[HISTORY: Adopted by the Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Nantucket 5-17-1988 by Art. 109, approved 9-28-1988.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: The home rule petition was
approved by the General Legislature 7-24-1989, Ch. 266 of the Acts
of 1989.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A motor vehicle propelled by a motor powered by electrical
energy from rechargeable batteries or other source onboard the vehicle.
[Added 4-4-2011 ATM by Art. 77, approved 7-26-2011]
The same meaning as defined in the General Laws.
A person, business or corporation engaged in the Town of
Nantucket in the business of renting, leasing or keeping for rent
any motor vehicle.
[Amended 4-15-2003 ATM by Art. 65, approved 6-30-2003]
To grant or make available the use, possession or enjoyment
of a motor vehicle for an agreed period of time in exchange for an
agreed payment, whether or not such transaction is a separate agreement
in itself or is part of a broader agreement between the parties thereto.
[Amended 4-15-2003 ATM by Art. 65, approved 6-30-2003]
[Amended 6-25-2020 ATM by Art. 70, approved 10-27-2020]
No person, business or corporation shall engage
in the business of renting, leasing or keeping for rent or lease any
motor vehicle without first being licensed annually by the Select
Board to do so. It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be rented,
leased or made available for rental or lease in the Town of Nantucket
without such motor vehicle displaying a rental sticker affixed to
the rear bumper pursuant to this chapter.
[Amended 4-14-1997 ATM by Art. 54[1]; 4-14-1997 ATM by Art. 55, approved 8-5-1997; 4-13-1998 ATM by Art. 54, approved 7-31-1998; 4-10-2000 ATM by Art. 53, approved
8-2-2000; 4-15-2003 ATM by Art. 65, approved 6-30-2003; 4-12-2004 ATM by Art.
53, approved 9-3-2004 ]
A.
Each application for a rental agency license shall
be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee as established by
the Select Board. The application shall include a listing of the registration
number of each motor vehicle available or to be available for lease
for the year in which the license is to be valid. Licenses for rental
agencies shall be issued on a calendar-year basis and shall be issued
after payment of an annual fee of $100 per rental motor vehicle; provided,
however, that no payment of such fee shall be required for a motor
vehicle upon which an excise has been assessed, levied and paid to
the Town of Nantucket under the provisions of Chapter 60A of the General
Laws. The Select Board shall issue a license to each approved applicant,
which shall be posted in a conspicuous manner at the place of business.
B.
The total number of motor vehicles available for lease
on the island of Nantucket shall not exceed 700. The Select Board
shall issue each rental agency one rental vehicle medallion (RVM)
for each motor vehicle listed in its 1996 application and which received
a rental sticker. Each RVM constitutes the nonexpiring right to lease
one motor vehicle. A rental agency shall possess one RVM for each
motor vehicle listed in its application beginning in 1998.
C.
Upon issuance of the license, the Select Board shall
provide one annual rental sticker for each motor vehicle listed in
the approved application, which shall be affixed by the licensee to
the left rear bumper of each motor vehicle so listed. Each sticker
shall recite the registration number of the vehicle to which it is
affixed.
D.
RVM's are transferable, with or without consideration,
to any other rental agency or entity. Such transfers may be made whenever,
and to the extent that, the number of RVM's held by the transferor
exceeds the number of unexpired annual stickers issued to the transferor.
A transfer shall be effective upon written notice of the transfer,
by the transferor, to the Select Board. Should a rental agency surrender
its RVM rights to the Select Board, or should the Select Board possess
surplus RVM's from any other cause, these RVM's may be retained by
the Town and/or may be re-issued at a fee to be established from time
to time by the Select Board. Any RVM's not obtained by any rental
agency by the end of any calendar year shall be considered surplus
as of January first and may be retired by the Town at that time.
[1]
Editor's Note: In accordance with MGL c. 40,
§ 32, these changes became effective by reason of failure
of the Attorney General to act.
[Added 4-10-1995 ATM by Art. 60, approved
5-22-1995]
No license pursuant to this chapter shall be
issued unless or until the applicant shall have paid to the Town all
lease or rental transaction surcharges established by MGL c. 90, § 20E(i).
The license shall not be transferable between
businesses, persons or corporations, nor between location of business
premises; individual motor vehicle stickers shall not be transferable
between different motor vehicles.
[Amended 4-14-2005 ATM by Art. 56, approved 8-5-2005]
Violations of this chapter shall be punishable
by a fine of $300, each day being considered a separate offense.
[Added 4-10-2000 ATM by Art. 52, approved
8-2-2000; amended 4-15-2003 ATM by Art. 65, approved 6-30-2003]
