As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated.
CRIMES INVOLVING MORAL TURPITUDE
Crimes which involve a fundamental offense against society, such
as murder, manslaughter, arson, robbery, burglary, rape, mayhem, assault and
battery, etc., as opposed to statutory crimes, such as traffic violations.
CRUISING
The practice of driving about the streets of the borough with a taxicab
so as to solicit passengers or to bring the presence of the taxicab to the
attention of prospective passengers. A taxicab driving along the streets of
the borough for any reason other than while transporting a passenger, going
to a definite destination by the most direct route in response to a call for
a taxicab by a prospective passenger or returning by the most direct route
to the taxicab's home terminus after discharging a passenger or going to or
from the terminus to the driver's home by the most direct route shall be prima
facie evidence of cruising.
DRIVER
Any person who drives a taxicab within this borough.
LICENSED
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section of this chapter.
LIMOUSINE
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 within the Borough of Wrightstown 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 passenger. The
term "limousine" shall not be construed to mean 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.
OPERATION
Of a taxicab shall consist of transporting in such taxicab one or
more persons for hire along any of the streets of the borough. Accepting a
passenger to be transported for hire within the borough or from a point within
the borough to a point outside of the borough limits or discharging a passenger
transported for hire from a point outside of the borough limits to a point
within the borough limits shall be deemed to be "operation" of a taxicab within
the borough within the meaning thereof. The operation of a taxicab in any
of the above-described manners by one other than the owner shall be deemed
operation by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving the
same. The transportation of any person other than the owner or driver in any
motor vehicle bearing sign therein or thereon using the words "taxi," "taxicab,"
"cab" or "hack" shall be prima facie evidence of operation.
PERSON
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation
or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receiver appointed by any
court whatsoever.
PUBLIC TAXICAB STAND
Includes any section of public street or public place set apart for
the exclusive use of a limited number of taxicabs when such section is distinctly
marked as such by a permanent sign attached to a section of the curb or other
conspicuous place or by clearly visible marks upon the surface of the street
or public place.
STREET
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other public
place.
TAXICAB
A.
Any automobile or motor car, commonly called a "taxi," engaged 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 within
the Borough of Wrightstown, and particularly accepts and discharges such persons
as may offer themselves for transportation from points or places to points
or places within or without said borough.
B.
Includes any automobile, motorcar or limousine, including an airport
limousine, engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, which
is held out, announced or advertised to operate or run, between the Borough
of Wrightstown and the airports outside the borough limits, as part of an
airport limousine service. Any such operation of an airport limousine service
shall be subject to all requirements of this chapter, including, amount other
things, the issuance of a separate certificate or permission as to such service.