Santa Monica Tour Bus Company Operates without PUC License

City Sights LA, an offshoot of the popular City Sights NY has been offering sightseeing tours to visiting tourists without receiving a Santa Monica PUC License. City officials say that the Santa Monica, CA business license retained by City Sights LA is worthless unless the company acquires the necessary PUC license.

City Sights LA applied for the license back in April and was denied it because of a mechanical deficiency on the busses. Corrective measures were taken and the company reapplied for a PUC license last month, but the California Highway Patrol has not signed on an approval yet.

With the summer vacation season being a good opportunity to start their sightseeing tours in LA, company owners decided to open shop without the required PUC license. They thought they could get around the issue by using busses from a different LA tour bus company while using their name to attract customers.

Santa Monica Daily Press reports that the California Public Utilities Commission has in the past shut down a company who has illegally tried getting around the system in a similar fashion.

"If a company is operating a vehicle that is not correctly identified, the remedy would typically be that the [commission] issues a corrective notice to the company ordering it to comply with the [commission's] vehicle identification requirements," wrote Christopher Chow, public information officer with the commission, in an e-mail.

As of now, no action has been taken by the commission against City Sights.

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