(a) The traffic authority shall have power to establish bus stops with the approval of the Department of Transportation. The traffic authority shall also have the power to establish stands for other motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers for hire and designate the same by appropriate signs and markings.

(b) No person other than an operator of a motor vehicle used for the transportation of passengers for hire shall park any vehicle in any officially designated public service motor vehicle stand, and no operator of any such motor vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any highway in any business district at any place other than a public service motor vehicle stand; but this provision shall not prevent the operator of any such motor vehicle from temporarily stopping such vehicle in accordance with parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.

(1949 Rev., S. 2523; 1949, S. 1407d; P.A. 75-486, S. 45, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 36, 348; P.A. 84-20, S. 3; P.A. 90-263, S. 54, 74.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 gave division of public utility control department status and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 84-20 amended Subsec. (a) to transfer power to approve establishment of bus stops from public utility control department to transportation department; P.A. 90-263 substituted “motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers for hire” for “public service motor vehicle”.