[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Middlesex 8-13-2019 by Ord. No. 1960. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission established by Section
4 of P.L. 2003, c.13 (N.J.S.A. 39:2A-4).
Includes any automobile or motor car used in the business
of carrying passengers for hire to provide prearranged passenger transportation
at a premium fare on a dedicated, nonscheduled, charter basis that
is not conducted on a regular route and with a seating capacity of
no more than 14 passengers, not including the driver, provided that
such a vehicle is certified by the manufacturer of the original vehicle
and the second-stage manufacturer, if applicable, to conform to all
applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards promulgated by the
United States Department of Transportation pursuant to 49 CFR Part
571 (49 CFR 571.1 et seq.) and 49 CFR Part 567 (49 CFR 567.1 et seq.).
In addition, a vehicle emission control information" label, which
contains the name and trademark of the manufacturer and an unconditional
statement of compliance with the emission requirements of the Environmental
Protection Agency, shall be present on the vehicle. Nothing in this
chapter contained shall be construed to include taxicabs, hotel buses,
buses employed solely in transporting school children or teachers,
vehicles owned and operated directly or indirectly by businesses engaged
in the practice of mortuary science when those vehicles are used exclusively
for providing transportation related to the provision of funeral services,
autobuses which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Department
of Transportation, or interstate autobuses required by federal or
state law or regulations of the Department of Transportation to carry
insurance against loss from liability imposed by law on account of
bodily injury or death.
Includes the business of carrying passengers for hire by
limousines.
Includes any individual, copartnership, association, corporation
or joint stock company, and their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed
by any court whatsoever.
In reference to a municipality, the location of the main
place of business of the limousine service in the municipality where
limousine service is conducted, where limousines are dispatched, or
where limousine drivers report for duty.
Includes any street, avenue, park, parkway, highway, or other
public place.
Except as provided N.J.S.A. 48:16-22.4, and notwithstanding
any other requirement of this chapter or of any other ordinance of
the Borough of Middlesex, no limousine shall be operated wholly or
partly along any street in the municipality until the owner of the
limousine shall have filed with the Clerk of the municipality in which
the owner has his principal place of business an insurance policy
of a company duly licensed to transact business under the insurance
laws of this state in the sum of $1,500,000 against loss by reason
of the liability imposed by law upon every limousine owner for damages
on account of bodily injury or death suffered by any person as the
result of an accident occurring by reason of the ownership, maintenance
or use of the limousine upon any public street.
A.Â
Any limousine service having its principal place of business in the
Borough of Middlesex shall be required to obtain a license to operate
such a service from the Clerk of the Borough.
B.Â
The Borough Clerk, upon the filing of the required insurance policy
and the payment of a fee of $50 for each limousine service plus $10
for each limousine which is covered under the required insurance policy,
shall issue, in duplicate, a license to operate showing the owner
if the limousine has complied with the terms and provisions of N.J.S.A.
48:16-13 et seq.
C.Â
The license issued by the Borough Clerk shall recite the name of
the insurance company, the number and date of expiration of the policy,
a description of every limousine insured thereunder, and the registration
number of the same.
D.Â
The duplicate license shall be filed with the Commission by the limousine
service before any such car is registered as a limousine.
