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Bristol Bay Borough reviews taxi-code rewrite, debates inspections and insurance minimums
Summary
At a borough workshop, assembly members debated inspection standards, a proposed self-certification checklist and raising the minimum liability insurance for taxicab operators; staff were asked to clarify application deadlines and return with amended language.
Bristol Bay Borough assembly members spent the bulk of a workshop reviewing a proposed amendment to borough code chapter 5.4 that governs taxicabs and other for-hire vehicles, focusing on who inspects vehicles, what inspection standards to require and how to set insurance minimums.
The discussion opened after staff presented sample inspection forms from other jurisdictions. Speaker 3 said the state of Alaska has no single taxi inspection standard and identified inspection templates from Anchorage and Fairbanks International Airport, and a more detailed, measurement-based form used in Moscow, Idaho. "They required measurements; they required tread depths," Speaker 3 said, noting that a measurement checklist is one option the borough could adopt.
Assembly members raised practical concerns about requiring ASE or similarly certified…
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