[Amended 4-28-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-03]
As used in this article, the following words shall have the
meanings given herein:
Includes any automobile or motor car with a carrying capacity
of not more than nine passengers, not including the driver, used in
the business of carrying passengers for hire, which is held out, announced
or advertised to operate or run or which is operated or run over any
of the streets or public highways of this state and which is hired
by charter or for a particular contract or by the day or hour or other
fixed period or to transport passengers to a specified place or places
or which charges a fare or price agreed upon in advance between the
operator and the passenger. Nothing contained in this article shall
be construed to include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses employed solely
in transporting school children or teachers or autobuses, which are
subject to the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities or interstate
autobuses required by federal or state law or rules of the Board of
Public Utilities to carry insurance against loss from liability imposed
by law on account of bodily injury or death.
Includes the business of carrying passengers for hire by
autocabs.
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation
or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway, or other
public place.
A.Â
No autocab, limousine or livery service having its principal place
of business in this borough shall be operated, wholly or partly, along
any street in the Borough until the owner of the autocab, limousine
or livery service shall have filed with the Borough Clerk an insurance
policy of a company duly licensed to transact business under the insurance
laws of this state in the sum of $1,500,000 against loss by reason
of the liability imposed by law upon every autocab, limousine or livery
service owner for damages on account of bodily injury or death suffered
by any person as the result of an accident occurring by reason of
the ownership, maintenance or use of the autocab, limousine or livery
service upon any public street.
B.Â
Such operation shall be permitted only so long as the insurance policy
shall remain in force to the full and collectible amount of $1,500,000.
C.Â
The insurance policy shall provide for the payment of any final judgment
recovered by any person on account of the ownership, maintenance and
use of such autocab, limousine or livery service or any fault in respect
thereto and shall be for the benefit of every person suffering loss,
damage or injury as aforesaid.
The Borough Clerk, upon the filing of the required insurance
policy and the payment of a fee of $50, shall issue in duplicate a
license to operate showing that the owner of the limousine has complied
with the terms and provisions of this article. 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 registration number of the same. The duplicate license shall
be filed with the Division of Motor Vehicles before any such car is
registered as a limousine. The original license shall be retained
within the limousine and shall be available for inspection by any
police officer in the state. In lieu of the recital of insurance information
required on the license pursuant to this section, the owner of a 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, which shall constitute proof
of insurance coverage and which shall also be available for inspection
by any police officer in the state.
No person shall operate a limousine service having its principal
place of business in the Borough in any street in the Borough until
the owner thereof shall have obtained a limousine license, as provided
for in this article from the Borough Clerk.
