- Metro Transportation Licensing Fee units guidelines for celebration autos
In a crowded jury meeting room, Mayor John Cooper stood earlier than the Metro Transportation Licensing Fee and spoke sturdy phrases.
“It is time to regulate the celebration,” he stated.
Cooper, together with At-Massive Council Member Bob Mendes, appeared earlier than the fee’s month-to-month assembly Thursday to be placed on document in regards to the draft guidelines for Nashville’s leisure autos.
The Mayor requested for an 11 p.m. curfew and restrictions throughout rush hour. He stated he noticed no purpose to have unenclosed autos on Nashville’s streets. These had been simply two of the problems the fee took up in the course of the almost six-hour assembly.
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The fee handed nearly all of their draft rules Thursday however declined to approve a key part defining enclosed and unenclosed leisure autos.
The choice got here after heavy dialogue about requiring the entire autos to be enclosed, banning unenclosed leisure autos completely.
Trade operators have complained that enclosing the autos might result in harmful warmth in passenger areas as airflow can be restricted.
Members of the Fee questioned if tour buses, a few of that are open-air, can be required to stick to the identical guidelines as unenclosed leisure autos. Cooper urged the council to contemplate a separate classification for tour autos.
The fee opted to order their approval on the part relating to enclosed and unenclosed autos till there’s a separate provision for tour buses.
Throughout his remarks, Cooper lambasted unenclosed leisure autos.
“I don’t see why this fee ought to problem any permits for unenclosed autos, which pose higher security dangers and disruption,” Cooper stated. “And as you identify what number of permits to award, I wish to level out that any quantity higher than zero is already a compromise.”
The foundations handed Thursday won’t go into impact till the fee opinions the allow purposes submitted by the leisure car corporations, Director Billy Fields stated. They will possible take up these purposes at its June assembly.
The fee made a number of amendments to the remaining guidelines earlier than adopting them. The modifications are as follows:
- Beneath insurance coverage necessities: elevated the legal responsibility insurance coverage requirement for autos with lower than 16 passengers from $1.5 million to $2 million.
- Beneath insurance coverage necessities: elevated the uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage protection for bodily harm, accidents and property injury every to $1 million.
- Beneath insurance coverage necessities: elevated all insurance coverage necessities for tractors or vans pulling trailers/wagons to $2 million.
- Beneath car operations: added a provision that if there’s a crash, MNPD will deal with drug screens for the motive force when there may be suspected exercise, in any other case a driver can be required to take a drug check inside three hours of a licensed lab opening for enterprise.
- Beneath autos: eliminated a rule banning the show of offensive or inappropriate phrases, phrases, symbols, objects or pictures.
- Beneath sound: eliminated a rule requiring sound monitoring gadgets able to documenting sound degree above permitted ranges.
- Beneath violations: rewrote a rule to exclude 21 yr olds from the chaperone requirement.
Contact Tennessean reporter Kirsten Fiscus at 615-259-8229 or [email protected]. Comply with her on Twitter @KDFiscus.
