[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Township of North Brunswick 6-26-2000 by Ord. No. 00-12. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as "License to Operate a Limousine Ordinance of the Township of North
Brunswick."
It is not intended by this chapter to repeal,
abrogate, annul or in any way impair or interfere with existing provisions
of other ordinances, including the General Licensing Ordinance of
the Township of North Brunswick, except those specifically repealed.
Where this chapter imposes a licensing fee upon a business that is
required to obtain a license and pay a fee under the provision of
any other ordinance, the provisions of both ordinances shall apply.
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Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural
number include the singular number and words in the singular number
include the plural number. The word "shall" means always mandatory
and not merely directory.
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LIMOUSINE
LIMOUSINE SERVICE
PERSON
STREET
TOWNSHIP
Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the
following terms, phrases, words and their derivation shall have the
meaning given herein:
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 not 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. Not included in this definition are taxicabs,
hotel buses or buses employed solely in transporting school children
or teachers, or autobuses which are subject to the jurisdiction of
the Department of Transportation, or interstate auto buses required
by federal or state law or regulations of the Department of Transportation
carrying insurance against loss from liability imposed by law on account
of bodily injury or death.
The business of carrying passengers for hire by limousines.
Any individual copartnership, association, corporation or
joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
Any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other public
place.
The Township of North Brunswick.
No person shall operate a limousine service
in any street in this township without a license to operate issued
by a municipality in which the owner has his principal place of business
and without otherwise complying with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 48:16-13
et seq.
[Amended 3-1-2010 by Ord. No. 10-02]
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All limousine
services that have their principal offices located within the Township
of North Brunswick shall apply to the Township Clerk’s office
for a license to operate in the Township of North Brunswick. Each
limousine service shall, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 48:16-17: 1) file a
copy of the required insurance policy with the Township Clerk; 2)
pay a fee of $50 for the limousine business; and 3) pay an additional
$10 for each limousine covered under the required insurance policy;
whereupon the Township Clerk shall issue, in duplicate, a license
to operate to the owner of the limousine service, showing that the
owner of the limousine service has complied with the terms and conditions
of N.J.S.A. 48:16-17.
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The license
issued by the Township Clerk shall recite the name of the insurance
company, the number and date of the expiration of the policy, a description
of every limousine insured under said policy, and the registration
number of each covered limousine.
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The licensure
provisions contained in this section are also set forth in § 212-16,
entitled, "License fees; licensed uses," of the Township Code.
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Notwithstanding
any provisions contained in this chapter to the contrary, no person
lawfully engaged in limousine service on an intrastate basis between
or among political subdivisions within the State of New Jersey need
obtain a license pursuant to this chapter unless the owner maintains
his or her principal place of business within the Township.
