What is “ride sharing for persons with special transportation needs”?
“Ride sharing for persons with special transportation needs” means an arrangement, whereby a group of persons with special transportation needs, and their attendants, is transported by a public social service agency or a private, nonprofit transportation provider, in a passenger motor vehicle as defined by the department of licensing to include small buses, cutaways, and modified vans not more than twenty-eight feet long. The driver need not be a person with special transportation needs. (i) What is a “private, nonprofit transportation provider”? A “private, nonprofit transportation provider” is any private, nonprofit corporation providing transportation services for compensation solely to persons with special transportation needs. (ii) What is “persons with special transportation needs”? “Persons with special transportation needs” are those persons, including their personal attendants, who because of physical or mental disability, income status, or age, are unable to transport themsel
