As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any person who drives a taxicab or car service vehicle within
this Township.
The transportation in such taxicab of one or more persons
for hire along any of the streets of this Township. Accepting a passenger
to be transported for hire within this Township shall be deemed to
be "operation of a taxicab" within the Township with the meaning thereof.
The "operation of a taxicab" in any of the above-described methods
by one other than the owner shall be deemed "operation" by the owner
thereof as well as by the person actually driving the same. The transportation
of any person other than the owner or driver in any motor vehicle
under the business identity or sign of "taxi," "taxicab," "cab," "car
service" or term or word of similar connotation shall be operation
of a taxicab.
Any person, corporation or association in whose name title
to any taxicab is registered with the New Jersey Division of Motor
Vehicles or who appears in such records to be the conditional vendee
or lessee thereof.
Includes any automobile or motor car, commonly called "taxi," or "car service" 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 the streets of the Township and which accepts passengers in the Township for transportation to points or places within or without said Township. This definition or Articles I through V of this chapter does not apply to limousines and passenger buses approved by the state.
No person shall operate any taxicab except as provided for in
this chapter within this Township unless both the taxicab and the
driver thereof are licensed pursuant to this chapter and conform to
all the provisions hereof.
There are hereby established two classes of taxicab licenses,
to be known as "taxicab driver's license" and "taxicab owner's
license," respectively.
Every license issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall
expire at 12:00 midnight of the 31st day of January of the year next
succeeding in which it was issued unless sooner surrendered, suspended
or revoked.
The number of licenses under this chapter to be issued or outstanding
in any one year may be fixed by resolution of the Township Committee.
A.
Every taxicab
business and owner to be licensed must operate from and have a legal
business office with an operating telephone and two-way communications
system to its taxicabs. The office must also have suitable arrangements
for legal off-street parking of the taxicabs for the business.
B.
Every taxicab
driver, to be licensed, must operate from and be employed by a taxicab
owner licensed by the Township.
The Township may, in its discretion, refuse to issue or renew
or may, after notice and hearing, revoke or suspend:
A.
Any license of either class if the applicant or licensee, within
two years next preceding the filing of an application hereunder or
who, having obtained a license while said license is in effect hereunder,
has been or is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude in this
or any other jurisdiction, or of being a disorderly person in this
or any other jurisdiction, or of reckless driving or whose driving
privileges have been revoked in this or any other state, or who violates
any provision of this chapter, or who has any judgment unsatisfied
of record against him arising out of an automobile accident, or who
has failed or fails to render reasonable, prompt, safe and adequate
taxicab services, or who has not complied fully with all the requirements
of this chapter for such class of license;
B.
Any taxicab driver's license if the applicant has any communicable
or contagious disease;
C.
Any taxicab owner's license if the motor vehicle licensed or
to be licensed, by reason of unsafe or unsanitary condition, is dangerous
to the safety and health of the occupants or others, or if the policy
of insurance required by this chapter or by any statute of New Jersey
has lapsed or such coverage is not maintained at all times; or
D.
Any license of either class, if the driver or owner shall have violated
or failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter.
