AI-assisted research summary: This section defines key terms used in the Transportation Network Company Services Act.
65-7-2. Definitions. As used in the Transportation Network Company Services Act: A. "digital network" means an internet-supported application, software, program, website or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of transportation by passengers with transportation network company drivers; B. "facilitate" means the connection of a driver to a passenger by a transportation network company for the provision of a prearranged ride; C. "personal vehicle" means a vehicle that is used by a transportation network company driver and is: (1) owned, leased or otherwise authorized for use by a transportation network company driver; and (2) not a taxicab or other vehicle for hire; D. "prearranged ride" means transportation provided by a transportation network company driver, which shall be deemed to commence when a driver accepts a transportation request through a digital network and continue until all passengers have exited from the personal vehicle at the destination requested by the rider. "Prearranged ride" does not include shared-expense vanpool or carpool arrangements or transportation provided using a taxicab, limousine or other vehicle for hire pursuant to the Motor Carrier Act [Chapter 65, Article 2A NMSA 1978]; E. "state's medicaid program" means a state program acting to leverage federal benefits for state residents pursuant to Title 19 or Title 20 of the federal Social Security Act; F. "transportation broker" means an entity under contract with the medical assistance division of the human services department [health care authority department] or a managed care organization that manages transportation benefits under the state's medicaid program; G. "transportation network company" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship or other entity that is licensed pursuant to the Transportation Network Company Services Act and lawfully operating in New Mexico that uses a digital network, but which shall not: (1) be deemed to control, direct or manage the personal vehicles or transportation network company drivers that connect to its digital network except where agreed to by written contract; or (2) include any entity receiving funding to supplement transportation services through Title III B of the federal Older Americans Act of 1965, including any driver for such an entity, but only when the driver is providing those services; H. "transportation network company driver" or "driver" means an individual who: (1) accepts a prearranged ride requested through a digital network and for a fee paid by a transportation network company rider to the transportation network company; and (2) uses a personal vehicle to provide a prearranged ride through a digital network; I. "transportation network company insurance" means a liability insurance policy that specifically covers a transportation network company driver's use of a transportation network company digital network; and J. "transportation network company rider" or "rider" means a person who uses a digital network for a prearranged ride. History: Laws 2016, ch. 80, § 2; 2017, ch. 13, § 1; 2023, ch. 181, § 2.