§47-1-174.

§47-1-174.
   
   Taxicab shall mean and include any motor vehicle for hire, designed to
   carry ten persons or less, operated upon any street or highway, or on
   call or demand, accepting or soliciting passengers indiscriminately
   for transportation for hire between such points along streets or
   highways as may be directed by the passenger or passengers so being
   transported. This classification shall not include:
   
   1. Motor vehicles of ten-passenger capacity or less operated by the
   owner where the cost of operation is shared by fellow workmen between
   their homes and the place of regular daily employment, when not
   operated for more than two trips per day;
   
   2. Motor vehicles operated by the owner where the cost of operation is
   shared by the passengers on a "share the expense plan"; or
   
   3. Motor vehicles transporting students from the public school system
   when said motor vehicle is so transporting under contract with public,
   private, or parochial school board or governing body.