§ 100-53 — Insurance Required

100-53. Insurance Required.

1. INSURANCE. No person may operate, or shall be issued a permit to operate, a public passenger vehicle unless that person is in conformance with the financial responsibility requirements under ch. 344, Wis. Stats. 2. DRIVER TO BE COVERED. All surety bonds or policies of insurance in compliance with this section shall contain an omnibus coverage clause by which all provisions of the surety bond or insurance policy shall inure to the benefit of and cover all drivers of the named assured's public passenger vehicle regardless of the type of operation and regardless of any arrangement for the operation of the vehicle existing between the owner and the driver, whether such arrangement is that of principal agent, employer-employee, bailor-bailee, renter-rentee, or any other type of relationship. 3. HUMAN SERVICE DRIVER. All surety bonds, deposits or insurance for persons transporting disabled or elderly persons shall cover such persons transported from the time the driver or other employee of the permittee assumes control over the persons. Such liability shall continue until the driver or other employee of the permittee or owner relinquishes control over the disabled or elderly person. 4. NO OBLIGATION ON PART OF CITY. The city in requiring surety bonds, insurance policies or escrow deposits makes no representations or commitments whatsoever as to the sufficiency or adequacy with respect thereto and assumes no obligations to the public by virtue of having required the forgoing to be submitted and filed with the city.