- (a) The authority to regulate transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers is reserved to the state, and, except as specifically provided by statute, a municipality may not enact or enforce an ordinance regulating transportation network companies or transportation network company drivers.
(b) The prohibition on regulation under (a) of this section does not include
- (1) imposition of a municipal sales tax on a transportation network company driver that taxes a trip originating in the municipality in the same manner that other services are taxed in the municipality; in imposing a sales tax as permitted by this paragraph, a municipality may require the transportation network company to collect and pay the municipal sales tax on behalf of transportation network company drivers;
- (2) a municipal traffic ordinance.
- (c) Notwithstanding AS 28.01.010 or (a) of this section, a municipality may by ordinance ratified by the voters in a regular municipal election prohibit transportation network companies from conducting activities under AS 28.23 within the municipality.
- (d) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
(e) In this section,
- (1) “transportation network company” has the meaning given in AS 28.23.180;
- (2) “transportation network company driver” has the meaning given in AS 28.23.180.