(a) The authority to regulate transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers is reserved to the state, and, except as specifically provided by statute, a municipality may not enact or enforce an ordinance regulating transportation network companies or transportation network company drivers.
(b) The prohibition on regulation under (a) of this section does not include
(1) imposition of a municipal sales tax on a transportation network company driver that taxes a trip originating in the municipality in the same manner that other services are taxed in the municipality; in imposing a sales tax as permitted by this paragraph, a municipality may require the transportation network company to collect and pay the municipal sales tax on behalf of transportation network company drivers;
(2) a municipal traffic ordinance.
(c) Notwithstanding AS 28.01.010 or (a) of this section, a municipality may by ordinance ratified by the voters in a regular municipal election prohibit transportation network companies from conducting activities under AS 28.23 within the municipality.
(d) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
(e) In this section,
(1) “transportation network company” has the meaning given in AS 28.23.180;
(2) “transportation network company driver” has the meaning given in AS 28.23.180.