For the purposes of this chapter, the following
terms shall be defined as follows:
APPLICANT
Any individual, partnership or corporation that owns a limousine
service.
LIMOUSINE
Includes 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. Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed
to include taxicabs, hotel buses, buses employed solely in transporting
schoolchildren or teachers, vehicles owned and operated directly or
indirectly by businesses engaged in the practice of mortuary science
when those vehicles are used exclusively for providing transportation
related to the provision of funeral services, autobuses which are
subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation or
interstate autobuses required by federal or state law or regulations
of the Department of Transportation to carry insurance against loss
from liability imposed by law on account of bodily injury or death.
STREET
Any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other public
place.
An owner of a limousine service having his or
her principal place of business in the City of Vineland must obtain
a license for said service from the Municipal Clerk of the City of
Vineland as hereinafter provided.
Applications for licenses shall be made in writing,
upon forms provided by the City of Vineland, signed by the applicant
before a notary public or another person duly authorized to administer
oaths, and filed with the Municipal Clerk. Said applications shall
contain or be accompanied with the following:
A. The name, age and residence of applicant.
(1) If a partnership, the names, ages and residences of
all partners, along with the business address of the partnership.
(2) If a corporation, the names, ages and residences of
its president, secretary and treasurer, along with its certificate
of incorporation and a certified copy of the corporate resolution
authorizing the application. Applications made by corporations shall
be signed in its name by the president and attested by the secretary.
B. Copy of an insurance policy, pursuant to N.J.S.A.
48:16-14, for $1,500,000 against loss by reason of the liability imposed
by law upon every limousine 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 limousine
upon any public street.
C. Name of insurance company, the number and the date
of expiration of the policy, a description of every limousine insured
thereunder and the registration number of the same.
D. A certificate of compliance attesting that the applicant
has complied with all state statutes governing limousine services.
E. A nonrefundable limousine license fee of $50 per year.
A new license issued under this chapter shall
be valid from its date of issuance until December 31 of the same year.
Thereafter, a renewal license shall be valid for one year from January
1 until December 31.