[Adopted 3-11-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-01]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated, except as these terms are otherwise defined by
N.J.S.A. 48:16-13 or its successor statute:
APPLICANT
The owner of a limousine or limousine service that has submitted
an application for a license from the Township of Sandyston under
this article.
BUSINESS ADDRESS
Commercial office space at which the actual business of a
limousine service is conducted in compliance with local zoning and
use regulations. A business address may or may not be the principal
place of business.
LICENSE YEAR
The calendar year from January 1 through December 31.
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 beyond the maximum passenger seating capacity of the vehicle,
not including the driver, at the time of manufacture. Nothing contained
in this article shall be construed to include taxicabs, hotel buses,
buses employed solely in transporting school children 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.
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS
In reference to a municipality, the location of the main
place of business of the limousine service in the municipality where
limousine service is conducted, where limousines are dispatched and/or
where limousine drivers report for duty.
The duration of each license issued by the Township of Sandyston
shall be for that portion of the license year remaining from the date
of issuance of said license.
Violation of any provision of this article shall, upon conviction,
result in a penalty consisting of a fine up to a maximum of $1,250;
or imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a period of community
service for not more than 90 days, or any combination thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions of this article are hereby repealed to the extent of such
inconsistency.