[Ord. No. 11-1966, S1]
TAXICAB
Shall mean 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 of the streets within the borough and which particularly
accepts and discharges such persons as may offer themselves for transportation
from points or places to points or places within or without the borough.
DRIVER
Shall mean any person in whose name title to any taxicab
is registered with the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles, or
who appears in such records to be the conditional vendee or lessee
thereof.
OPERATION OF A TAXICAB
Shall consist of transporting in such taxicab one or more
persons for hire along any of the streets in this borough. Accepting
a passenger to be transported for hire within this borough or from
a point within this borough to a point outside of the borough limits
or discharging a passenger transported for hire from a point within
the borough limits shall be deemed to be operation of a taxicab within
the meaning thereof. The operation of a taxicab in any of the above
described manners by one other than the owner, shall be deemed operation
by the owner thereof as well as by the person actually driving the
taxicab. The transportation of any person other than the owner or
driver in any motor vehicle bearing sign therein or thereon using
the words "taxi," "taxicab," "cab" or "hack" shall be prima facie
evidence of operation.
LICENSED
Shall mean licensed in accordance with this chapter unless
otherwise stated.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S2]
No person shall operate any taxi cab within the borough unless
both the taxicab and the driver there are licensed and conform to
the provisions of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S3,
4 & 5]
There are hereby established two classes of taxicab licenses
to be known as "taxicab driver's license" and "taxicab owner's
license" respectively.
a. A "taxicab driver's license" shall entitle the person named
therein to operate within the borough any taxicab duly licensed hereunder
until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended or revoked
and shall not be transferable.
b. A "taxicab owner's license" shall entitle the taxicab therein
described to be operated in the borough by a driver duly licensed
hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered, suspended
or revoked and shall not be transferable.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S6]
Any license issued pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall
expire midnight December 31 of the year in which it was issued unless
sooner revoked or suspended.
[Ord. No. 2-1967, S1]
The total number of taxicab owner's licenses that may be
issued and outstanding at any one time is hereby fixed at five.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S8]
a. All applications for the issuance or renewal of any license of either
class shall be made to the borough council on forms adopted by the
council and obtained from the borough clerk and designed to elicit
information respecting the identification, responsibility and law-abiding
habits of the applicant.
b. The borough clerk is hereby authorized to issue temporary taxicab driver's license pending the approval by the borough council of any application for a taxicab driver's license submitted in accordance with this chapter provided that the chief of police of the borough shall certify to the borough clerk, that after due investigation, the applicant is not ineligible under subsection
6-2.7.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S9]
Each applicant for a license of any class shall supply the information
requested on the application in full and verify the correctness thereof
by this oath or affirmation and thereafter file the completed application
with the borough clerk together with the full amount of the proper
fee hereinafter fixed therefor.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S10
& 11]
a. Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall file with
his application two photographs each three and one-half inches in
size, clearly depicting the facial features of the applicant, both
of which photographs shall thereupon become the property of the borough
and be retained with the application form unless the application is
issued, in which event one of the photographs shall be permanently
affixed to the license card in a space provided therein.
b. Each applicant for a taxicab driver's license shall be fingerprinted
by the police department of the borough which fingerprints shall thereupon
become the property of the borough and be retained with the application
form.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S12,
13 & 14]
a. Each applicant for a taxicab owner's license shall have a regularly
registered business office and shall therein have a telephone operating.
b. Every applicant for a taxicab owner's license shall submit the
insurance policy or bond required by R.S. 48:16-3 and R.S. 48:16-4
covering the taxicab to be licensed, and shall execute and deliver
to the borough clerk concurrently with the filing of the policy or
bond aforesaid, a power of attorney, wherein and whereby the owner
shall appoint the borough clerk his 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 or bond filed
in accordance with R.S. 48:16-5.
c. The borough clerk, upon filing of the required insurance policy or
bond, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the owner
of the taxicab has complied with the terms of the Revised Statutes
aforesaid, which certificates shall recite the name of the insurance
company, the number and date of expiration of the policy or bond,
a description of the taxicab insured thereunder and the registration
number of the same. The duplicate certificates shall be filed with
the department of motor vehicles before any such car is licensed as
a taxicab. The original certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous
place within the taxicab.
[Ord. No. 2-67; Ord. No. 4-82]
The annual fee for each taxicab driver's license hereafter
issued or any renewal thereof shall be ten ($10.00) dollars for each
year or portion thereof. The taxicab owner's license shall be
seventy-five ($75.00) dollars for each taxicab for each year or a
portion of a year for which the license is issued or renewed, and
all such licenses shall be under the charge and control of the person
applying therefor and he shall be responsible for the operation of
all cars so licensed to him.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S16]
The borough council may, in its discretion refuse to renew or
may, after notice and hearing revoke or suspend:
a. Any license of either class if the applicant or licensee has been
once convicted of a crime in this or any other jurisdiction, or convicted
of being a disorderly person or of a violation of Title 39, "Motor
Vehicles and Traffic Regulation" of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey
or who has been dishonorably discharged from the armed forces of the
United States of America, or who violates any provision of this chapter,
or has any judgment unsatisfied of record against him arising out
of an automobile accident or who is an alien citizen of any nation
between whom the United States of America a state of war exists, or
who has made false answers in his application for such license or
any renewal thereof, or who has failed to render reasonably prompt,
safe and adequate taxicab service, or who has not complied fully with
all requirements of this chapter, for such class of license.
b. Any taxicab driver's license if the licensee or applicant has
in any degree contributed to any injury to person or damage to property
arising out of negligent operation of a motor vehicle, or 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 conditions is dangerous
to the safety or health of the occupants or others, or if the policy
of insurance or bond or power of attorney required by R.S. 48:16-3,
R.S. 4816-4 and R.S. 48:16-5 has not been furnished or kept in force,
or if the owners fail to comply with any terms or conditions imposed
by the borough council or any laws in this State.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S17
& 18]
a. Each applicant granted a taxicab driver's license shall be issued
a license card in evidence thereof in a form approved by borough council
and signed by the borough clerk in its behalf. Such license card shall
at all times be prominently displayed and adequately protected in
the interior of any taxicab operated by the licensee so that the face
thereof shall be at all times in full view of and plainly legible
to any passenger seated on the rear seat of such taxicab; and the
license card shall at all times remain the property of the borough
and on direction of the borough council shall at once be surrendered
to the borough clerk.
b. No taxicab driver's license card other than that of the licensee
actually operating the taxicab at the time shall be displayed therein.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S1]
The borough clerk shall at the time the council acts on any
application pay the fees receptive therefor over to the borough treasurer.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S20]
Every person so licensed as aforesaid shall not refuse to carry
local fares or passengers.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S21]
Owners and drivers of taxicabs licensed out of the jurisdiction
of this Borough may be allowed to enter their taxicabs in the Borough,
but on specific call only, whether transporting a passenger within
this Borough, or from a point within this Borough to a point outside
the Borough limits or discharging a passenger transported from a point
outside of the Borough limits to a point within the Borough limits,
and the name of the passenger so calling shall be given by the owner
or driver when requested by the Borough police or other lawful persons.
Such taxicabs shall not be parked in this Borough nor shall the drivers
thereof cruise on the streets of this Borough at any time for the
purpose of soliciting passengers nor shall they, in the nighttime
or other periods of darkness, when in this Borough, permit any advertising
lights on the taxicab to remain unlighted, provided, however, that
the same or similar substantial reciprocal rights are granted to the
owners and drivers of taxicabs licensed in this Borough by the municipalities
in which the aforesaid owners or drivers are licensed.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S22]
All vehicles herein required to be licensed, used or operated
for the carrying of passengers within the scope of this ordinance
shall be automobile sedans with a minimum of three doors, at least
two of the doors shall be for the conclusive use of the passengers.
The automobiles shall be at all times clean and in good repair.
[Ord. No. 11-1966, S23]
a. Any dispute as to the fare shall be determined by the officer in
charge of the police station at the time of the dispute.
b. Every driver of a taxicab shall when requested, give a passenger
a receipt for the fare paid.
c. No person other than the licensed driver of the taxicab shall ride
or sit in the compartment of the taxicab reserved for the driver,
unless the passengers, for reasons of disability, cannot occupy the
rear seat.
d. Every vehicle licensed hereunder shall have fastened in a conspicuous
place therein a printed card showing the rates which shall be charged
for transportation.
e. Every vehicle licensed hereunder shall have posted on both front
doors or both rear doors of the vehicle, the rates for transportation
in figures of not less than two and one-half inches in height and
letters of not less than one inch in height.
[Ord. No. 6-75, S1 &
2]
Every applicant and possessor of a taxicab owner's license
shall submit an insurance policy of automobile liability insurance
of a company licensed to do business in the State of New Jersey in
the amount of one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars per person
and three hundred thousand ($300,000.00) dollars per accident for
a bodily injury and fifty ($50.00) dollars for property damage. The
policy of insurance as described in the preceding paragraph shall
be delivered to the borough clerk and shall be furnished annually
upon the renewal of the license.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
As used in this section:
a. LIMOUSINE – Shall mean and includes any automobile or motor
car, with the capacity of five but less than ten passengers plus driver,
engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, 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; provided, however, that the
term "limousine" shall not include taxicabs, hotel buses or buses
employed solely in transporting school children or teachers or auto
buses which are subject to the jurisdiction of the board of utility
commissioners, or interstate auto buses required by Federal law or
the rules of the board of public utility commissioners to carry insurance
against loss from liability imposed by law on account of bodily injury
or death.
b. NUMBER OF OWNERS LICENSES – Shall mean the total number of
limousine owner's licenses that may be issued and outstanding
at any one time is hereby fixed at five.
c. DRIVER – Shall mean any person who drives a limousine within
the borough.
d. LICENSED – Shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate
subsections of this section, unless otherwise stated.
e. BOROUGH – Shall mean the Borough of Cliffside Park.
f. OPERATION OF A LIMOUSINE – Shall consist of accepting and transporting
in such limousine one or more persons for hire from a point within
the borough. The operation of a limousine by one other than the owner
shall be deemed operation by the owner thereof as well as by the person
actually driving the same.
g. OWNER – Shall mean any person, corporation or association in
whose name title to any limousine is registered with the New Jersey
Department of Motor Vehicles, or who appears in such records to be
the conditional vendee or lessee thereof.
h. COUNCIL – Shall mean the Mayor and Council of the Borough of
Cliffside Park.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
No limousine shall be operated within the borough unless both
the limousine and the driver thereof are licensed pursuant to this
section and conform to all of the provisions hereof.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
There are hereby established two classes of limousine licenses
to be known as "limousine driver's license" and "limousine owner's
license," respectively.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
A "limousine driver's license" shall entitle the person
named therein to operate within the Borough of Cliffside Park any
limousine duly licensed hereunder until the license either expires
or is surrendered, suspended or revoked and shall not be transferable.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
A "limousine owner's license" shall entitle the limousine
therein described to be operated in this borough by a driver duly
licensed hereunder until the license either expires or is surrendered,
suspended or revoked, and shall not be transferable.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
Any license issued pursuant to the terms of this section shall
expire at midnight on December 31 of the year in which it was issued
unless sooner surrendered, suspended or revoked.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. All applications for the issuance or the renewal of any license of
either class shall be made to the council on forms to be obtained
from the borough clerk and designed to elicit information respecting
the identification, responsibility and law abiding habits of the applicant.
b. Each applicant for a license of any class shall supply the information
requested on the application in full and verify the correctness thereof
by his oath or affirmation and thereafter file the completed application
with the police department together with the full amount of the proper
fee hereinafter fixed therefor.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. All applications for the issuance or renewal of a "limousine owner's
license" shall be made in writing, in duplicate, and shall contain
the full name and address of the owner, the serial number, type, color,
year and make of the limousine and the number of persons it is to
carry. Any and every change of address of the owner shall be reported
to the borough clerk within three days after such change.
b. Every person obtaining a "limousine owner's license" shall be
at least 18 years of age and a citizen of the United States and shall
have a regularly registered business office and shall therein have
a telephone operating.
c. No "limousine owner's license" shall be issued until the limousine
has been thoroughly inspected by the police department and found to
be in a safe, clean and sanitary condition for the transportation
of passengers.
d. No limousine licensed under this section shall be maintained or operated
on the streets of the borough except by a driver licensed in accordance
with the provisions of this subsection.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. Each applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall be at
least 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States and a holder
of a valid driver's license issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles,
State of New Jersey.
b. Each applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall file
with his application two photographs, each three and one half inches
square clearly depicting the facial features of the applicant, both
of which photographs shall thereupon become the property of the borough
and be retained with the application form unless the application shall
be issued in which event one of the photographs shall be permanently
affixed to the license card in a space provided therein.
c. Each applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall be fingerprinted
by the police department of the borough, which fingerprints shall
thereupon become the property of the borough and be retained with
the application form.
d. All changes of residence on the part of the holder of any "limousine
driver's license" issued under this section shall be reported
in writing to the borough clerk within three days after such change
and shall be directed to the police department of the borough.
e. The borough clerk is hereby authorized to issue temporary "limousine
driver's licenses" pending the approval by the council of any
application for a "limousine driver's license" submitted in accordance
with the provisions of this section provided that the chief of police
of the borough shall first certify to the borough clerk that after
due investigation, the applicant is not ineligible under the provisions
of this section.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. Every applicant for a "limousine driver's license" shall submit
the insurance policy or bond required by Sections 48:16-14 and 48:16-15
of the Statutes of New Jersey covering the limousine to be licensed
and shall execute and deliver to the borough clerk concurrently with
the filing of the policy or bond aforesaid a power of attorney, wherein
and whereby the owner shall appoint the borough clerk his 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
or bond filed in accordance with Section 48: 16-16 of the Statutes
of New Jersey.
b. The borough clerk, upon filing of the required insurance policy or
bond, shall issue a certificate in duplicate showing that the owner
of the limousine has complied with the terms of the New Jersey Statutes,
aforementioned, which certificate shall recite the name of the insurance
company, the number and date of expiration of the policy or bond,
a description of the limousine insured thereunder and the registration
number of the same. The duplicate certificate shall be filed with
the Department of Motor Vehicles before any such car is licensed as
a limousine. The original certificate shall be posted in a conspicuous
place within the limousine.
[Ord. No. 16-80; Ord. 4-82]
The annual license fee for each limousine driver's license
hereafter issued or any renewal thereof shall be ten ($10.00) dollars
for each year or portion of a year for which the license is issued
or renewed. The annual fee for each limousine owner's license
hereafter issued or any renewal thereof, shall be seventy-five ($75.00)
dollars for each limousine for each year or portion of a year for
which the license is issued or renewed and all such licenses shall
be under the charge and control of the person applying therefor and
he shall be responsible for the operation of all cars so licensed
to him.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
The council 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 has been
once convicted of a crime in this or any other jurisdiction or convicted
of being a disorderly person or of a violation of Title 39, Motor
Vehicles and Traffic Regulation," of the Statutes of New Jersey, or
who has been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the
United States of America, or who violates any provision of this section,
or has any judgment unsatisfied of record against him arising out
of an automobile accident, or who has made false answers in his application
for such license or any renewal thereof, or who has failed or fails
to render reasonably prompt, safe, and adequate limousine service,
or who has not complied fully with all requirements of this section
for such class of license;
b. Any "limousine driver's license" if the licensee or the applicant
has in any degree contributed to any injury to persons or damage to
property arising out of negligent operation of a motor vehicle, or
has any communicable or contagious disease;
c. Any "limousine owner's license" if the motor vehicle licensed
or to be licensed, by reason of unsafe or unsanitary conditions, is
dangerous or unsafe to the occupants or others, or if the policy of
insurance or bond or power of attorney required by Sections 48:16-14,
48:16-15 and 48:16-16 of the New Jersey Statutes of the aforementioned
has not been furnished or kept in force, or if the owner fails to
comply with any terms or conditions imposed by the council, or any
law of this State.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. Each applicant granted a "limousine driver's license" shall
be issued a license card in evidence thereof in a form approved by
council and signed by the borough clerk in its behalf. Such license
card shall at all times be prominently displayed and adequately protected
in the interior of any vehicle operated by the licensee so that the
face thereof shall be at all times in full view of and plainly legible
to any passenger seated on the rear seat of such limousine; and the
license card shall at all times be and remain the property of the
borough and on direction of council shall at once be surrendered to
the borough clerk.
b. No "limousine driver's license" card other than that of the
licensee actually operating the limousine at the time shall be displayed
therein.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. Drivers of limousines shall not receive or discharge passengers in
the roadway, but shall pull up to the right-hand sidewalk or as nearly
as possible thereto, or, in the absence of a sidewalk, to the extreme
right hand side of the road, and there receive or discharge passengers,
except on one-way streets where passengers may be discharged on either
right or left hand sidewalk or at the side of a roadway in the absence
of a sidewalk.
b. No limousine shall be operated about the streets of the borough so
as to solicit passengers or to bring the presence of the limousine
to the attention of prospective passengers.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
a. All vehicles herein required to be licensed, or used or operated
for the carrying of passengers within the scope of this section shall
be automobile sedans with a minimum of three doors, at least two of
which doors shall be for the exclusive use of the passengers. These
automobiles shall at all times be clean and in good repair.
b. No person other than the licensed driver of a passenger of the limousine
shall ride or sit in the compartment of the limousine reserved for
the driver.
[Ord. No. 16-80]
No limousine shall be licensed until an insurance policy or
certificate in lieu thereof shall have been filed with the borough
clerk with liability limits not less than $100,000.00 — $300,000.00
for bodily injury and $10,000.00 for property damage.