For the purposes of this article: 1. 'Independent livery driver' means a livery driver that is dispatched by an independent livery base. 2. 'Annualized basis' means the product of the number of livery drivers affiliated with a dispatching livery base and the number of months each such driver is affiliated with the livery base, divided by twelve. 3. 'Covered services' means all dispatches from a livery base regardless of where the pick-up or discharge occurs. 4. 'Fund' means the independent livery driver benefit fund as established in this article. 5. 'Independent livery base' has the same meaning as set forth in section eighteen-c of the workers' compensation law. 6. 'Livery' means a for-hire vehicle licensed by a local taxi and limousine commission, carrying no more than five passengers or such other limited number as set by a local taxi and limousine commission, which charges for service on the basis of flat rate, time, mileage or zones, and which is dispatched by a livery dispatch facility, but shall not include a vehicle owned or driven by a black car operator, as defined in article six-F of this chapter. 7. time, mileage or zones, and which is dispatched by a livery dispatch facility, but shall not include a vehicle owned or driven by a black car operator, as defined in article six-F of this chapter. 7. 'Livery driver' means an individual that drives a livery, is dispatched by a livery base, receives compensation for such driving, and is licensed to do so by a local taxi and limousine commission. 8. 'Livery base' means a central facility that manages, organizes or dispatches liveries, and is licensed to do so by a local taxi and limousine commission. 9. 'Livery registrant' means a person in whose name a livery is licensed by a local taxi and limousine commission. 10. 'Local taxi and limousine commission' means a unit of local government in New York city, Nassau county or Westchester county authorized to license and regulate liveries.
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