[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Palmyra 11-14-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-18. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any automobile or motor car used in the business
of carrying passengers for hire to provide prearranged passenger transportation
at a premium fare on a dedicated, nonscheduled, charter basis that
is conducted on a regular route and with a seating capacity in no
event of more than 14 passengers, not including the driver, provided
that such a vehicle shall not have a seating capacity in excess of
four passengers, not including the driver, beyond the maximum passenger
seating capacity of the vehicle, not including the driver, at the
time of manufacture. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed
to include taxicabs, hotel buses, buses employed solely in transporting
school children or teachers, vehicles owned and operated directly
or indirectly by businesses engaged in the practice of mortuary science
when those vehicles are used exclusively for providing transportation
related to the provision of funeral services, autobuses which are
subject to the jurisdiction of the Department or transportation or
interstate autobuses required by federal or state law or regulations
of the Department of Transportation to carry insurance against loss
from liability imposed by law on account of bodily injury or death.
A license to drive a limousine in the Borough of Palmyra.
A license to provide limousine service originating within
the Borough of Palmyra.
Includes the business of carrying passengers for hire by
limousines.
In reference to a municipality, the location of the main
place of business of the limousine service in the municipality where
limousine service is contacted, where limousines are dispatched or
where limousine dispatches report for duty.
Any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway, or other public
place.
Except as provided in N.J.S.A. 48:16-22.4, no
limousine shall be operated on any street in the Borough of Palmyra
until the owner of the limousine shall have filed with the Clerk of
the municipality in which the owner has its principal place of business,
an insurance policy of a company duly licensed to transact business
under the insurance laws of this state in the sum $1,500,000 against
loss by reason of the liability imposed by the law upon every limousine
owner for damages on account of bodily injury or death suffered by
any person as a result of an accident occurring by reason of the ownership,
maintenance, or use of the limousine upon any public street. Such
operation shall be permitted only so long as all of the requirements
of N.J.S.A. 48:16-13 et seq. are satisfied.
If the principal place of business of the limousine
service is located in the Borough of Palmyra, the Municipal Clerk
or her designee, upon confirmation that the applicant has field the
required insurance policy and a payment of a fee of $50, shall issue
in duplicate a license to operate said limousine. The license shall
recite the name of the insurance company, the number and date of expiration
of the policy, a description of every limousine insured thereunder
and the resignation number of the same.
A.
The original license shall be retained within the
limousine and shall be available for inspection by any police officer
in the state.
B.
In lieu of the recital of insurance information required
on the license pursuant to this section, the owner of the limousine
may affix to the original license retained within the limousine a
notarized letter from an insurance company containing the same insurance
information required in the recital. This shall constitute proof of
insurance coverage and which shall also be available for inspection
by any police officer in the state.
Where a limousine service operates in more than
one municipality, the insurance policy required by N.J.S.A. 48:16-14
shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality in which the owner
has its principal place of business.
For any violation of this chapter, the owner
or operator of any limousine shall pay a fine not to exceed $500 for
each offense.
