2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    §  20-372 Definitions. Whenever used in this subchapter, the following
  terms shall mean:
    1. "Owner" shall include any person, firm, partnership, corporation or
  association owning and operating a sight-seeing bus or buses,  or  horse
  drawn  cab  or cabs, and shall include a purchaser under a reserve title
  contract, conditional sales agreement  or  vendor's  agreement  and  the
  lessee  of  such  vehicle  or  vehicles under a written lease or similar
  contract provided such purchaser or lessee of sight-seeing bus or  buses
  shall  be  entitled  to  obtain in his or her name a license or licenses
  therefor from the commissioner of motor vehicles of  the  state  of  New
  York.
    2.  "Sight-seeing  bus  license" shall designate the license issued by
  the commissioner for each sight-seeing bus.
    3.  "Inspection  card"  shall  designate  the  card  issued   by   the
  commissioner  for  the  sight-seeing  bus  licensed  or  horse drawn cab
  licensed, which card shall display the license number  and  capacity  of
  such vehicle.
    4.   "Sight-seeing  bus"  shall  mean  a  motor  vehicle  designed  to
  comfortably seat and carry eight or more passengers operating  for  hire
  from  a  fixed  point  in  the  city of New York to a place or places of
  interest or amusements, and shall also include a  vehicle,  designed  as
  aforesaid  which  by  oral  or  written  contract  is  let  and hired or
  otherwise engaged for its exclusive use for a specific or  special  trip
  or excursion from a starting point within the city of New York.
    5.  "Horse  drawn  cab" shall mean a horse drawn vehicle operating for
  hire, so designed and constructed to comfortably seat not more than four
  adults, or two adults and four children, each of whom  is  under  twelve
  years  of  age,  or three adults and two children, each of whom is under
  twelve years of age, in the interior thereof.
    6. "Horse drawn cab driver" shall include any person licensed to drive
  a horse drawn cab in the city of New York.
    7. "Horse drawn cab license" shall designate the license issued by the
  commissioner for each horse drawn cab.
    8. "Horse drawn cab driver's  license"  shall  designate  the  license
  issued by the commissioner for a driver of a horse drawn cab.
    9.  "Certificate of conformity" shall mean that document issued by the
  Administrator of  the  United  States  environmental  protection  agency
  pursuant  to  section  206(a)  of  the  Clean Air Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C.
  &#1677525(a), reflecting such Administrator's determination that  an  engine
  conforms  to  emissions  standards  and  other  regulations issued under
  section 202 of the Clean Air Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. &#1677521,  as  well  as
  the  terms and the time periods prescribed thereon, and as such laws and
  such regulations may be amended from time to time.
    10. "Fleet" shall mean a group of vehicles owned or  operated  by  the
  same person.