[Added 3-28-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-1]
As used in this article, the following words shall have the meanings given herein:
AUTOBUS
Includes any automobile or motor bus, commonly called jitneys, with a carrying capacity of not more 13 passengers, operated under borough consent upon a route established wholly within the limits of the borough, which route does not, in whole or in part, parallel upon the same street the line of any street railway or traction railway or any other autobus route.
PERSON
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever.
STREET
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other public place.
A. 
No autobus, as defined herein, shall be operated, wholly or partly, along any street in the borough until the owner or owners thereof shall obtain the consent of the governing body.
B. 
No such consent shall become effective and no such operation shall be permitted until the owner of such autobus shall have filed with the chief fiscal officer of the borough an insurance policy of a company duly licensed to transact business under the insurance laws of this state in the sum of $10,000 against loss from the liability imposed by law upon the autobus owner for damages on account of bodily injury or death suffered by any one person and in the sum of $100,000 on account of bodily injury or death suffered by more than one person and in the sum of $5,000 against loss on account of property damage suffered by any person or persons, as a result of an accident occurring by reason of the ownership, maintenance or use of such autobus upon the public streets of such borough, and such consent shall continue effective and such operation be permitted only so long as such insurance to the full and collectible amount of $10,000 for one person and $100,000 for more than one person for bodily injuries or death and $5,000 for property damage shall remain in force, during the entire term of the policy. Such 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 autobus or any fault in respect thereto and shall be for the benefit of any person suffering loss, damage or injury as aforesaid.
C. 
A power of attorney shall be executed and delivered to the chief fiscal officer concurrently with the filing of a policy hereinbefore referred to, wherein and whereby said owner shall nominate, constitute and appoint such chief fiscal officer his true and lawful attorney for the purpose of acknowledging service of any process out of a court of competent jurisdiction to be served against the insured by virtue of the indemnity granted under the insurance policy filed.
D. 
Any such consent may be revoked by the governing body after notice and hearing whenever it shall appear that the person to whom such consent was granted has failed to furnish and keep in force the insurance and the power of attorney herein required or to comply with any terms or conditions imposed by the board or body granting such consent or any law of this state.
A. 
Every person, as herein defined, owning and operating an autobus, as herein defined, shall, on or before the 10th day of each calendar month, file with the Borough Treasurer a statement, verified by oath, showing the gross receipts from the business of said autobus or busses during the preceding calendar month and shall at the same time pay to the Borough Treasurer 5% of such gross receipts as a monthly franchise tax for revenue for the use of the borough, provided that if the route over which such autobus is operated shall extend beyond the limits of the borough, then such person shall include in such statement the length of the route over which said autobus is operated both within and without the borough and shall pay, as said franchise tax to the Borough, 5% of such proportion of the gross receipts as the length of the route in the borough bears to the whole length of such route.
B. 
The sum accruing to the borough under this section when paid shall be in lieu of all other franchise taxes and municipal license fees.
C. 
Any person owning and operating an autobus or busses neglecting or refusing to make such monthly statement or payment at the time and as required herein shall thereby forfeit and pay for such neglect or refusal $100 for each offense, to be recoverable by action in the name of the borough in any court of competent jurisdiction and, when collected, paid into the borough treasury.