§ 12.62.010. Definitions.

The following words and phrases shall have the meanings set forth below, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

"Business District", as defined in Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-101(9), means the territory contiguous to and including a highway when, within any six hundred feet along the highway, there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including, but not limited to, hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings that occupy at least three hundred feet of frontage on one side or three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the highway.

"Lock-to Shared Urban Mobility Device (SUMD) system" means a system which provides SUMDs for short-term rentals for point-to-point trips which must be locked or secured to a stationary object. A SUMD that is not lock-to would be dockless.

"Operator" means a corporation, firm, joint venture, limited liability company, partnership, person, or other organized entity that operates a SUMD system, whether for profit or not for profit.

"Powered" means electric or motorized; in the case of a UMD, it also means any other technology that allows the UMD to be self-propelled.

"Shared Urban Mobility Device (SUMD) system" or "system" means a system which provides urban mobility devices for short-term rentals for point-to-point trips. Such a system can be a Lock-to SUMD System or a dockless SUMD system.

"Urban Mobility Device (UMD)" means bicycles, tricycles, scooters, hoverboards, skateboards, pedal cars, and other similar devices, whether they are powered or nonpowered. A UMD does not include devices used as assistive mobility devices by persons with disabilities.

"User" means a person who rents and uses a UMD from an operator.

(Amdt. A to Ord. BL2018-1202 § 1, 2018; Ord. BL2018-1202 § 1, 2018)