Tampa, Florida -- There are charges a Hillsborough County agency is violating a state statute in order to accommodate the Official Limousine Company of the Super Bowl.

When high rollers -- and there are plenty of them in town this week -- come to the Super Bowl, they like to travel in style and for many that means being shuffled around town in a limousine.

The NFL has named Cary International as the official limousine company of the Super Bowl. Avis Rent a Car owns 45 percent of Cary. That's where Clearwater based Limo South comes in.

Michele O'Hara of Limo South says the service is doing everything other companies in the area are doing. Limo South is bringing in extra equipment to take care of its clients.

O'Hara says her company is working with the Washington-based Cary Limousines to provide vehicles for the Super Bowl. O'Hara says her company is doing exactly what the Hillsborough Public Transportation Agency, or PTC, told them the must do. The PTC regulates limos in Hillsborough County.

According to O'Hara, her company is a Cary International franchise. Cary will operate under Limo South's PTC-issued permit. O'Hara says they are following all the rules and regulations and are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.

But Moshe Leib, the owner of TB Limo, says the PTC is breaking its own rules by allowing Cary to operate under Limo South's license. Other local limousine companies agree with Leib.

Those companies say there is nothing in the PTC rules that allow an out of state company to use a Florida company's license to operate. State law says the commission may not exercise any power that has not been expressly granted by the statute. Leib says the law is a limo company must have a license to operate.

The public transportation commission says it is following its procedures for licensing limos by inspecting all the vehicles that Cary is bringing in for the Super Bowl. The PTC is requiring all drivers have a Florida drivers license.

But the agency can't explain how Limo South (which is registered with the state and even the PTC as Limo South, not Cary) is following the rules. Clearly it is a separate company from Cary.

Leib says the PTC is bending the rules because they are being pressured by the NFL and the Super Bowl host committee.

While the host committee might want to plead ignorance about the PTC rules, Leib says that rings hollow. That's because the committee hired Greg Cox to act as the transportation liaison for the Super Bowl. Cox resigned in disgrace as the executive director of the PTC is 2007. If he didn't resign, he would have been fired.

Meantime Limo South says it is merely trying to provide limo service for the Super Bowl and it is following all the PTC told it to.