[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Runnemede 9-3-1946 by Ord. No. 88 (Ch. 101 of the 1970 Code).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 106.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any automobile or motorcar commonly called a taxi,
engaged 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 the Borough
of Runnemede, and which particularly accepts and discharges such persons
as may offer themselves for transportation from points or places to
points or places within or without the Borough of Runnemede.
Includes any individual or partnership, corporation, association
or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
A section of a public street or place set apart by the Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Runnemede for the exclusive use of a
limited number of autocabs.
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other
public place.
No autocab shall be operated upon the streets
or public places of the Borough of Runnemede unless the owner thereof
shall have caused said autocab to be licensed as herein provided and
shall have complied with the laws of the State of New Jersey relating
to autocabs; nor shall any cab licensed hereunder be driven by any
person unless the driver thereof has been duly issued an automobile
driver's license by the State of New Jersey.
[Amended 3-2-1971 by Ord. No. 249]
No autocab stand shall be licensed until an
application therefor shall have been made in writing and filed with
the Borough Clerk in the form provided by the Borough therefor and
unless said applicant shall agree to operate said autocab within the
Borough of Runnemede for at least six days in every week and at least
eight hours in each operating day and unless such applicant shall
be determined to be of good moral character and until the owner thereof
shall have submitted proof satisfactory to the Mayor and Borough Council
that such owner is financially able to pay any judgment which may
be obtained against him for injuries or damages to persons and property
resulting from an accident occurring by reason of the ownership, maintenance
or use of such autocab or cabs owned and operated by the same owner
and 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 at least $100,000 per individual and $300,000
per accident against loss, damage or injury, as aforesaid, and provided
further that if such person operates more than one autocab, such coverage
shall apply to each and every vehicle so operated.
Every person operating autocabs as aforesaid
shall execute and deliver to the Borough Clerk at the time of the
filing of the insurance policy or bond aforesaid a power of attorney
in which the owner shall appoint the chief fiscal officer of the Borough
as 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 such person by virtue of the indemnity granted under the insurance
policy or bond filed as aforesaid.
[Amended 4-5-1988 by Ord. No. 88-4]
Every application for a license for an autocab
shall set forth the full name and address of the owner, the make and
character of the autocab, the length of time it has been in use, the
number of persons it is capable of carrying and a place where it may
be inspected by the Mayor and Borough Council or its duly authorized
representatives and the days of the week and the hours of such days
when it is proposed to operate such autocab. Each application shall
be accompanied by a fee of $50 for each autocab to be licensed; provided,
however, that in the case of a license issued after the first day
of August in any year, the fee for the balance of such year shall
be $25.
Every autocab license shall expire on the 31st
day of December in the year in which it is issued; provided, however,
that if an application for renewal shall have been filed on or before
December 31, said autocab may be operated pending the issuance of
a new license until the 15th day of January next succeeding; and provided
further that application for licenses for the calendar year following
the year in which the application is filed shall not be filed prior
to the 15th day of December in the year in which the application is
filed.
Every licensed autocab shall display in a manner
required or approved by the Mayor and Borough Council, its license
number. Upon the issuance of the license of any autocab, there shall
be furnished to the owner a card setting forth the name and address
of the owner and the number of the license, which card shall be permanently
displayed in the interior of the autocab, together with a statement
or schedule of the charges for the use thereof.
The Mayor and Borough Council is hereby authorized
and empowered to establish from time to time public hack stands in
the several streets and public places of the Borough which it may
determine to be for the best interest and convenience of the public,
and shall cause the same to be clearly and distinctly marked by proper
signs setting forth the exact locations and boundaries of such public
hack stands and the number of autocabs which is permitted to occupy
the same at one time.
No autocab shall occupy any public hack stand
unless such autocab shall have been licensed by the Mayor and Borough
Council.
[Amended 3-6-1956 by Ord. No. 138; 3-17-1970 by Ord. No.
238]
No more than 12 autocab licenses shall be in
effect in the Borough of Runnemede at any one time.
No license shall be issued hereunder, nor shall
any autocab licensed hereunder be operated or driven by any person,
until such applicant or driver shall have first notified the police
officer in charge of the Borough police of such intentions, and such
officer shall, after an investigation of such applicant or driver,
make a report thereof to the Mayor and Borough Council, which report
shall be considered by said body in passing upon applications for
licenses as aforesaid, and, in the case of drivers only, will be considered
in passing upon the issuance of a certificate of approval, which is
hereby declared as being essential to the driving of any autobus or
taxi licensed hereunder; such certificates of approval are to be signed
by the Mayor and attested by the Borough Clerk.
The Mayor and Borough Council, after a hearing, is hereby authorized and empowered to suspend or revoke any license issued under the provisions hereof for any violation of the law or of the provisions of this chapter, or for failure to comply with the provisions of Chapter 16, Title 48, of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, or the amendments thereto or supplements thereof, or for failure to operate such autocab in the manner and at the times set forth in the application for such license.
[Amended 3-17-1970 by Ord. No. 238[1]]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalty as provided in § 1-15, General penalty, of this Code.
[Amended 3-17-1970 by Ord. No. 238]
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon
publication as required by law, except that any license issued hereunder
shall continue in force until December 31, of each year, unless revoked
or suspended.
