Tex.
Occ. Code Section 2402.001
Definitions
(1)
“Department” means the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.(2)
“Digital network” means any online-enabled application, website, or system offered or used by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides between passengers and drivers.(3)
“Digitally prearranged ride” means a ride in a personal vehicle between points chosen by the passenger that is prearranged through a digital network.(4)
“Personal vehicle” means a vehicle that:(A)
is owned, leased, or otherwise authorized for use by a driver; and(B)
is not a taxicab, limousine, or other vehicle regulated by a municipality under Section 215.004 (Taxicabs and Limousines), Local Government Code, or a joint airport board under Section 22.081 (Licensing of Vehicles for Hire and Passenger Transportation Services), Transportation Code.(5)
“Transportation network company” means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that, for compensation, enables a passenger to prearrange with a driver, exclusively through the entity’s digital network, a digitally prearranged ride. The term does not include an entity that provides:(A)
street-hail taxicab services;(B)
limousine or other car services arranged by a method other than through a digital network;(C)
shared expense carpool or vanpool arrangements; or(D)
a type of ride service for which:(i)
the fee received by the driver does not exceed the driver’s costs of providing the ride; or(ii)
the driver receives a fee that exceeds the driver’s costs associated with providing the ride but makes not more than three round-trips per day between the driver’s or passenger’s place of employment and the driver’s or passenger’s home.
Source:
Section 2402.001 — Definitions, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.2402.htm#2402.001 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
