75-342.

Certain services; specific authorization from commission or license required; conditions; exception.

(1) No transportation network company or participating driver shall provide transportation for any person under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services or any contractors of the Department of Health and Human Services without specific authorization from the commission. The commission shall grant specific authorization to a requesting transportation network company or participating driver, unless a protestant shows that (a) existing carriers are currently meeting, or will meet, the proposed need for the proposed service and (b) even if the applicant's service will be responsive to a public demand or need, the applicant would not be able to serve such need in a specified manner without endangering or impairing the operations of existing carriers contrary to the public interest.

(2)(a) No transportation network company or participating driver shall engage in intrastate medicaid nonemergency medical transportation services unless such transportation network company or participating driver holds a license to engage in such services under subsection (4) of section 75-311.

(b) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to a transportation network company or participating driver that holds a license under subsection (4) of section 75-311.