Sec. 18-51. - Definitions.

"Average vehicle ridership (AVR)" means the number of employees reporting to a work site during the peak period divided by the number of vehicles those employees use to arrive at the work site, averaged over the survey week.

"Disabled employee" means an employee with a physical impairment which prevents the employee from traveling to the work site by means other than a vehicle and the employee has been issued a disabled person placard or plate from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

"Employee" means any person conducting work activity for an employer eighty (80) or more hours per month on a permanent, temporary or part-time basis who either reports to work or is assigned to a specified work site on a regular/established schedule. The term excludes field personnel, field construction workers, volunteers, seasonal workers and independent contractors.

"Employer" means any public or private employer with a permanent place of business in the county. "Employer" shall not include contractors and businesses with no permanent place of business in the county.

"Field construction worker" means an employee who reports for work to a temporary field construction site.

"Field personnel" means employees who spend twenty percent (20%) or less of their work-time at the work site and who do not report to the work site during the peak period for dispatch.

"Independent contractor" means an individual who enters into a direct written contract or agreement with an employer to perform certain services and who reports to the work site during the peak period. The period of the contract or agreement is at least ninety (90) days or may be open-ended.

"Volunteer" means an individual who does not receive any wages, salary or other form of financial reimbursement from the employer for services provided.

"Work site" means any property, real or personal, which is being operated or maintained by an employer as part of an identifiable enterprise. Property on contiguous, adjacent or proximate sites separated only by a private or public roadway or other private or public right-of-way, served by a common circulation or access system, and not separated by an impassable barrier to bicycle or pedestrian travel such as a freeway or flood control channel are included as part of the work site.

(Ord. No. 4535 § 2, 1993.)