City of Hoboken, NJ
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2024-02-21
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Part II General Legislation
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Chapter 179A Taxicabs
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Article III Rules and Regulations: Owners
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration, Department of
- Ch 5 Revenue and Finance, Department of
- Ch 6 Administrative Affairs
- Ch 7 Affordable Housing, Council on
- Ch 9 Alcoholic Beverage Control, Board of
- Ch 11 Assessor
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Budget Operations
- Ch 19 Clerks, Municipal
- Ch 20 Community Development, Department of
- Ch 20A Professional Services Contracts
- Ch 20B Land Use Applicant Contribution Disclosure Statements
- Ch 20C (Reserved)
- Ch 20D (Reserved)
- Ch 21 Court, Municipal
- Ch 23 Required Wage, Benefit and Leave Standards for Building Service Workers on Covered Development Projects
- Ch 25 Electronic Accessibility of Public Information
- Ch 26 (Reserved)
- Ch 28 Public Records
- Ch 29 Ethics
- Ch 29A Financial Disclosure Statements
- Ch 30 Gift Policy
- Ch 31 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 First Source Agreements
- Ch 33 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 34A (Reserved)
- Ch 35 Civic Green Buildings
- Ch 36 Cannabis Review Board
- Ch 36A Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority
- Ch 37 Hoboken Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 38 Housing Authority
- Ch 39 Climate Action and Innovation, Department of
- Ch 42 Historic Preservation
- Ch 43 Self-Insurance Plan and Fund
- Ch 44 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 46 Public Property
- Ch 48 Library: Board of Trustees
- Ch 51 Mayor, Office of
- Ch 53 Nursing Service, Public Health
- Ch 54 Officers and Employees
- Ch 55 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 56 Transportation and Parking Utility
- Ch 56A Parklands
- Ch 57 Water Utility
- Ch 58 Parks, Recreation, and Public Works, Department of
- Ch 59 Police Department
- Ch 59A Public Safety, Department of
- Ch 60 Purchasing
- Ch 61 Rainforests, Protection of
- Ch 62 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 63 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 64 North Hudson Sewerage Authority
- Ch 64A Transportation and Parking, Department of
- Ch 65 Youth-Serving Organizations
- General Legislation
- Ch 65A Affordable Housing
- Ch 65B Development Fees
- Ch 66 Alarms
- Ch 68 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 68A Alcoholic Beverages: Temporary Provisions
- Ch 74 Amusement Devices; Vending Machines
- Ch 76 Asbestos and Dust Protection
- Ch 77 Auctioneers
- Ch 79 (Reserved)
- Ch 79A Building Demolition
- Ch 80 Buildings and Dwellings, Dangerous or Unfit
- Ch 83 Certificates of Occupancy; Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 85 Condominium Conversions
- Ch 86 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 87 Crane Regulations
- Ch 89 Curfew; Civil Disturbances
- Ch 93 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 94 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 95 Dwellings; Minimum Standards
- Ch 97 Filming
- Ch 98 Firearms
- Ch 99 Fire Insurance Liens
- Ch 101 Fire Prevention
- Ch 104 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 108 Games of Chance on Sundays
- Ch 110 Garbage, Rubbish and Litter
- Ch 113 Glue, Sale and Use of
- Ch 115 Health/Sanitary Code
- Ch 116 Heating of Buildings; Fuel Oil
- Ch 118 Horse Flesh
- Ch 120 Maintenance of Hotels and Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 125 Lead Paint
- Ch 128 Licenses
- Ch 133 Noise Control
- Ch 135 Nuclear-Free Zone
- Ch 136 Nuisances
- Ch 138 Outdoor Dining
- Ch 140 Parking Lots, Surface
- Ch 141 Parking Garages and Lots, Public
- Ch 141A Parking Permits
- Ch 145 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 146 Peddlers; Transient Merchants
- Ch 147 Mobile Retail Food Vendors
- Ch 148 Property Maintenance
- Ch 151 Recycling
- Ch 154 Rental Housing; Warehousing
- Ch 155 Rent Control
- Ch 158 (Reserved)
- Ch 160 Sales
- Ch 163 Sewers and Sewerage Disposal
- Ch 166 Stormwater Management
- Ch 168 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 168A (Reserved)
- Ch 171 Strike Employees
- Ch 177 Taxation
- Ch 179 Special Improvement District
- Ch 179A Taxicabs
- Ch 179A Art III Rules and Regulations: Owners
- § 179A-36 Rules and regulations: owners.
- § 179A-37 Schedule of violations and penalties.
- Ch 180 Shuttle Buses
- Ch 180A Limousines
- Ch 183 Tattoo, Body Piercing, and Body Art Establishments
- Ch 184 Towing
- Ch 185 Body-Piercing Parlors
- Ch 187 Union Label, Use of
- Ch 190 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 191 Vehicles, Unregistered
- Ch 192 Parking for Persons With Disabilities
- Ch 193 Water
- Ch 194 Waterfront
- Ch 195 (Reserved)
- Ch 196 Zoning
- Ch 197 Government Energy Aggregation Program
- Ch 198 Third-Party Takeout and Delivery Service Fees
- Ch 199 Service Worker Retention
- Ch 201 Rebuild by Design Regulations
- Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 200 Board of Health Legislation
- Appendix
- Ch A260 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A261 Mobile Digital Data Communications Systems
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The following rules shall apply to all owners of taxicabs. Such
rules, numbered sequentially below, shall be referred to by chapter,
section and rule number. They are set forth below as follows:
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Rule No.
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Rule Specification
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|---|---|
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201
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An owner shall not dispatch a taxicab or for-hire vehicle not
currently licensed by the City.
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202
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An owner who is not currently licensed shall not advertise or
hold himself out as doing business as a taxi or taxicab or any name
that would tend to confuse the public as to the owner's license
status.
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203
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An owner shall not cause to be dispatched a taxicab or for-hire
vehicle unless the driver thereof has a current taxi operator's
license.
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204
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An owner, while performing his duties and responsibilities as
a taxicab or for-hire vehicle owner, shall not commit or attempt to
commit, alone or in concert with another, any fraud, misrepresentation
or larceny or perform any willful act or omission which is against
the best interests of the public, although not specifically prohibited
in these rules.
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205
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An owner shall not use or permit any other person to use any
of his taxicabs or for-hire vehicles, his garage or his office of
record for any unlawful purpose.
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206
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An owner shall not conceal any evidence of crime connected with
his taxicabs or for-hire vehicles, garage or office of record.
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207
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An owner shall report immediately to the police any attempt
to use any of his taxicabs or for-hire vehicles to commit a crime
or flee from the scene of a crime.
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208
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The owner shall inspect or cause to be inspected the interior
of the taxicab or for-hire vehicle immediately after the termination
of each work shift.
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209
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Property found shall be taken without delay to the Police Department,
unless it can be returned to its rightful owner sooner than being
brought to the Police Department.
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210
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An owner shall not dispatch or cause to be dispatched any taxicab
or for-hire vehicle from a public street or other public area if such
dispatch will prevent the flow of pedestrians and/or vehicular traffic
or cause inconvenience or annoyance to the public.
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211
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No owner of a vehicle shall permit a person to operate that
vehicle as a livery or a limousine who does not possess a valid limousine
or livery operator's license issued by the City of Hoboken.
|
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212
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No owner shall aid, assist, counsel, require, order, mandate,
suggest or in any other way knowingly cause a driver to violate any
rule or rules of this chapter.
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A fine of not less than the following penalties shall apply to violations of the rules set forth in § 179A-36. The penalty schedule lists the rule number, the range of fines associated with a violation of that rule and whether the violator is required to make a personal appearance to answer such charge.
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Rule
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Penalty/Fine
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Appearance Required
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|---|---|---|
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201
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$350 to $600 and/or suspension of 20 days
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Yes
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202
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$350 to $600 and/or suspension of 20 days
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Yes
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203
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$350 to $600 and/or suspension of 5 days
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Yes
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204
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$500 to $1,000 and/or suspension of 20 days
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Yes
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205
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$500 to $1,000 and/or suspension of 20 days
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Yes
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|
206
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$500 to $1,000 and/or suspension of 20 days
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Yes
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207
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$500 to $1,000 and/or suspension of 20 days
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Yes
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|
208
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$150 to $250
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No
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209
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$150 to $250
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No
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|
210
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$150 to $250
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No
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|
211
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$350 to $500
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Yes
|
|
212
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$750 to $1,000 and suspension or revocation
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Yes
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Editor's Note: In addition to those penalties provided
for by N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.
