansas Insurance Department or with a
23 surplus lines insurer on the Arkansas Insurance Department maintained list of eligible surplus lines
24 insurers covering each vehicle to be used for the transportation service and in the following
25 amounts:
26 (1) For taxicab franchises, livery vehicles, premium taxicabs, and
27 all executive sedans and antique vehicles: Two Hundred Fifty Thousand
28 Dollars ($250,000.00) for the injury or death of any one (1) person and
29 subject to that limit for each person; Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
30 ($500,000.00) total liability for any one (1) accident; and Two Hundred
31 Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) for each accident regarding
32 damage to property, with a maximum of Fifty Thousand Dollars
33 ($50,000.00) deductible coverage per incident. Said insurance in effect
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1 shall be for demand -response service vehicles, not scheduled or routed
2 service vehicles, and any vehicle used by a Transportation Network
3 Company Driver. It is further provided that for the time period when
4 TNC drivers have logged on to the TNC digital network or software
5 application indicating they are available to receive ride requests until
6 such time as the TNC driver accepts such a request, the TNC driver must
7 be covered by insurance at least in the amount set forth in Arkansas Code
8 27-22-104. These requirements for coverage shall be satisfied by either
9 (A) insurance maintained by a TNC driver; (B) insurance maintained by
10 a TNC in the event the insurance maintained by the TNC driver does not
11 provide coverage, or the TNC driver does not otherwise maintain
12 insurance covering this time period; or (3) any combination of (A) and
13 (B).
14 Section 2. Severability. In the event any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, subparagraph,
15 item, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this ordinance is declared or adjudged to be invalid or
16 unconstitutional, such declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining provisions of this ordinance
17 which shall remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or
18 unconstitutional was not originally a part of this ordinance.
19 Section 3. Repealer. All ordinances and resolutions inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby
20 repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, including but not limited to Little Rock, Ark., Ordinance No.
21 20,956 (November 18, 2014).
22 Section 4. Emergency Clause. It is essential to the public health, safety, and welfare, to assure that
23 all regulations for the operation of public transportation are in effect at the same time; because the initial
24 ordinance on transportation network companies was passed prior to this amendment to address a technical
25 insurance issue, it is important to assure that this provision take effect on the same date as the general
26 ordinance on such services; an emergency is, therefore, declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full
27 force and effect from the date that Little Rock, Ark., Ordinance No. 20,956 (November 19, 2014) is in full
28 force and effect.
29 PASSED: November 25, 2014
30 _ ES '.- APPROVED
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33 Su n LaCi y Clerk Mark Stodola, Mayor
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