As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
DRIVER
Any person who drives or operates a taxi which originates
fare-generating services within the Township.
LIMOUSINE
As defined in P.L. 1999, c. 356, approved January 14, 2000,
but such may be subject to the mercantile rules and ordinances of
this Township. A limousine may not advertise, solicit or otherwise
seek to obtain business and fare-paying customers in the manner of
a taxi and, to the extent that a limousine may do so in a manner not
fitting the definition and meaning of P.L. 1999, c. 356 referenced
above, it shall be considered a taxi subject to the regulation of
this chapter. Limousines are intended to be charter-type or contract-type
service as defined and within the meaning of P.L. 1999, c. 356 referenced
above. Therefore, whenever a limousine owner or operator operates
in a manner of a taxi within the Township of Long Beach, that owner
or operator must comply with the terms and conditions of this chapter.
OPERATION OF TAXI
Transporting in such taxi one or more persons for hire along
any of the streets in the Township or accepting a passenger to be
transported for hire from a point of departure within the Township
to a destination within or outside the Township shall be considered
operation of a taxicab within the Township. The driving or operation
of a taxicab as above described by one other than the owner shall
be operation by the owner thereof, as well as by the person actually
driving the taxi. The transportation of any person other than the
owner or driver in any motor vehicle bearing the sign therein or thereon
using the words "Taxi," "Taxicab" or "Cab", shall be prima facia evidence
of operation of a taxi.
OWNER
Any person in whose name title to any taxi is registered
within the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles or who appears in
the Division's records to be a conditional vendee or licensee or lessee
or has any other proprietary interest thereof.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, limited partnership, association,
corporation or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers.
STREET
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other
public place, whether or not the same is improved.
TAXI
Any autocab, automobile, motor car or motor vehicle, commonly
called "taxi," duly licensed by the Township of Long Beach 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 Township of Long Beach and
which accepts passengers for transportation from undesignated points
or places within or without the Township; provided, however, that
nothing herein contained shall include or make this chapter applicable
to limousines so long as they are operated within the Township exclusively
as limousines (within the definition and meaning of P.L. 1999, c.
356, approved January 14, 2000) or other public conveyances, including autobuses, buses,
public liveries or jitneys, which are public conveyances that are
operated on designated routes and are by law exclusively subject to
state and/or federal regulation.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Long Beach, Ocean County, New Jersey, the
governing body of which is the Township Board of Commissioners.
No taxi owner's or driver's license shall be
issued until the applicant therefor shall have executed and delivered
a signed and dated agreement which holds the Township harmless, and
by which the applicant agrees to completely indemnify the Township
for all costs and expenses incurred for any claim arising out of the
applicant's ownership or operation of a taxi in the Township.
No owner or operator of any autocab, while waiting
for employment at any place other than the garage or residence of
the owner thereof, shall refuse conveyance to any person without just
cause.
No operator shall permit any person or persons
other than the person or persons first employing the autocab to occupy
or ride in said autocab unless the person or persons first employing
the autocab shall consent to the acceptance to such additional passenger
or passengers.
Each passenger shall be entitled to have carried
and conveyed upon any licensed autocab, without charge, his ordinary
traveling baggage, not exceeding, in any case, 25 pounds of baggage.
Every owner's or operator's license granted hereunder may be suspended or revoked by the Township Board of Commissioners, after notice and hearing, for the violation of any provision of this article or the statutory provisions incorporated in §
184-2 hereof or for other good and sufficient cause. During said suspension and after revocation, the license shall be surrendered to the Township forthwith, along with the badge supplied by the Township pursuant to §
184-10 hereof.