A transportation network company shall disclose all of the following information to a transportation network company driver in writing before the driver may accept a request from a rider for a prearranged ride on the company’s digital network:
 1. The types, amounts, terms, and limits of automobile insurance provided by the company to the driver while the driver uses a personal vehicle in connection with the use of the company’s digital network.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 321N.5

  • company: means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that operates in this state and uses a digital network to connect transportation network company riders to transportation network company drivers who provide prearranged rides. See Iowa Code 321N.1
  • Digital network: means an online-enabled application, internet site, or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables transportation network company riders to prearrange rides with transportation network company drivers. See Iowa Code 321N.1
  • driver: means an individual who does all of the following:
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Prearranged ride: means the provision of transportation by a transportation network company driver to a transportation network company rider. See Iowa Code 321N.1
  • rider: means an individual or group of individuals who uses a transportation network company's digital network to connect with a transportation network company driver to request a prearranged ride for the individual or group of individuals, and who receives the prearranged ride in the driver's personal vehicle between locations chosen by the individual or group of individuals. See Iowa Code 321N.1
  • Vehicle: means any vehicle as defined in chapter 321. See Iowa Code 321H.2
 2. That the driver’s own automobile insurance policy, depending on the policy’s terms, may not provide any coverage while the driver is logged on to the company’s digital network and is available to receive requests for a prearranged ride, or while the driver is engaged in a prearranged ride.