[Adopted 7-9-1928 by Ord. No. 9-1928]
For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
Includes one or more automobiles or one or more other vehicles,
propelled by motor power, with a seating capacity of more than seven
passengers, and engaged in carrying passengers for hire and pay to,
from and within the City of Atlantic City.
Includes persons, firms, associations, copartnerships and
corporations, and the employees, agents and servants of such persons,
firms, associations, copartnerships and the officers, employees, agents
and servants of such corporations.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to include taxicabs,
hotel buses or buses employed solely in transporting school children
and school teachers to and from public schools in said City, or such
omnibuses, stage coaches or other vehicles commonly called "jitneys"
as operate solely within the limits of said City, or autobuses operated
wholly within the City limits of said City, by virtue of a franchise
from said City.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating autobuses, as
herein defined, to receive or discharge passengers on any street or
highway in the City of Atlantic City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or operate any autobus,
as herein defined, in the City of Atlantic City, unless such person
shall first procure, provide and maintain a terminal, on private lands,
on which terminal only such person shall park, accept and discharge
any person or persons who may offer themselves for transportation
in such autobuses.
It shall be unlawful for any autobus as herein defined to operate
on or across Atlantic Avenue, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or to
operate on any of such streets, avenues, boulevards, public places
or portions thereof, lying between Atlantic Avenue and the Boardwalk,
and between Vermont Avenue and Jackson Avenue, in said City.
It shall be unlawful to operate at any time within the City
any autobus, as herein defined, carrying passengers in excess of the
rated seating capacity of said autobus.
This article is hereby declared to be necessary in the interest
of the public safety and health of the community, to relieve congestion
of traffic on Atlantic Avenue, in the City of Atlantic City, and on
streets lying between Atlantic Avenue and the Boardwalk, and between
Vermont Avenue and Jackson Avenue, in said City, to lessen fire hazard
occasioned by the obstruction due to autobuses on said avenues and
said streets, and to provide for certain necessary police regulation
of said autobuses.
[Amended 2-1-1989 by Ord. No. 2-1989; 11-25-2008 by Ord. No.
104-2008]
Any person, firm, association, copartnership or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction
thereof, pay a fine not exceeding $2,000 for each and every offense
thereafter or be imprisoned in the City or county jail for a period
not exceeding 90 days, or both.
