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.
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.
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.