As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
DRIVER
Any person who drives a taxicab within the Borough.
OPERATION OF A TAXICAB
Consists of transporting in such taxicab one or more persons
for hire. Accepting a passenger to be transported for hire from a
point of departure within the Borough to a destination within or without
the Borough shall be deemed to be "operation of a taxicab" within
the Borough. The operation of a taxicab in any of the above-described
manners by one other than the owner shall be deemed operation by the
owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving the same.
The transportation of any person other than the owner or driver in
any motor vehicle bearing a sign therein or thereon using the words
"taxi," "taxicab," "cab" or "hack" shall be prima facie evidence of
operation.
OWNER
Any person in whose name title to any taxicab is registered
with the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles or who appears in such
records to be the conditional vendee or lessee thereof.
TAXICAB
Includes any automobile or motor car, commonly called "taxi,"
engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, which is
held out, announced or advertised to operate or run or which is operated
to run over any of the streets within the Borough and which accepts
passengers for transportation from points or places to points or places
within or without the Borough.
No person shall operate a taxicab within the Borough unless
both the taxicab and its driver are licensed pursuant to this chapter.
No taxicab owner's license shall be issued for a vehicle
until it has been inspected and approved, in writing, by the Chief
of Police, until the required license fee is paid to the Clerk and
until there has been filed with the Clerk a policy of insurance, with
the premium prepaid, from an insurance company licensed to transact
business in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey in
the sum of $100,000 against loss from liability imposed by law upon
the owner for damages on account of bodily injury or death suffered
by one person, in the sum of $300,000 against loss from liability
imposed by law upon the owner for damages on account of bodily injury
or death suffered by more than one person as a result of an accident
occurring by reason of the ownership, maintenance or use of the vehicle
so licensed within the Borough and the sum of $20,000 against loss
from liability imposed by law upon the owner for property damages
suffered by any person as a result of an accident occurring by reason
of ownership, maintenance or use of the licensed vehicle. The license
shall be effective and operative only so long as the insurance policy
remains in full force and effect and the full amounts payable thereunder
remain collectible. Such insurance policy shall provide for the payment
of any final judgment received by a person on account of the ownership,
maintenance and use of the vehicle or any fault in respect thereto
and shall be for the benefit of any person suffering loss, damage
or injury as aforesaid and shall recite on its face that it is issued
in pursuance of this chapter. It shall provide further that a power
of attorney shall be executed and delivered to the Borough Treasurer
concurrently with the filing of the policy of insurance, in which
power of attorney the owner shall nominate, constitute and appoint
the Treasurer as his true and lawful attorney for the purpose of acknowledging
service of any process of a court of competent jurisdiction to be
served against the insured by virtue of the indemnity granted under
the insurance.
The Chief of Police shall make an investigation of any application
when directed to do so by the Council and shall submit a report evidencing
his findings to the Council for its approval or disapproval of the
license.
The Clerk shall keep a register of all licenses granted under
the provisions of this chapter, which register shall show the character
of the license, its number, the date of issuance, the name of the
person licensed and any other information pertaining thereto. He shall
keep all applications, and upon those which may be granted he shall
record the number of the license issued.
[Amended 12-18-1975 by Ord. No. 75-18; 8-18-1988 by Ord. No. 88-4]
A. Taxicab owner's license. An application for a taxicab owner's
license shall be accompanied by a fee of $100 for each taxicab or
vehicle to be licensed. When an application for a taxicab owner's
license is made after January 1 in any year, the fee shall be 1/2
this amount.
B. Taxicab driver's license. The fee for a taxicab driver's
license shall be $25 per year.
[Amended 12-18-1975 by Ord. No. 75-18; 8-18-1988 by Ord. No. 88-4]
All licenses shall expire on July 1 succeeding the date of issuance.
[Amended 12-18-1975 by Ord. No. 75-18; 8-18-1988 by Ord. No. 88-4]
A. A taxicab owner's license may be transferred to another vehicle
owner upon the new owner being qualified in all respects as if an
original owner, upon the payment of a transfer fee of $25 to the Clerk
and upon the approval of the Council.
B. A taxicab driver's license shall not be transferable.
[Added 12-20-1993 by Ord. No. 93-19]
Except as may be provided by N.J.S.A. 48:16-1 et seq., any violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, Article
II, General Penalty, of the Code of the Borough of Wallington.