A.
No person shall operate any taxicab within the Township unless both
the taxicab and the driver thereof are licensed pursuant to this article
and conform to all the provisions hereof.
B.
Violating this provision shall result in a penalty assigned to the taxicab driver and the taxicab owner as provided in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty. Any sworn law enforcement officer may enforce this section. Upon conviction in Municipal Court, the Township Clerk may refuse to grant a taxicab owner's license for a period up to one year, if an application is made.
There are hereby established two classes of taxicab licenses
to be known as "taxicab driver's license" and "taxicab owner's
license," respectively.
Applicants for a taxicab driver or owner's license must
have had a drug screening conducted within 30 days of their application
and must submit the results of the drug test to the Township Clerk.
This drug test must have been performed by a facility duly licensed
to conduct drug testing by the State of New Jersey, and shall screen
for all illegal substances. Failure to submit drug-testing results,
or to have failed a drug test, will result in the rejection and/or
denial of the application.
All applications for the issuance or renewal of any license
of either class shall be made to the Township Clerk on forms adopted
by and obtained from the Township Clerk, which forms shall be designed
to elicit information respecting the identification, responsibility
and law-abiding habits of the applicant. An applicant, after a background
investigation, can be disqualified if convicted of offenses as per
state statute.
Each applicant for a license of any class shall supply the information
requested on the application in full and verify the correctness thereof
by his oath or affirmation and thereafter file the completed application
with the Township Clerk, together with the full amount of the proper
fee hereafter fixed therefor. The Clerk shall issue or renew or deny
the issuance or renewal of such license within 30 days of the day
application for the same was filed with the Clerk. Failure by the
Clerk to act on the application within the aforesaid thirty-day period
may be deemed by the applicant as a denial of the same.
The Township Clerk shall, at the time a final decision is rendered
on any application, pay the fees received therefor over to the Township
Treasurer.
Any license issued pursuant to the terms of this article shall
expire at 12:00 midnight on the 31st day of March of the year next
following issuance, unless sooner surrendered, suspended or revoked.
A taxicab owner's license shall entitle the taxicab therein
described to be operated in the Township by a driver duly licensed
hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended
or revoked.
A.
Every applicant for a taxicab owner's license shall, together
with his/her application, submit to the Township Clerk a certificate
of insurance, naming the Township of Franklin, care of the Township
Clerk, as certificate holder, by a company duly licensed to transact
business under the insurance laws of the State of New Jersey, and
any amendments thereto, insuring the vehicles for the following minimal
coverage amounts: $250,000 to satisfy all claims for damages, by reason
of bodily injury to, or the death of, any one person, resulting from
an accident, and a sum of not less the $300,000 to satisfy all claims
for damages, by reason of the bodily injuries to, or the death of
all persons, on account of any such accident by reason of the ownership,
operation, maintenance, or use of such taxicab upon any public street;
and conditioned for the payment of a sum of not less than $100,000
to satisfy all claims for damages to property of all persons resulting
from an accident by reason of the ownership, operation, maintenance,
or use of such taxicab upon any public street.
B.
In the event that the applicant's insurance company does not
issue split levels of insurance coverage, a combined single-limit
coverage may be used. This single limit may not amount to less than
$300,000 to satisfy all claims for damages by reason of bodily injury
or death, and/or property damage resulting from the ownership, operation,
maintenance, or use of such taxicab upon any public street.
A taxicab driver's license shall entitle the person named
therein to operate within the Township any taxicab duly licensed hereunder
until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked,
and it shall not be transferable.
Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall file
with his application two photographs, each one inch by one inch in
size, clearly depicting the facial features of the applicant, both
of which photographs shall have been taken within one year prior to
the application for the taxicab license, and which shall thereupon
become the property of the Township and be retained with the application
form. Upon granting of the application, one of such photographs shall
be permanently affixed to the license card in a space provided thereon.
Every applicant for a taxicab driver's license or taxicab
owner's license shall, at the time of filing his initial application,
be fingerprinted by the Police Department. After a license has been
issued, the license holder may thereafter annually elect to be refingerprinted
or to supply to the Police Department an executed New Jersey State
Police, Bureau of Identification Request for Criminal History Record
Information Form, provided the license holder is refingerprinted at
least once in any five-year period. An impression of such fingerprints
shall thereupon be forwarded forthwith by the Police Department to
the Bureau of Identification of the New Jersey State Police for a
report of the applicant's criminal record, which report when
received shall be permanently maintained by the Police Department.
The fee for such fingerprinting and report and Bureau of Identification
Request for Criminal History Record Information Form shall be $5,
payable to the Franklin Township Police Department plus any applicable
fee charged by the State Police.
A.
Each applicant granted a taxicab driver's license shall be issued
a license card in evidence thereof signed by the Township Clerk. Such
license card shall at all times be prominently displayed and adequately
protected in the interior of any taxicab operated by the licensee
so that the face thereof shall be at all times in the full view of
and plainly legible to any passenger seated in the rear seat of such
taxicab. The license card shall at all times be and remain the property
of the Township and shall at any time be surrendered to the Township
Clerk.
The applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall cause
himself to be examined by a reputable doctor licensed to practice
medicine in the state and shall file with his application for the
issuance or renewal of a driver's license a certificate of such
doctor, dated within 30 days of filing, showing that the applicant
is in good general health, free of any communicable disease and has
no past history of epilepsy, coronary thrombosis, cerebral hemorrhage
or other affliction which might cause sudden loss of control of a
taxicab and eyesight corrected to 20/20 with glasses.
A.
No taxicab driver's license card other than that of the licensee
actually operating the cab at the time shall be displayed therein.
A.
Applicants for a taxicab driver's or owner's license must,
at time of application, provide a certified abstract from the New
Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles detailing the applicants'
previous five years of driving history. Applicants who do not have
five years worth of driving experience within New Jersey must provide
a certified abstract from the state in which they were previously
licensed, or an affidavit explaining their lack of five years of driving
experience.
B.
Failure to submit a required abstract shall result in the rejection
and/or denial of the application by the Township Clerk.
