Uber returns to the road in Oak Harbor

After an absence of more than three months, Uber is back in Oak Harbor.

The ride-share company stopped operating in the city last September because of new city regulations, though rival Lyft continued operations unimpeded.

Earlier this year, City Administrator Blaine Oborn announced that Uber completed the business license requirements and can return to operating in the city. He said the city’s application was slightly revised after discussion with Uber but that it still complies with the city’s ordinance regulating such services.

At the time, Oborn explained that a state law allowed municipalities to regulate transportation network carriers, which are companies that use an online-enabled platform to connect passengers with drivers using their personal, non-commercial vehicles.

The city adopted new rules in which the companies have to pay a $600 fee and are obligated to do some background checking on drivers, Oborn said.