Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions
of Ordinance Nos. 12/6/28 and 10/10/46.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and terms
shall be deemed to have the meanings herein given to them:
Shall mean any automobile or motor car with a carrying capacity
of not more than nine (9) 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 the borough and
which is hired by charter or for a particular contractor 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. Nothing in this definition
contained shall be construed to include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses
employed solely in transporting school children or teachers or autobuses
which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities
to carry insurance against loss from liability imposed by law on account
of bodily injury or death.
Shall mean the business of carrying passengers for hire by
autocabs.
Shall mean any individual, copartnership, association, corporation,
or joint-stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
Shall mean any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway, or
other public place.
Shall mean any automobile commonly called a 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 of the street or public highways of this State, and particularly
accepts and discharges such persons as may offer themselves for transportation
from points or places to points or places within or without the State.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
It shall be unlawful for any owner of a taxi to operate a taxi
service along any street in the borough without first obtaining a
license from the mayor and council.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
It shall be unlawful for any owner of an autocab, limousine
or livery service having its principal place of business in the Borough
of Bogota to operate said service wholly or partly along any street
in the Borough of Bogota without first obtaining a certificate of
compliance from the borough clerk.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
a.
Applications
for certificates and licenses shall be made in writing, upon forms
to be furnished by the borough clerk, signed by the applicant and
filed with the borough clerk. Applications shall contain or be accompanied
by the following information:
1.
The name, age, and residence of the applicant; if a partnership,
the names, ages, and residences of all the partners, together with
the business and address of the partnership; and if a corporation,
the names, ages, and residences of the president, secretary and treasurer
thereof and the period of residence in the State, County, and city.
2.
Copy of insurance policy complying with N.J.S.A. 48:16-14 or N.J.S.A.
48:16-3.
3.
Name of insurance company, the number and the date of expiration
of the policy or bond required by N.J.S.A. 48:16-14 or N.J.S.A. 48:16-3,
and a description of every autocab, limousine, or taxi insured thereunder
and the registration number of the same.
b.
Applications
made by corporations shall be signed in the name of the corporation
by the president and attested by the secretary. A certified copy of
a corporate resolution authorizing the application shall be attached.
c.
Said
application shall be duly verified by the applicant before a notary
public or some other person duly authorized to administer oaths.
d.
Each
such application shall be accompanied by the full amount of the license
fee hereinafter prescribed.
e.
The
applicant shall execute a power of attorney, by which the applicant
shall appoint the chief fiscal officer of the borough as the 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 referred to above.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
The nonrefundable fees to be paid for the certificate or license
shall be fifty ($50.00) dollars for each service, per annum.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
a.
The
clerk upon the approval of an application of an autocab, limousine
or livery service, shall issue a certificate, in duplicate, showing
that the owner of the autocab, limousine or livery service has complied
with the terms and provisions of this chapter and N.J.S.A. 48:16-13
et seq.
b.
The
certificate shall recite the name of the insurance company, the number
and date of expiration of the policy or bond, a description of every
autocab, limousine or livery service insured thereunder and the registration
number of the same.
c.
The
duplicate certificate shall be filed with the Division of Motor Vehicles
before any such car is registered as an autocab, limousine or livery
service.
d.
The
original certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous place within
the autocab, limousine or livery service.
e.
The
insurance provisions of this section may be waived only in compliance
with N.J.S.A. 48:16-19 to 20.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
a.
The
borough clerk, upon the approval of a taxi license application by
the mayor and council shall issue a license for one (1) year, or until
the insurance policy required by N.J.S.A. 48:16-3 ceases to be in
full force and effect, in the required amounts. The license shall
show the owner of the taxi and shall state that the owner has complied
with the provisions of this chapter and N.J.S.A. 48:16-1 et seq.
b.
The
license shall recite the name of the insurance company, the number
and date of expiration of the policy or bond, a description of every
taxi insured thereunder, and the registration number of the same.
c.
The
duplicate license shall be filed with the Division of Motor Vehicles
before any such car is registered as a taxi.
d.
The
original certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous place with the
taxi.
e.
The
insurance provisions of this section may be waived only in compliance
with N.J.S.A. 48:16-8 and 9.
[Ord. #1128, S1]
Any taxi license granted pursuant to section 8-2, or a certificate of compliance granted pursuant to section 8-3, may be revoked by the mayor and council, after notice to the licensee and a hearing, if it shall appear that the licensee has failed to keep in full force and effect the insurance policy, bond, or power of attorney required by this chapter and the applicable State laws, or to comply with the terms and conditions of any license.
