As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTOCABS
Includes any automobile or motor car with a carrying capacity of not more than nine passengers, not including the driver, used 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 this state and which is hired by charter or for a particular contract or by the day or hour or other fixed period or to transport passengers to a specified place or places or which charges a fair or price agreed upon in advance between the operator and the passenger. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses employed solely for transporting school children or teachers or autobuses which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities or interstate autobuses required by federal or state law or rules of the Board of Public Utilities to carry insurance against loss from liability imposed by law on account of bodily injury or death.
LIMOUSINE OR LIVERY SERVICE
Includes the business of carrying passengers for hire by autocabs.
PERSON
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever.
STREET
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway, boulevard or other public place.
There are hereby established two classes of autocab licenses, to be known as "autocab owner's license" and "autocab driver's license."
A. 
Autocab owner's license. An autocab owner's license shall entitle the autocab therein described to be operated anywhere within this Township by a driver duly licensed hereunder, until such license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable. There shall be no limit to the number of autocab owner's licenses issued.
B. 
Autocab's driver's license. An autocab driver's license shall entitle the person named therein to operate within this Township any autocab duly licensed hereunder, until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable. There shall be no limit to the number of autocab driver's licenses issued.
No person shall hire out, keep or use for hire or pay or to be kept or used for hire or pay any autocab within the Township without first having obtained an owner's license for that purpose as provided by this chapter.
A. 
Applications for licenses shall be filed with the Township Clerk, who shall, in the case of an autocab owner's or driver's license, submit the application to the Township Committee or its designee for approval.
B. 
Each application for an autocab driver's license shall, in addition to the requirements of any law of the state, establish to the satisfaction of the Township Committee or its designee that such applicant has been regularly licensed by the Motor Vehicle Department to operate a motor vehicle. The applicant shall submit a certificate from a licensed physician from the State of New Jersey, at the applicant's expense, certifying that the applicant has been examined within the preceding 30 days and that such applicant has no infirmity of body or mind or visual impairment or deficiency which might render the applicant unfit for safe operation of an autocab. Each applicant shall submit his certification from the Motor Vehicle Department of any traffic violations over the preceding five years and shall furnish with the application two recent photographs of himself or herself, being not less than 1 1/4 inches in height by one inch in length, one of which shall be attached to the license and one of which shall be filed with the application. No person shall drive an autocab in the Township until the license to drive the same, herein provided for, is issued to the driver.
No license required by § 264-8 shall be issued or renewed unless the autocab sought to be licensed has been thoroughly and carefully inspected by the Township Clerk or its designee and a certificate issued that the same is found to be in a safe, comfortable condition for the transportation of passengers or good appearance and well-painted.
An autocab owner's or driver's license shall not be issued until the applicant shall deliver to the Township Clerk, concurrently with the filing of the application and insurance policy referred to herein, a power of attorney executed by the applicant wherein and whereby the applicant shall appoint the Township Clerk as his, her or its true and lawful attorney for the purpose of acknowledging service of any process out of a court of competent jurisdiction to be served against the insured by virtue of the indemnity granted under the insurance policy filed pursuant to this chapter.
A. 
Insurance requirements.
(1) 
No autocab service shall be operated wholly or partly along any street in this Township until the owner of the autocab shall have filed with the Township Clerk, if the owner has his or her principal place of business within this Township, an insurance policy of a company duly licensed to transact business under the insurance laws of this state, in a sum no less than $450,000 against loss by reason of the liability imposed by law upon every autocab for damages on account of bodily injury or death suffered by any person as a result of an accident occurring by reason of the ownership, maintenance or use of the autocab upon any public street.
(2) 
If the owner has his or her principal place of business in another municipality, then a copy of the insurance policy filed with such municipality shall be filed with the Township Clerk.
(3) 
The operation shall be permitted only so long as the insurance policy remains in full force and effect as to the full and collectable amount of $450,000. A limousine owner or anyone on its behalf shall not undertake to cancel or have canceled any such policy without first giving the Township Clerk 10 days' notice of the intention of the insurance company which issued such policy to cancel the same.
(4) 
The insurance policy shall provide for the payment of any final judgment recovered by any person on account of the ownership, maintenance and use of such autocab or any fault in respect thereto and shall be for the benefit of every person suffering loss, damage or injury as aforesaid. The insurance policy shall also be conditioned for the payment of a sum no less than $50,000 to satisfy all claims for damages to property of one or all such persons resulting from an accident, by reason of the ownership, operation, maintenance or use of such autocab upon any public street.
B. 
Issuance of certificate for operation.
(1) 
The Township Clerk, upon filing of the required application, insurance policy and power of attorney, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the owner of the autocab service has complied with the terms and provisions of this chapter.
(2) 
The certificate shall state the name of the insurance company, the number and date of expiration of the policy and a description and the registration number of each autocab service insured thereunder. The duplicate certificate shall be filed with the Division of Motor Vehicles before any such vehicle is registered as an autocab service.
(3) 
An autocab shall not be operated by anyone for service within the Township unless the driver thereof has issued an existing and valid autocab driver's license.
C. 
Display of certificate. The principal certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous place within the autocab.