As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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 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 fare
or price agreed upon in advance between the operator and the passenger.
Includes any automobile or motor bus, commonly called "jitney,"
with a carrying capacity of not more than 13 passengers, operated
under municipal consent upon a route established wholly within the
limits of a single municipality or with a carrying capacity of not
more than 20 passengers operated under municipal consent upon a route
established wholly within the limits of not more than four contiguous
municipalities within any county of the fifth or sixth class, which
route in either case does not, in whole or in part, parallel upon
the same street the line of any street railway or traction railway
or any other jitney route.
Includes the business of carrying passengers for hire by
autocabs or limousines.
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation
or joint-stock company, their lessees or receivers appointed by any
court whatsoever.
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway or other
public place.
Includes any automobile or motor car, commonly called "taxi,"
engaged 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 streets in the Borough and particularly accepts and
discharges such persons as may offer themselves for transportation
from points or places within or without the Borough.
[Amended 9-18-2000 by Ord. No. 1,249, effective 10-8-2000]
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by New Jersey statute or as otherwise provided by this chapter, any person violating any provision of this chapter or any supplement thereto, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the fines and penalties set forth in Chapter 1, § 1-2, General penalty, of this Code, in the discretion of the judge imposing the same.
Taxicabs, autocabs, limousines or jitneys for the exclusive
use or transportation of senior citizens, commonly called "dial-a-ride,"
operated or run over any of the streets or public highways of this
state shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
